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CATEGORIES OF SKILLS

SKILLS

Hard Skills Soft Skills

Engineering Essential Managerial Leadership Contextual
Skills Skills Skills Skills
Medicine
Law
Chartered Reading Planning Goal Setting Operational Skills in
Accountancy Different Countries/
Psychology Writing Organizing Team Building Regions/Cultures
Etc. Computer Marketing Motivation Skills
Applications
Thinking Skills Managing Risk Taking
Negative People
Analyzing Skills Assertive Skills Formulating Vision
Conflict
Management
Skills

Figure 1.1
Skills and their types

The Expert Panel on Skills, in its report on ‘Skills and Opportunities’ in
the Knowledge Economy (March 2000), divided skills into five categories.
They include the technical or hard skills referred above, and then four
categories of ‘soft skills’. According to the panel, soft skills encompass the
following:

Essential Skills

Each and every student must possess the essential skills in order to strive
and to survive in the competitive world. It is needless to mention that reading
and writing are the most essential and fundamental soft skills through
which all the students acquire competence. The onus lies on the teachers to
help the students develop their potential for thinking, analyzing and devel-
oping problem-solving skills. Exercises, practice situations, and role-plays
that address these essential soft skills in addition to regular curriculum will
be instrumental in developing the personality of the students.

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