Human Skills as Essential Skills: Preparing Job Seekers Who Were Skilled through Alternative Routes for Inclusion in the Future Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-42
Author(s):  
EBONY BERTORELLI ◽  
MINNAR XIE
Keyword(s):  
Job Seekers ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
Essential Skills ◽  
Alternative Routes

scholarly journals The Employability Skills Needed To Face the Demands of Work in the Future: Systematic Literature Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 595-603
Author(s):  
Nuryake Fajaryati ◽  
Muhammad Akhyar ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Work Demands ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Team Working ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
The Future ◽  
Three Stages

AbstractThe qualified human resources with high competitiveness and employability skills are needed to face the era of technological disruption, but employers find a lack of expertise among job seekers. Insufficient skills are related to the issue of education quality. This study aims to identify the employers’ employability skills needed in the career field and the way to integrate it into the instructional process. The research was conducted through Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and mapping approach that consisted of three stages: planning, conducting, and reporting. The literature reviews in this research were derived from Science direct, Springer and IEEE as the main references. The results from the analysis in the literature review showed that employability skills are needed in relation to the work demands in the future according to the employers covering communication, team working, problem solving, and technological skills. The implementation of employability skills in the instructional process is to integrate them into the classroom for all subjects.

Proposal of Future-Applied Conventional Technology

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koji Kuroda ◽  
Hiroyuki Hamada
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Earth Metal ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Technology Study ◽  
Hand Tools ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Conventional Technology ◽  
Human Sensibility ◽  
Human Skills

Japan is geopolitically blessed with natural grace such as beautiful four seasons, abundant forest, fruitful earth and fresh water. And it seems that it has induced the deep trust between nature and human and has cultivated the Japanese unique culture which harmonizes nature with human sensibility. The origin of handmade technology in Japan dates back to the Jomon period more than 10,000 years ago. The Jomon potteries excavated were made by utilizing the technologies of kneading clay with water and sintering by fire, and some of them were discovered to have the lacquer coatings on their surfaces extracted from plants. The conventional technology would be created by our predecessors who had the sophisticated sensitivity and the excellent imagination cultivated with the careful observation of nature behavior. The technology was handed down to today through various historical changes in response to the diverse values of the individual era. It can be considered that the Japanese conventional technology is the nature friendly cultural asset co-created by nature and human through the long-term environmental changes more than 10000 years. Future-applied conventional technology is the most reliable technology study to develop the future and to hand over the advanced value to the next generation.In this study, we scrutinized the related theme studied by Future-Applied Conventional Technology Center in Kyoto Institute of Technology, in order to extract the engineering element inherent in the conventional technologies and classify into common elements and specific elements for each technology. From the view point of nature and human relation, engineering elements were extracted comprehensively about the main materials, the auxiliary materials, the human sensibility, the hand tools and the human skills. The main materials and the auxiliary materials were classified into “wood, fire, earth, metal, water” according to the old Eastern thought “the five elements theory” which constitute nature, and animal-derived materials in addition. The human sensibility elements were extracted about the material evaluation, the dynamic process observation and the finished degree evaluation and classified into five senses “visual, auditory, tactile, taste, smell”, and the other sense such as fitness feeling with clothes or accessories. The hand tools were listed such as brush, trowel, spatula, scissors and hammer with the features of usage. The human skills were extracted about each material manipulating process comprehensively and classified into common elements and specific elements, by considering the features respectively. With applying this study as a guideline for the innovation of the future technology harmonized with nature and human, it would be expected to promote variety of researches of the conventional technology and to develop the future technology for the modern cutting-edge field, by feeling the importance of the engineering elements and their relationship study inherent in the conventional technology.

scholarly journals Developing design literacy for social agency

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miikka J. LEHTONEN ◽  
JiaYing CHEW
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Social Agency ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Initial Analysis ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
The Future ◽  
Essential Skills

Preparing a workforce that is well-equipped with the skills and knowledge to navigate the complexities of our global human society is a key responsibility of design and higher education. Extant research has advocated design as one of the essential skills to master in the future, and this design literacy has been claimed to be a critical factor in creating innovations and new solutions towards transforming our societies. To explore how non-designers become more design literate, in this paper we present findings from a study looking at how multidisciplinary student teams develop their design literacy in an action-oriented course setting. Based on our initial analysis, blending the boundaries between universities and the surrounding society positively contributes towards developing design literacy. This, in turn, has pedagogical implications as well as increases our understanding on how design travels to other disciplinary domains.

scholarly journals A Study On Perception Of Business Students On The Future Job Market: A Case Study Of Umma University

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (04) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salah Abdirahman Farah ◽  
Hussein Abdi Ali
Keyword(s):  
Business Students ◽  
The Other ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Market ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Business Courses ◽  
Gainful Employment ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Future

The perception of future country’s labor is important to be studied. The way they perceive the market in general and their future employers in particular cannot be wished away. The world has become very dynamic and so the employers. The needs of the market changes with the influence of so many factors among them the dynamism of technology. Students join courses they perceive important for them in one way or the other. One major factor why the youth pursue courses is to benefit out of it through gainful employment. Employers on the other hand are complaining about universities churning out half-baked graduates that can hardly cope with the stringent needs of the market. That the graduates are not productive and what they have being trained on is not relevant to the needs of specific jobs. This has led to many employers organizing short trainings for their new recruits. In light of the above, the study sought to understand the perception of business students towards the future job market. It found out that close to two-thirds of business students have high expectations in terms of salaries and other benefits. This makes business courses being pursued by many students. Very few of the students have less expectations. More than half of the respondents are for the opinion that they will get a job during their first six months of graduation. High grades, good communication skills and having confidence are the major preferences of employers according to the research. The major causes of unemployment among the youth are lack of creation of job opportunities which has led to tribalism and nepotism in employment. This has locked out many qualified job seekers. Majority of business students prefer searching for a job rather than creating job opportunities themselves. A lot has to be done in order to streamline the courses offered by universities in order to cater for the needs of the market. There should be creation of awareness among the youth so that they prepare themselves for these needs. With these, both the students and their future employers will benefit and hence greater productivity.

