Conference paper 2017

A soft approach towards gaining employability in IT professionals

IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Conference · Vol. 2017-December · pp. 299-303
Abstract

IT industry is a knowledge based industry where human capital is considered as vital factor that enable organisation to gain competitive advantage and calls for necessity to develop workforce through enhanced employability. Thus employability links with the individual performance and satisfaction, organisation's growth and economic well being of the nation. Though there are many factors that affect employability, in this paper we are discussing influence of soft skills on employability in IT professionals. © 2017 IEEE.

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employability soft skills IT Industry

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Human capitals employability Personnel Soft skills Knowledge based systems Competition Well being IT professional IT industry Competitive advantage Knowledge based Individual performance
Author Affiliations
Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Prayagraj, UP, India
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