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Why Soft Skills are important?

Soft skills are non-technical skills that relate to how you work. They include how you interact with colleagues, how you solve problems, and how you manage your work. Soft skills include the personal attributes, personality traits, and communication abilities needed not only for success on the job but also to excel in academics. Soft skills include interpersonal (people) skills, communication skills, listening skills, time management and empathy, among others.

The question people ask is why do I need soft skills I have a job! Or I need to get more certifications done on technical skills to get a higher paid jobs. The answer is, yes technical skills are a qualifier or serve as a baseline and yes they are very important to do the job. But to get in the job or even sustain the job both places you need soft skills such as communication skill and stress management respectively.

So if you are a school student, college goer, Graduate finding a job, professional tying for promotion we all need soft skills some or the other way.

Look at the figures below, research conducted by The Wall Street Journal & Deloitte Access Economics

0 %
of all jobs will be soft skills incentive by 2030
0 %
of executive say Soft Skills are equally or more important than technical skills
0 %
of executive says that it is difficult to find people with soft skills

Nearly 1.5 million students graduate every year in India from different streams. But the respective industries do not generate jobs equivalent to the number of graduates every year. It becomes a tough job for all of them to get jobs as they all have to compete for lesser ratio of jobs. As all of them hold a same set of technical skills, recruiters’ then eye of soft skills or non-technical skills that the candidates possesses such as; presentation skills, ability to work in team, professionalism etc. thus skilling up in is definitely acts as an added advantage and given you an edge over other candidates to get shortlisted!

Advantages of Soft Skills

  • Influencer: You always have an edge over others and would experience the power of being able to influence ideas & plan in a group/ office meeting/ activities.
  • People skills: You will be more capable while interacting effectively with others in the workplace setup, deal more empathetically with subordinates, colleagues, and superiors. You would be better at handling groups
  • Clarity: You will be able to express your point of view and ideas very clearly without any inhibitions at meeting and group discussions. You will be better able to understand yourself and also establish boundaries assertively.
  • Self – confidence: once you start investing in self, and feel oneself growing. Your self – confidence will definitely increase to enhance your overall performance at academics and work.

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