Dear Aspirant, the interpersonal skills are the integral part of the personality of any person or professional. Interpersonal skills are life skills which we use to interact with others or communicate with others as individual or in a group. People who have worked on developing interpersonal skills are very successful in their personal and professional life. Now a days the employers also hire those personals who have good interpersonal skills.
Interpersonal skills are not just important in the work place but our personal and social life can be better by improving interpersonal skills. People with good interpersonal skills are considered to be cool, calm, confident, optimistic and charismatic, because these are the qualities which appeal and endearing others.


Since you are a zoologist, and you have interact with many people such as colleagues, students, clients and superiors. With a good interpersonal skills you can easy understand their views and on the other hand you can easily transmit your views to others. The interpersonal skills are known as life skills, social skills, communication skills, soft skills and peoples skills.
Here are the common interpersonal skills;
1. Verbal communication skills; how we say and what we say
2. Non verbal communication skills; we do not say word but our body language conveys the meaning.
3. Listening skills; how we interpret the verbal and non verbal message of others
4. Negotiation; working with others to come to mutually agreeably solution