Essential Skills for the Future

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Verga
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Essential Skills

scholarly journals Digital Technologies and Data Science as Health Enablers: An Outline of Appealing Promises and Compelling Ethical, Legal, and Social Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
João V. Cordeiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Skills

Digital technologies and data science have laid down the promise to revolutionize healthcare by transforming the way health and disease are analyzed and managed in the future. Digital health applications in healthcare include telemedicine, electronic health records, wearable, implantable, injectable and ingestible digital medical devices, health mobile apps as well as the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to medical and public health prognosis and decision-making. As is often the case with technological advancement, progress in digital health raises compelling ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI). This article aims to succinctly map relevant ELSI of the digital health field. The issues of patient autonomy; assessment, value attribution, and validation of health innovation; equity and trustworthiness in healthcare; professional roles and skills and data protection and security are highlighted against the backdrop of the risks of dehumanization of care, the limitations of machine learning-based decision-making and, ultimately, the future contours of human interaction in medicine and public health. The running theme to this article is the underlying tension between the promises of digital health and its many challenges, which is heightened by the contrasting pace of scientific progress and the timed responses provided by law and ethics. Digital applications can prove to be valuable allies for human skills in medicine and public health. Similarly, ethics and the law can be interpreted and perceived as more than obstacles, but also promoters of fairness, inclusiveness, creativity and innovation in health.

scholarly journals Strategies for Developing Universal Skills for the VUCA World

2020 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-283
Author(s):  
M. A. Meshcheryakova ◽  
O. G. Shalnev ◽  
M. V. Filatova
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
Additional Value

Over the past ten years, there has been a lot of talk about the importance of digital skills in the world of the future, about the ability to learn throughout life as the main quality of an employee, about how employers are increasingly beginning to appreciate the “soft” skills of employees. But few could have imagined that the future would literally come right now. Due to the introduction of quarantine in many countries around the world and the economic crisis, organizations are forced to transform in the shortest possible time, including reorganizing to remote work and mastering new digital tools for this. Even the usually conservative spheres of healthcare and education are urgently adopting telemedicine and distance learning. The success of the ongoing transformations is only partially dependent on technical readiness and digital skills. It is much more related to the extent to which managers and employees are ready to develop and make non-standard decisions, maintain communication, adapt work processes, and set priorities. The main idea is that the breakthrough development of digital technologies will not lead to digitalization of the entire economy. On the contrary, special human qualities will acquire additional value, since they cannot be automated. Another premise in favor of the gradual increase in the importance of a certain spectrum of human skills is the special conditions of the modern economy. It is very demanding on both business and society and an individual, even if we exclude the factors of crisis or force majeure. High expectations of individual performance and company results have become the new norm, and the rapid pace of change makes it impossible to predict what knowledge, skills and tools will be useful even in the foreseeable future.

scholarly journals Three laws for paperlessness

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 205520761982772
Author(s):  
Harold Thimbleby
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Real ◽  
User Centred Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Skills

We are familiar with paper and rarely think much about it, except that in healthcare there seems to be too much of it, and it is slow, inefficient, and so old. In contrast, paperlessness promises the future and freedom from paper’s obvious limitations. We need to think clearly how to ensure paperlessness really improves healthcare, hence three simple laws: 1.  Keep in sight the goal of improving healthcare. Paperlessness must be first about improving clinical processes, supporting staff and patients, not about replacing paper with new ‘solutions’. 2.  Only implement evidence-based change. Pursue paperlessness only where there is scientific evidence it is better for the real task. Successful paperlessness depends on user centred design and on quality implementation. 3.  Plan for cultural change and moving goal posts. Culture has to change to take advantage of technology, and technology is changing at pace regardless. Paperless requires planning for monitoring, improvement, revision and, eventually, obsolescence and further innovation. Pay attention to culture, including regulation, and to developing human skills to exploit new technologies.

scholarly journals Hybrid model in accounting education: The experience of management simulation course

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 2402-2411
Author(s):  
Susana Moreira Bastos ◽  
Helena Costa Oliveira ◽  
Valeria Caggiano
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Hybrid Model ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Accounting Education ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Technological Methods

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on education, he transformation of didactics and technological methods was necessary to promote students’ self-learning and motivation, alongside teachers’ tutoring, guiding students’ academic journey. This paper aims to investigate the effect of COVID-19 on digitalization accounting in higher education and explores the students’ perception of the adapted hybrid model. The study follows a qualitative approach and rely on the final-year students of the accounting and management degree of Accounting and Business of Porto Polytechnic School. Data were collected through a questionnaire from students who experienced both distance and face-to-face education and completed the course of Management Simulation. The study highlights the digitalization of accounting teaching and the pandemic’s effect on the future of digital accounting education. In sum, the hybrid model meets the needs of this practical course and can be a model to be applied in the future. Keywords: Accountant; Digitalization Accounting Education;  Digital Hybrid Pedagogy; Digital Education; Human Skills.      

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