The document emphasizes the importance of soft skills for success in personal and professional life, linking them to concepts like emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills. It outlines the need for self-awareness, opportunity acknowledgment, and realistic aspiration planning to achieve desired outcomes. Additionally, it highlights the necessity of combining academic knowledge with soft skills to foster lifelong learning and employability.

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9. Soft Skills are strategic to be successful
in personal and professional life
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10. Soft Skills correlates with
some terms : Life Skills,
Emotional Intelligence,
Quotients, Social Skills, and
Interpersonal Skills.
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12. WHY NEED TO SOFT SKILLS ?
SELF • An awareness of the characteristics that define the
person one is and wants to become.
OPPORTUNITY • An awareness of the possibilities that exist,
the demands they make and the rewards and satisfactions they
offer.
ASPIRATIONS • The ability to make realistic choices and plans
based on sound information and on self– opportunity
alignment.
RESULTS • The ability to review outcomes, plan and take
action to implement decisions and aspirations, especially at
points of transition
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13. In order to SOAR students need two
things:
Academic Roots – Discipline based
knowledge and understanding
Academic Wings – The ability to enhance
that knowledge and understanding with
awareness (self and others), critical
thinking, reflective practice.
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14. The specificity of Soft
Skills
 Discipline
Placement / employability
preparation
Lifelong learners
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