scholarly journals Soft Skills Identification for Guidance and Job Placement: Presentation of the Project UNIMC (Macerata University) for Soft Skills

Author(s):  
Paola Nicolini ◽  
Elisa Attili ◽  
Valentina Corinaldi ◽  
Monica de Chiro ◽  
Cristina Formiconi
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Soft skills are those essential traits and expertise that must be acquired by every person to be successful in life. These abilities, traits or skills are also most popularly called people’s skills and in recent times, also known as twenty first century skills. It is proven that the hard skills or the academic or professional qualifications maybe an inevitable component of any kind of employment or job placement but the success of a person depends upon the soft skills he has. Research has shown that attitude of the pupils and development or enhancement of these skills is correlated. The attitude is different in each individual and therefore the real life application of these skills is also varied. The study undertaken endeavours to find out the correlation between the positive attitude and negative attitude of the students towards soft skills and the real life application of it.


Currently, in the curricula of universities and colleges, the integration of skills training for students is a trend, which is also a requirement in the assessment of learning outcomes both standard skills and attitudes. Employers often evaluate candidates based on 3 factors: Knowledge - Skill - Attitude. In particular, the attitude at work is always appreciated because skills can be trained but self-awareness and initiative are not. Therefore, the requirements for students require skills to serve the job position. However, current births lack professional and soft skills. Students from high school to college are not able to adapt to the way of learning and working because the environment is completely different. Most students while still in school are not aware of the importance of skills for job requirements, no sense of study, no spirit of work or have but do not find interest in Therefore, the work is not at its best and the efficiency is not high. The article focuses on researching and evaluating about ability to respond the job placement of students during integration 4.0, on that basis, to propose effective solutions in training to improve training efficiency, thereby helping students to respond the job position and facilitate finding suitable jobs, increasing competitive advantage in job hunting for students


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Bohinc
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