In this highly competitive job market, employers seek for candidates with highly desired professional traits like teamwork, dependability, adaptability, problem solving, and communication skills. Hard skills like subject knowledge are essential for students to get placed in their dream job. However, it is soft skills that help them excel their job. No one can teach you how to be polite, but a basic knowledge of social etiquette and professional protocol can go a long way in the corporate world.75% of long-term job success depends on soft skills.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”. Soft skills training plays a major role in boosting enthusiasm and honing attitude in students.

The soft skill training helped the students to overcome the fear faced in public speaking and it also enhanced their communication and leadership skills through group discussion and role play. Savitribai Phule Pune University introduced this soft skill program for tribal and rural students at T.Y. B.A/B.Com/ B. Sc level.