Soft Skills: An Employability Enabler

Abstract

The present age of digitization demands dynamism from its workforce. To be able to create, innovate and execute well is expected of the manpower being churned out of the knowledge centers. The freshly turned out professional graduates are put on trial for a job and their knowledge, skills and attitude are gauged to see their industry-readiness. Along with technical or domain knowledge, the graduates are assessed on soft skills. The role of soft skills in service economy has surpassed all the realms of wisdom. The present study, conceptual in nature, is an attempt to understand graduates’ awareness about soft skills, their importance, and the impact soft skills have on building their professional career. A major thrust is put on finding out ways and means to develop soft skills for increasing the employability quotient of graduates.