SOFT-SKILLS are basically a cluster of personality traits, social graces, language skill, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that mark people to varying degrees.Soft skills are essentially people skills , the non-technical, intangible, personality-specific skills that determine your strengths as a leader, listener, negotiator, and conflict mediator. "Hard" skills, on the other hand, are more along the lines of what might appear on your resume -- your education, experience and level of expertise.Soft skills complement hard skills.In a layman's language Soft-skills mean the abilities of a person to deal with different people in different situations in a nice way, handle difficult task easily, have sense of responsibility and give the best performance in any situation.Why employers ask for them?Employers value soft skills, because research suggests that they are just as good an indicator of job performance as traditional job qualifications or hard skills. One recent study, for example, found that personality measures like conscientiousness and agreeability were equally important predictors of work success as cognitive ability and work accuracy. The knowledge of Soft-skills is an extra qualification in today's world. Equiping oneself with Soft-Skills means wearing a jetpack and flying in the sky.In true sense Soft-skills consummate our conventional deficient institutional education and it polishes our knowledge and enhances our self-esteem and multiply our abilities to perform better. A person who has been trained in Soft-Skills becomes an expert at "Bettering the Best" .The commonly known soft-skills are * Effective comminication skill * Art of presentation * Art of negotiation * Sense of responsibility *Emotioanl intelligence * Motivational speaking *stress management *Conflict management * Sense of humour * Internet skills * Time management etc.