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Many employers also test the prior learning of hard skills before recruiting employees and impart trainings to its employees to refresh their hard skills to do the existing job more efficiently or equip them with additional hard skills required to take up future jobs. However, both hard skills & soft skills are required in every job though the degree may vary with level / position. Hard skills are required for performing technical tasks in a job and Soft skills are required for working in team and creating a congenial work environment. More of hard skills are required at operational level and as one moves higher up in his career, he requires more of soft skills to think critically, set goals, formulate strategy / action plan, organize, collaborate, connect, communicate, manage team, solve problems, get things done, analyze information and review for continual improvement. Most employers look for candidates with hybrid skills i.e. combination of both soft skills and hard skills. However, employers may prefer candidates with better soft skills if the technical skills are equal. Today there is a paradoxical situation where on the one hand young men and women entering the labour market are looking for jobs; on the other hand industries are complaining of unavailability of appropriately skilled manpower. Enormous skills gap exists between what industries demand based on the rapid economic growth and the skills that young people acquire through education and training.