Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 12

A review on soft skills - an important key for employability in the "shift to a service driven economy" era

1Professor, Department of Finance & Marketing, Faculty of Commerce, Management & law, Teerthanker Mahaveer Institute of Management and Technology, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Email Id-vipin555@rediffmail.com

Online Published on 03 February, 2022.

Abstract

In recent times, the change from a manufacturing to a service economy has raised the importance of soft skills between graduates in general, and IT (Information Technology) in particular. Although market requires a decade ago were mostly centered on a candidate's specialist knowledge, there is now a greater emphasis on soft skills. Employers’ complaints about the dearth of soft skills among IT graduates prompted this study, which maps the true market soft-skills needs. A total of2000 IT classified adverts relating to IT experts were analyzed as part of the study. Human contact skills were found to be in high demand (41.2 percent of the soft skills ads), common (or general) skills were second (22.8 percent of the ads), task interaction was third (20.2 percent of the ads), and organizational skills were indeed the least sought (41.2 percent of the ads) (15.8%).

Keywords

Soft Skills, Changes, Behavior and Information Technology