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This document is the introduction to a lecture on soft skills by Dr. Binod Mishra from IIT Roorkee's Department of HSS. It defines soft skills as personality traits and social skills that complement hard/technical skills. It outlines that soft skills include communication, interpersonal, management, and leadership abilities. The document emphasizes that while technical skills may get one a job, soft skills are what allows one to excel. It also notes the need to build soft skills among Indian youth through initiatives like Skill India to improve employability.

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Lec - 01-Introduction To Soft Skills PDF

This document is the introduction to a lecture on soft skills by Dr. Binod Mishra from IIT Roorkee's Department of HSS. It defines soft skills as personality traits and social skills that complement hard/technical skills. It outlines that soft skills include communication, interpersonal, management, and leadership abilities. The document emphasizes that while technical skills may get one a job, soft skills are what allows one to excel. It also notes the need to build soft skills among Indian youth through initiatives like Skill India to improve employability.

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Soft Skills

Lecture 01
Introduction to Soft Skills
Dr. Binod Mishra
Department of HSS, IIT Roorkee

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Soft Skills
 A buzz word all around the world
 An umbrella term for various skills
 Soft Skills complement hard skills
 Soft Skills are people skills

2
Patient : I have pain in my neck, in
my legs, in my back, and I feel weak
and sick.
Doctor : You are suffering from
hypochondria.

3
 Soft Skills can help people come
out of difficult situations and
ensure reassurance and
reliability.

4
Definition
Soft Skills comprise personality traits, social
graces, facility with language, personal habits,
friendliness, and optimism that mark people to
varying degrees.

5
Soft-Skills as Behavioural Skills
o Self-Awareness
o Self-Confidence
o Flexibility
o Persistence
o Perseverance

6
Soft-Skills as People Skills
 Communication Skills
 Interpersonal Skills
 Management Skills
 Leadership
 Team Dynamics

7
Soft-Skills
Technical Competence
makes you eligible but
Soft Skills makes you
Hard-Skills
excel in jobs.

8
Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills
• Hard skills are the technical skills.
• Soft skills are performance skills.
• Hard skills are part of one’s college/university
curriculum.
• Soft skills are a part of continuous learning.

9
Newspaper Reports on Unemployment
• Data emerging from Census 2011 suggest unemployment
rate is high among the better qualified.
(The Hindu, November 7, 2015)

• 23 lakh people want peon’s job in U.P., engineers and


doctors included.
(India News, September 16, 2015)

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Relevance
 Soft Skills ensures better employability.
 Percentage/c.g.p.a. alone not sufficient.
 Bridges the gap between academia and industry.
 Ensures more accountability.

11
An Observation

“We have to think of ways to groom the qualified students in


an effort to make them employable in the industry.”
— Kiran Karnik, Former President, NASSCOM

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Need of the hour
• Serious need to invest and build skills among
the youth
“ a complete overhaul of our education system closely
integrating it with an effective apprenticeship regime”.
— Rituparna Chakrborty, V.P. of Indian Staffing Federation

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Measures
Skill India
Make in India
Start up programme
NPTEL

14
On Success
Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is
reached!
— Swami Vivekananda

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