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Soft Skills: An Integral Part of Technical Education

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Soft skills also known as social or people skills is the interpersonal quality that a student should possess; it is a very important attribute for the engineers to get into the job. They have become the integral part of one’s life in their workplace. It is something that one cannot learn by any training program or in the classroom. It can only be acquired through education, work, and life experiences. The present study deals with the soft skills like communication skills, positive attitude, teamwork, leadership quality, presentation skills, and interviews skills.

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Srivastava, N., Kuri, M. (2021). Soft Skills: An Integral Part of Technical Education. In: Goar, V., Kuri, M., Kumar, R., Senjyu, T. (eds) Advances in Information Communication Technology and Computing. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 135. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5421-6_19

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