Role of soft skills for management graduates in Career Advancement- A critical review

  Saumya Shirina

Possessing good soft skills is important, both for personal and professional development. These skills are also highly sought after by employers while recruiting management graduates. Soft skills courses in management education help in enhancing the employability skills of graduates. Skill shortage remains one of the major constraints and impedes the growth of the Indian economy. Effective soft skills make a graduate more employable and build a necessary attitude for success. Apart from technical skills, soft skills possessed by an individual, are identified as competencies for new hires as a perquisite in the recruitment process and ensures chances of smooth career progression. From this review paper, readers can fortify their historical understanding of ‘job readiness from both the employer and graduate standpoint. Also, the paper identifies soft skills which are considered trending as desired employability skills for business graduates. The critical review done ascertains how management graduates can learn and hone the necessary soft skills as they make the transition from the campus to the corporate.

Keywords- Soft skills, Communication skills, Management graduates, Career Success, Workplace success

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1903080
Page Number(s) - 480-485
Pubished in - Volume 7 | Issue 3 | August 2019
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Saumya Shirina,   "Role of soft skills for management graduates in Career Advancement- A critical review", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.7, Issue 3, pp.480-485, August 2019, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1903080.pdf