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Second ‘ A’ is for Ability
             without which,  nothing can    often teachable, measurable  and   success of organizations as well
                       be done              easy to check by asking equations   as individuals. Sometime attitu-
                                            and through a test, etc. The deg-   des are also considered as soft
            To perform any sort of a job or   ree/professional/vocational certif-  skills because these are closely
            task (s) people should have some   icate is a fine testimony to prove   related. Skills can be distin-
            sort of “Ability”, in other word   that they have gained a reasona-  guished further as “Generic Ski-
            “Capability”  (physical  and  men-   ble level  of  hard  skills  in  their   lls” and “Specific Skills”. Exam-
            tal). Ability is all about skills and   respective areas.       ples of generic skills; English
            knowledge that are required to                                  language skills (because it’s the
            perform a particular task (s) or   Soft skills on the other hand,   working language in most of the
            job.  This is often discussed as   non-technical,  less  measurable,   private sector corporation), IT
            “Hard Skills” and “Soft Skills”.  and attributed to social skills.   literacy, basic numerical skills,
                                            Examples of soft skills are inter-  basic analytical skills etc. Exam-
            Hard skills refer to the technical   personal skills, communication    ples of specific skills;  Working
            aspects/techniques/ technical kn-   skills, team skills, and leadership   knowledge of a special software
            owledge that require performing   skills etc. Both ‘Hard Skills’ and   package, operating knowledge of
            a particular task(s)/job. These are   ‘Soft Skills’ are vital for the    special machine etc.
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