My Opinion Regarding Hard Skills and Soft Skills when I was an Undergraduate Student

Fajar Purnama
5 min readDec 23, 2020

Regarding soft skills and hard skills for me, both are important. The most important thing for me is open minded, which means accepting something regardless of background and status, always being prejudiced, and accepting all differences. Roughly it means being able to accept other people’s opinions, to be able to hang out with anyone, but still hold to our beliefs. If we are open minded, then softskill and hardskill will encourage each other.

According to my definition, soft skills are personalities with good social skills, cooperation, discipline, and so on. Hard skills are one’s own ability to do something, for example being able to master course material, be able to assemble electronic devices, be able to do research, and other abilities.

To be honest, at first I went to college, majored in electrical engineering in 2010, I have little soft skills. Until now I was heavy on hard skills, more independent from others. One example during college, where friends prefer to discuss to complete assignments, I chose to work alone first. But that doesn’t mean I shut myself off from others. Most of the time I can work it out myself, and well. My friends knew this, so I was asked to help them with their assignments. What I do is not give them my assignment but teach them how to…

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