The Demand of Employable Soft Skills for the IT Industry: An Empirical Study in the State of Andhra Pradesh

It Industry And Soft Skills

Soft Skills, a life and blood of present-day corporate industry, has become the major pre-requisite for effective and smooth management. Since IT sector has become a place for global, effective and corporate communication, one of the major components of soft skills is not only enabling the interpersonal skill at workplace but also route the flow of information among employees in various levels of organizational activities. With the help of IT revolution and socio-economic developments in the current scenario, the need and significance of communication skills has been increased than ever before (Padhi, 2014). Besides having sound technical knowledge and good communication skills, the present workplaces require skills such as team playing, problem solving, adopting appropriate business etiquette, understanding one’s own emotions and those of others. They decide how quickly and fast you reach the target and succeed in professional career.

However, despite realizing the significance of soft skills, the IT companies are not so happy with the equipped soft skills of Indian graduates. (Padaki, 2015). The inadequacies of such are partly lay with students themselves and partly the institutions from which they are trained. This scenario is making the IT industry to confront with practical challenges in employing the young graduates who, despite having good technical skills, are not well proficient in English communication skills at workplace. As per the NASSCOM’s perspective 2020 study, the industry has already been facing the shortage of employable talent. The multinational corporations (MNC) are investing 12-16 weeks to train the young graduates in both technical and soft skills to bridge the employability gap.