Direction: It consists of two statements, one labelled as ‘Statement (I)’ and ors as ‘Statement (II)’. You are to examine se two statements carefully and select answer using codes given below:

Statement (I): Increasingly, employers have generally tended to expect engineers to possess both hard skills and soft skills.

Statement (II): Soft skills mean knowledge of software.

Soft Skills:

• Soft skills are those which require interpersonal adaptability among different kinds of people, problems, and situations.
• For example, leadership and communication are interpersonal skills that successful engineers employ on a regular basis.
• Soft skills are subtle behaviors and communication styles that help make a work environment or interaction with another person easier to manage.
• Soft skills are not concerned with the knowledge of the concerned subjects or software for that matter. (Statement 2 is false)

Hard Skills:

• Hare the technical skills we use each day to perform our job.
• Some examples would be our computer skills or procedural knowledge we apply in our job. 
• Hence to compete in today’s competitive scenario, knowledge of both the skills is expected of an engineer. (Statement 1 is true)