Why Soft Skills Training is Necessary for Professionals?
chillibreeze writer — Amitha Venkatesh There are many ongoing discussions within the IT industry on whether newly recruited software engineers require ‘soft skills’ training and whether, it is possible to enhance their soft skills through a couple of hours of training, either in one shot or at regular intervals? Technical abilities may be important to get good assignments in the initial years of one’s career, but when it comes to growing in an organization it is one’s personality that counts, especially on a large platform where people with similar technical expertise, proficiency and competitiveness are vying for promotions. In a country like India, ‘soft skills’ training becomes even more important since the education system does not include personality development anywhere in its stream of academic curricula. Corporate houses are forced to invest more and more on soft skills training in order to groom their employees to present themselves in a better manner and improve their perform
