Soft skills – A vital aspect in career growth
Soft skills is a sociological term relating to a person’s “EQ” ( Emotional Intelligent Quotient), the cluster of personality traits, social graces, language, communication, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that characterize relationship with other people. It is often said, hard skills are required to receive an interview call but soft skills are needed to get or retain the job or for further career growth. Hence, soft skills complement hard skills. Hard skills are specific to certain type of task or activity, where as soft skills are broadly applicable. Whether you are a businessman, a corporate executive, a student looking for a job, a young lady in the front desk, everyone wants to make it big and successful in his / her activity. There is no questioning the fact that Indians are very competent with technical skills but the critical question is will this suffice for them to be globally competent? The wide rivers of culture, language, and environment can only be crossed w...