Database of Hard Skills (240 Entries)

Hard skills are abilities that can be tested and transferred. These are the types of skills that you can acquire with training as opposed to soft skills that require direct experience.

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Project Skills (41)

Marketing (29)

Operations (16)

Quality Assurance (26)

Corporate (26)

Science (23)

A/B Testing	Academic Analysis
Acceptance Criteria	Accounting
Accounting Software	Administrative Skills
Algorithms	Analytics
Application Support	Audience Analysis
Audit Preparation	Back-End Development
Behavioral Analysis	Benchmarking
Big Data	Blockchain
Brand Measurement	Brand Strategy
Budget Management	Budgeting
Business Analysis	Business Case Development
Business Development	Business Intelligence (BI)
Business Planning	Business Process Modeling
Capability Analysis	Capacity Analysis
Capacity Planning	Change Control
Chemical Analysis	Cloud Automation
Cloud Computing	Code Reviews
Coding	Comparative Analysis
Competitive Analysis	Computational Analysis
Configuration Management	Content Management Systems
Continuous Improvement	Continuous Testing
Contract Management	Cost Analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis	Critical Path Analysis
Cryptography	Customer Analysis
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)	Customer Segmentation
Cybersecurity	Data Analysis
Data Architecture	Data Auditing
Data Collection	Data Entry
Data Mining	Data Modeling
Data Profiling	Data Protection
Data Quality	Data Reconciliation
Data Transformation	Data Validation
Data Visualization	Data Warehousing
Data Wrangling	Databases
Defect Prevention	Defect Reporting
Defect Tracking	Demand Forecasting
DevOps	Digital Advertising
Digital Marketing	Earned Value Analysis
Edge Computing	Encryption
Endpoint Security	Engagement Analysis
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)	Enterprise Software
Environmental Analysis	Equipment Maintenance
Event Planning	Expense Reporting
Experimental Design	Feedback Analysis
Field Research	Financial Controls
Financial Reporting	Forecasting
Frameworks & APIs	Front-End Development
Full Stack Development	Gap Analysis
Generative AI	Governance Frameworks
Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)	HTML/CSS
Hypothesis Testing	IT Compliance
IT Governance	IT Operations
IT Service Management (ITSM)	ITIL Framework
Impact Analysis	Incident Analysis
Incident Management	Infrastructure Automation
Infrastructure Provisioning	Infrastructure as Code
Instrument Calibration	Inventory Analysis
Inventory Management	JavaScript & TypeScript
KPI Development	Laboratory Techniques
Lead Qualification	Lean Methodologies
Lessons Learned Analysis	Literature Review
Logistics Analysis	Machine Learning
Manual Testing	Market Research
Marketing Analytics	Marketing Automation
Marketing Operations	Marketing Strategy
Mathematical Modeling	Mathematics
Media Tools	Meeting Management
Mobile Marketing	Multivariate Analysis
Network Management	Network Protocols
Network Security	NoSQL
Office Software Proficiency	Operating Systems
Operations Analysis	Patch Management
Performance Management	Performance Testing
Policy Development	Predictive Analytics
Price Analysis	Pricing Analysis
Problem Management	Process Automation
Procurement	Product Development
Product Management	Production Scheduling
Productivity Software	Program Management
Programming Languages	Project Analysis
Project Audit	Project Governance
Project Integration Management	Project Management
Project Management Methodologies	Project Management Software
Project Oversight	Project Planning
Project Portfolio Management	Project Reporting
Project Risk Management	Project Scheduling
Qualitative Analysis	Quality Analysis
Quality Assurance	Quality Auditing
Quality Control	Quality Improvement
Quality Management	Quality Metrics
Quality Planning	Quality Reporting
Quality Standards	Quantitative Analysis
Record Keeping	Recruitment
Regression Analysis	Regression Testing
Regulatory Compliance	Regulatory Reporting
Report Writing	Requirements Gathering
Research Methodology	Research Skills
Resource Analysis	Retargeting
Revenue Management	Risk Analysis
Risk Assessments	Root Cause Analysis
SQL	Safety Management
Safety Protocols	Sales Analysis
Sales Automation Platforms	Sales Forecasting
Sales Operations	Sales Planning
Scheduling	Scientific Writing
Scope Management	Scripting
Security Architecture	Security Protocols
Sensitivity Analysis	Sentiment Analysis
Server Configuration	Service Level Management
Service Management	Software Architecture
Software Design	Software Testing
Stakeholder Analysis	Statistical Methods
Statistics	Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Survey Design	System Administration
Task Prioritization	Technical Proficiency
Test Automation	Test Cases
Test Orchestration	Test Planning
Time Series Analysis	Trend Analysis
UI Development	Unit Testing
User Acceptance Testing	Variance Analysis
Vendor Management	Workflow Analysis
Workflow Automation	Workflow Management
Workflow Optimization

What are Hard Skills?

Hard skills are abilities that can be tested with some accuracy. This can give you hard proof that you know something. Generally speaking, skills that have a widely accepted standard test or certification are viewed as hard skills.

Definition of Hard Skills

Abilities and knowledge that can be acquired with standard training and tested with standard tests.

What are Soft Skills?

Hard skills are primarily contrasted with soft skills that require a process of direct experience and practice to improve. These involve tacit knowledge that you can't learn from a book. For example, playing a musical instrument.

Credentialism

Credentialism is a tendency to require hard proof of skills such as degrees and certifications. This can go quite far where people start to view their career as a series of certifications without much concern for producing business results or acquiring direct experience such as leadership responsibilities.

Hard Skills vs Talent

Many abilities are viewed as hard skills when in fact there are great differences in talent between people that can't be easily measured. For example, there is a great difference in the capacity of system architects to solve real world problems but this profession is increasingly viewed in terms of certifications that do not necessarily correlate to this talent.

Next read: Talents

Database of Hard Skills (240 Entries)

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