Many employers around the world express their concerns about recent graduates’ lack of necessary soft skills. They claim that new hires are inadequately prepared for handling some common challenges which have to be addressed at workplace and skills gap is widening with every passing year. Employers looking candidates who can understand analyse ideas, tackle complex issues, actively contribute t...

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The emergence of the Industry 4.0 has been driven by technological advances that brought need for evolution in educational sector. Education proposes a restructuring teaching methods to include socio-emotional skills highly demanded within current job market. Engineers traditionally have technical-scientific-based training; they focus on development core competencies such as mathematics, physic...

Behavioral Economics of Education During the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality traits not adequately measured by achievement tests) as equally important drivers of later economic outcomes, and skills ...

[Context/Motivation] Research on the professional occupation of Requirements Engineering (RE) in Europe and Latin America indicated soft skills are the very important when companies search for specialists to employ. A very long list of soft skills came out as a result of prior research, with proficiency in English being the Number One skill. [Question/problem] To what extent however are these s...

Skill shortage remains one of the major constraints to continued growth of the Indian economy. However, very little research has been conducted to identify which specific skills are in high demand and which skills are in short supply. This employer survey seeks to address this knowledge-gap by answering three questions: (i) which skills do employers consider important when hiring new engineerin...

Fachwissen allein reicht nicht aus, um den komplexen Anforderungen von Studium und Beruf gerecht zu werden Hochschulabsolventen brauchen darüber hinaus auch so genannte Soft Skills. Immer mehr Studiengänge vermitteln daher Schlüsselqualifikationen im Rahmen des Lehrplanes. Bisher werden jedoch nur in wenigen Fällen diese Themen mit Hilfe neuer Medien gelehrt. Die Autoren berichten von ihren Erf...