Soft skill is a sociological term which refers to a cluster of personality traits, social graces, facility with language, personal habits, friendliness, optimizing that mark people to varying degrees. In other words, soft skill is a personal skill derived out of life skills that is usually interpersonal, non-specialized and difficult to quantify such as leadership or responsibility.

Skill is the ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance. It is the learned power of doing something or anything competently, to develop with the attitude or the ability. We say people are skilled or proficient on our judgement on the appropriateness of their behavior and choices and the quality of their work.

Soft skills are the bunch of skills which complement to hard skills. Technical knowledge of any subject is considered as hard skills whereas common sense knowledge or general knowledge of anything is soft skill. In the end, for people having the mind set that soft skills and hard skills are independent from each other, they must reconsider. Soft skills and hard skills are no doubt two different things but in order to prosper in today's business world one needs to acquire and utilize both of these skills appropriately and intelligently!! So these essential skills complement each other in the everyday professional world immensely.