Revisiting Soft Skills for New Work Force of Millenials in the Digital Era

Abstract

India with its biggest asset of a majority of young population in its demographic divide faces an obstacle of human development with a skill deficit. With an increasing economic growth there exists a need to develop and impart trainings on skill development for increasing employability.
The Research Objectives constituted a General Objective ‘To study and evaluate the growing importance of essential soft skills in enhancing employability ratio by professional B-Schools in Delhi/NCR’.
From an Employers perspective the objective was ‘To examine the relationship between management students’ skills and their employability.’
Primary and Secondary Research have both been applied for the research study. Primary research is done through Descriptive Research using statistical method and Primary research is done through Interviews. The participants include samples from the population of Employers. There was a total of 50 Employers. The Research Technique was a questionnaire as a tool and the multiple regression test was used in the study. The results were significant and there was a positive significant impact of various skills classified as theoretical knowledge, practical knowledge, technical skills, soft skills and other skills on employability. Employers have shown that there is a growing importance of soft skills in today’s environment. The study has important implications: Corporates and organizations can adopt many of these experiential digital platform techniques to provide a more real life working scenario to integrate learning with skills required on the job. Employers can use the same approach for educating employees for soft skills.