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Key Insights
Slovak respondents show unanimous support for the importance of soft skills, with 100% agreeing that soft skills are equally important as hard skills, and 60% strongly agreeing.
There is complete consensus (100%) that employers should create more opportunities for promoting soft skill development at work.
Educational integration of soft skills receives the strongest support, with 100% agreeing soft skills should be included in educational curricula, and 80% strongly agreeing—among the highest rates of strong agreement across all countries.
All respondents (100%) recognize the workplace benefits of soft skills, with 70% strongly agreeing that well-developed soft skills benefit the work environment as a whole.
Exceptional Consensus
Slovakia is the only country showing complete consensus across all soft skills statements, with 100% agreement (and no undecided or disagreement responses) on all four statements.
This unanimous support for soft skills—across their importance, employer promotion, educational integration, and workplace benefits—is unique among the countries analyzed.
The particularly strong support for educational integration (80% strongly agreeing) suggests special emphasis on formally teaching soft skills in academic settings.
This exceptional consensus indicates a workplace culture with clear, shared values regarding the importance of soft skills across all contexts.
Opinions on Soft Skills
Level of agreement with statements about soft skills among Slovak respondents
Simple-Survey
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Project manager:
Franziska Görmar
IfL - Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
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This project is supported by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund.
Find more information about the x-Inno Radar project on the Interreg CE projectwebsite.
x-Inno Radar is a project of: 
Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria Gmbh, 
The Regional Chamber of Commerce of the Karlovy Vary Region, 
Padova Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture, 
Creative Industry Košice, n. o., 
BSC, Business support centre, ltd., Kranj, 
Regional Development Agency in Bielsko-Biała, 
Stebo Competence Centre Community Developmentm, 
Association of Cultural and Creative Industries Chemnitz and Region (Creative Chemnitz), Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography – Germany, Otelo Cooperative