childtrends.org “Soft skills” are centrally important for human capital development and workforce success. A growing evidence base shows that these qualities rival academic or technical skills in their ability to predict employment and earnings, among other outcomes (Kautz, Heckman, Diris, ter Weel, & Borghans, 2014). As the workplace has modernized around the world, the demand for such skills ...

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...

While Data Analytics programs are proliferating in many disciplines, traditional academic approaches seem to favor depth of technical skills over soft skills in their approaches to creating Data Analytics programs. Yet business wants an equal focus on communication, relationship development, and other soft skills. This panel will explore the issues in graduate analytics education to develop an ...

The paper addresses content-related issues, a state-of-the-art assessment, and the key trends in growth of soft skills. Soft skills should be emphasized university curricula because they are currently necessary for having decent career possibilities. article examines findings study on development among postgraduate students at Alfred Nobel University Dnipro, Ukraine who majoring professional ed...

The influence of game-based teaching at English classes with university students for soft skills development has been shown. purpose the article is to test experimentally effectiveness development. theoretical (analysis and synthesis), empirical (questioning, observation, discussion), experimental (pedagogical experiment) methods have used. pedagogical experiment helped evaluate obtained data. ...