 hard skills refers to the technical skills or the job related knowledge that you need in order to perform your job. So it's not just knowing a skill like SQL or Excel or Tableau, it's knowing how to use those. So data cleaning, data manipulation, data collection, data visualization, all of those things. On the other hand, soft skills are things like your personal traits and characteristics, things that make you you. These are things that are often linked to your personality. So things like your communication style, how driven you are, your critical thinking skills and things like that.