Although the soft (i.e. non-technical) skills of information systems (I/S) professionals are recognized as important for job performance, few attempts have been made to study systematically the concept of soft skills. We draw upon the pioneering work in the area of practical intelligence and creativity at the workplace to develop the concept of soft skills and to validate an instrument to asses...

Employers around the world complain that youth lack the soft skills needed for success in the workplace. In response, a number of employment programs have begun to incorporate soft skills training, but to date there has been little evidence as to the effectiveness of such programs. This paper reports on a randomized experiment in Jordan in which female community college graduates were randomly ...

Information Systems (IS) curricula should provide students with both technical and non-technical (soft) skills. The technical aspects are covered by various courses. However, soft skills like teamwork, interpersonal communication, presentation delivery, and others are hardly covered. Employers, who consider both technical and soft skills to be equally important, search for professional Informat...

Soft skills for software engineers turned out to be a very important factor in the success of any project helping the team’s dynamics and performance. Conversely, computer science undergraduates are possibly not aware of the importance of soft skills for their careers. Accordingly this paper’s main purpose is to highlight the gaps that exist for computer science graduates in Egypt. In this pape...

Graduates of computer science programs often lack skills that employers desire among software developers. These include, for example, weaknesses in the areas of collaboration, communication, and software testing. Further research can help to refine this list by providing insight into additional skills that are of rising or regional importance. This paper therefore presents a study aimed at unco...

Purpose: This paper presents the findings of a group empirical studies for conceptual and theoretical validation Critical Managerial Soft Skills (CMS) Model then psychometric properties newly developed tool - The Inventory (ICMS) assessing same. Design/methodology/approach: CMS model was validated by set qualitative quantitative among employers to confirm importance soft skills derive critical ...

The article is devoted to the topical issue of primary school teacher training in higher educational institutions. purpose research investigate process developing teachers’ soft skills teaching philological disciplines.
 After a comparative analysis definitions category ‘soft skills’ proposed by Ukrainian and foreign researchers, authors have emphasized that are especially crucial for teac...