DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FOUNDATION SKILL
SOFT SKILLS
For Engineering students, excelling in soft skills are just important as technical skills. Soft skills are non-technical skills which are rudimentary for every profession. Soft Skills are strategic to be successful in personal and professional life then is essential for the students when they try to obtain job. The interviewers generally prefer graduates, taking more in consideration their Soft Skills than their Hard Skills. Soft skills come out as big complement to the candidate’s hard skill and technical ability. Soft skills are more focused towards a candidate’s personality rather than estimating a candidate based on marks, qualification, and experience. They exhibit practical knowledge of a candidate which surpasses all qualifications. Soft skills are indicated abilities such as social aptitudes, language, and communication capability, friendliness, team-spirit, leadership qualities and other personality traits that characterize relationships between people.
As an initiative to familiarize the first-year students with soft skills, A foundational Soft skills Training was offered to the first year students.
The expected outcome of the programme is the development of the four different skills of language. Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Skills are given equal importance. Students were trained on various soft skill oriented activities such as self-introduction, public speaking, role play, group discussion, Team work etc. In addition to soft skills, activities on personality development and building self esteem were also conducted. The objective of this training is to help students overcome communication barriers and groom their personality.
