Some businesses find that their new employees lack in basic interpersonal skills such as lack of ability to work with colleagues as a team . What are the causes and suggest possible solutions.
It is axiomatic that some trades discover that their fresh joiners lack in basic soft skills.
This
is happening because of various reasons. In this
essay an effort is made to find out the real reasons of this
disturbing trend and also
suggest some practical remedies to resolve it.
Of course the first
step is to understand why new employees are deficient in these skills. There are two main reasons behind this
problem
. The conspicuous one is the education system because majority
of schools and colleges concentrate only on improving the academic performance of the students rather than educating them on team work. Suggestion
the majority
As a result
, pupils are unaware of the concept and significance of interpersonal skills such
as team work
and cooperation. Another contributing fact is that, while interview, employers focus solely on technical skills like good qualification and degree. Neither there is exam to prove that any person has these traits or cooperative work done by a team (especially when it is effective)
teamwork
not nor
the firms spare their time and effort on teaching these qualities to the freshers.
Accept comma addition
not, nor
However
, the problem
is not insurmountable; certain steps can help to tackle this
problem
. Firstly
, it is worthwhile to change the grading criteria. To simplify, if the schools give extra marks in participating in school functions or stage programmes then
definitely learners can take part in such
events and can acquire the qualities of teamwork and cooperation. Secondly
, instead
of focusing exclusively on the academic grades of candidates
interviewers must test them from various aspects to judge their true potential. Suggestion
candidate
For instance
, group discussion before an interview can be used to analyse how participants accept others opinion or how they react on
their views. Suggestion
to
Finally
, companies should give instructions to their new employees about interpersonal skills, it also
seems a promising solution of this
problem
.
In conclusion, several factors are responsible for this
issue, but aforementioned steps should be taken to deal with it.Submitted by Gagan on
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