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Soft Skills in relation to Employability Skills as Survival Skills:
“To Meet the Challenges of Tomorrow”
Manish Sharma
M. Pharm, Ist Sem.,
Pharmaceutical Management & Regulatory Affairs (PMRA)
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Agenda
Introduction
Soft Skills
Employability
Employability Skills
Employability Skills Map
Skill Gap
Strategies to fill the Gap
Approaches towards practice
Conclusion
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Introduction
• We can not survive longer with food lacking of
nutrients similarly employees can not survive
longer on his job without the employability
skills.
• The level of skills demanded by employers had
increased, mainly because:
a) higher levels of technology,
b) increasing competition, and
c) increasing concerns about quality of
products.
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Soft Skills
• Soft skills is relating to a person's "EQ"
(Emotional Intelligence Quotient), the cluster of
personality traits, social graces,
communication, language, personal habits,
friendliness, and optimism that characterize
relationships with other people.
• soft skills relate to a person's ability to interact
effectively with coworkers and customers and
are broadly applicable both in and outside the
workplace.
• Thus the soft skills become complementary to
employability skills.
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Employability
Employability is about work and the
ability to be employed, such as:
The ability to gain initial employment;
The ability to maintain employment
and make ‘transitions’ between jobs
and roles within the same organization
to meet new job requirements, and
The ability to obtain new employment
if required, i.e. to be independent in
the labor market by being willing and
able to manage their own employment
transitions between and within
organizations.
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Employability
• A set of skills, knowledge and personal attributes
that make an individual more likely to secure and be
successful in their chosen occupation(s) to the
benefit of themselves, the workforce, the community
and the economy.
• Employability goes well beyond the simplistic notion
of key skills, and is evidenced in the application of a
mix of personal qualities and beliefs,
understandings, skilful practices and the ability to
reflect productively on experience.
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Employability Skills
“A set of achievements, understandings and
personal attributes that make individuals more likely
to gain employment and to be successful in their
chosen occupations”.
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Employability Skills Map Key Competencies Employability Skills
Communicate Ideas & Information Communication
Work with others & in teams Teamwork
Solve Problems Problem solving
Use Technology Technology
Collect, Analyse & Organise Information Planning and Organising
Adaptation, Identifying opportunities,
Generating options; and Initiating
innovative solutions.
Initiative and Enterprise
Plan & Organise activities Self-management
Willing to learn in any setting – on and
off the job. Learning
Use Mathematical Techniques & Ideas Contained within descriptions of several of
other Employability Skills 8
Skill Gap
• The difference between the skills needed on the job and
those possessed by applicants, are called as the skills-gap.
• Skill gap is of real concern to human resource managers
and business owners looking to hire competent
employees.
• Employers need reliable, responsible workers who can
solve problems and who have the social skills and
attitudes to work together with other workers.
• The problem is that technology is changing everyday but
the study is remaining the same. Students get more
theoretical knowledge and less practical application.
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Skill Gap
• Failure to equip young people with the job
readiness skills critical to job success is
equivalent to placing employability barriers
in their path. Thus employability becomes
visible when graduates demonstrate the
ability to adapt and contribute productively
to the work environment.
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Strategies to fill the Gap
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Through academic study
Students need to become aware that the learning process
they go through during higher education has value in other
contexts. Writing a dissertation, for example, involves using
the skills of research, analysis and time management, as
well as overall planning and project management. Similarly,
many students have to make presentations throughout their
academic career - a valuable skill in many work situations.
There might also be other contexts (for example, discussion
and seminar/tutorial groups related to a student’s course)
which would provide opportunities for developing a range
of employability skills, and these opportunities should be
highlighted to students.
Strategies to fill the Gap
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Through work experience
Vacation work and industrial placements provide an ideal
opportunity to develop useful skills. Language students
on their year abroad should be encouraged to reflect upon
employability skills developed or enhanced, eg showing
initiative, demonstrating resilience, learning in depth
about another culture.
Approaches towards practice
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The “TRICK” to employability skills
Truthfulness
Not doing anything illegal
Telling the truth / being honest
Reliability
Showing up and being on time
Integrity
Doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do.
Communication Skills
Written, verbal, image
sKills
What can we do?
Conclusion
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“To be employed is to be at risk,
to be employable is to be secure.” Mere academic abilities alone will not be adequate. What
is essential is something beyond academic domain
such as communication skills, problem solving skills,
communication skills which are known as employability
skills. When applicants possess these skills then it
becomes easier for employers to train other technical
skills easily, both educational institutions and industry
should work together for enhancing employability skills
as it is rightly said that you need to clap with both
hands to get the results.
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