id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-591 Skill - Wikipedia .html text/html 1065 182 63 A joint ASTD and U.S. Department of Labor study showed that through technology, the workplace is changing, and identified 16 basic skills that employees must have to be able to change with it.[1] Three broad categories of skills are suggested and these are technical, human, and conceptual.[2] The first two can be substituted with hard and soft skills, respectively.[3] Hard skills[edit] Labor skills[edit] Main article: Skill (labor) Life skills[edit] Main article: Life skills People skills[edit] Main article: People skills A British definition is "the ability to communicate effectively with people in a friendly way, especially in business."[9] The term is not listed yet in major US dictionaries.[10] Social skills[edit] Main article: Social skills The process of learning such skills is called socialization. Soft skills[edit] Main article: Soft skills Retrieved 28 April 2018.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Skills. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-591.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-591.txt