Soft Skills as Employability Skills: Fundamental Requirement for Entry-level Jobs

GettinG Youth in the Door: Defining Soft Skills Requirements for Entry-level Service Sector Jobs

We would like to acknowledge Hilton Worldwide and Walmart for their support in the development of this study.

GettinG Youth in the Door: Defining Soft Skills Requirements for Entry-level Service Sector Jobs

E-Skills, Competitiveness and Employability

In Europe in particular, the so-called Lisbon Strategy has enhanced efforts to mobilize active economic and social forces around education, innovation and knowledge intensive sectors and activities such as information and communications technologies. At the same time, European institutions and national governments have pursued their efforts to deepen and strengthen a European social model where...

Responsibility and Skills Requirements for Entry Level Analytics Professionals

Library; Aluminium Industry Abstracts; Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC); Bacon’s Media Directory; Burrelle’s Media Directory; Business Periodicals Index/Wilson Business Abstracts; Cabell’s Directories; Ceramic Abstracts; Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index); Computer & Information Systems Abstracts; Corrosion Abstracts; CSA Civil Engineering Abstracts; CSA Illumina; CSA Mechanical & T...

Towards an Efficient Approach for Examining Employability Skills

A student’s approach to an open-ended problem, one with no necessarily right or wrong answer, is crucial to their employability. Indeed the value of a mathematics graduate to an employer is in his/her problem solving skills, and exercises assessing these usually form part of graduate assessment days. The scope for open-ended problems within a mathematics degree is large, yet traditionally these...