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Skill Training for Skill Development

Skill

According to www.businessdictionary.com, a skill is an ability and capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic, and sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carryout complex activities or job functions involving many areas. If ideas are involved, the skill is called cognitive skill, if things are involved, the skill is known as technical skill and if people are involved, the skill is termed as interpersonal skills.

Skill Training

Every activity performed by an individual requires a certain level of skill to achieve the desired success in that activity. Merely possessing the knowledge about that activity is not sufficient to gain an employment. The skill to perform that activity effectively is more desirable and is preferred by most of the employers as it reduces the need for the employer to invest his time and resources in making the individual ready to start the activity immediately. According to www.businessdictionary.com, vocational training is the training which focuses on the

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