...Natalia Reig-Aleixandre; Monique Villen; Jorge Cisneros-González; Susana Bautista Blasco Purpose The purpose is to examine engineering students’ perceptions of soft skills, focussing on the gap between their self-perceived acquisition and the importance attributed to these skills by employers...

...Natalí Basilico; Paula Pedro-Aznar; Mitchell Peters Purpose This study analyses the increasing demand for soft skills from an integrated perspective, aiming to explain their function as durable-adaptive capital and enhance evidence-based career guidance and lifelong learning strategies, thereby...

...Amir Parnianifard; Di Aiying Purpose This study addresses the persistent gap between engineering education and industry requirements by examining how scenario-based learning (SBL) can systematically develop and assess soft skills within an engineering management course. The research evaluates...

...José L. Ramírez-Duque; Daniel Morillo-Torres Purpose This case study explores the integration of Design Thinking (DT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education to develop students' soft skills while addressing a real and complex sustainability challenge. The “Cooling the Future” educational...

...Christina Amanda Savitri; Claudius Budi Santoso; Tur Nastiti Purpose This study examines how soft skills shape problem-solving capability in work-based learning by integrating Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and the Job Demands–Resources (JD–R) model. It tests whether personal engagement explains...

..., 2023 ; Sharma, 2023), their effects are not always direct. For instance, Rodrigues and Dias (2024) find that the influence of soft skills on career outcomes diminishes when accounting for mediating psychological variables, indicating that other internal factors may play a significant role. Self...

... ; Billett, 2013). Although the benefits of enhancing employability skills are well-established, challenges persist (Nemy et al., 2016). These include the need to balance technical and soft skills, address the diverse needs of individual students, and ensure that curriculum modifications comply...

..., and research terms were defined. The search, conducted in September 2023, encompassed five databases, excluding medical or health sciences education. Design/methodology/approach This systematic literature review paper comprehensively examines studies on soft skill development methods in higher education...

... of 94 highly relevant papers. Then, a combination of bibliometric analysis and in-depth content analysis of the top ten most-cited papers was conducted to examine research trends in this field. Findings “Soft skills” are identified as the strongest citation bursts between 2014 and 2016...

...Nagarajah Agilan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine employers’ perspectives on developing the soft skills of business graduates via university–industry partnership in a “developing country” context. Design/methodology/approach Informed by the interpretivist paradigm, a qualitative...

...Iraia Urkia-Basterra; Ainara Imaz Agirre; Paula Álvarez-Huerta Purpose The purpose of this systematic literature review is to identify which soft skills are developed during work-based learning (WBL) programmes in higher education contexts. Additionally, the study sought to identify strategies...

...Zelda S. Bisschoff; Liezel Massyn Purpose The paper aims to close a literature gap by proposing a comprehensive conceptual soft skills competency framework for enhancing graduate intern employability through the cultivation of employability capital. Design/methodology/approach The study...

... 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Artificial intelligence Critical thinking Soft skills Accounting Tertiary education Curriculum reform Technological proficiency Job displacement The integration of artificial...

... at: Thomas.Gauthier@fscj.edu 27 02 2023 11 09 2023 10 01 2024 23 01 2024 25 01 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Community college Career and technical education Qualitative research Soft skills Workforce...

... Automation Colombia Future of work Technology Soft skills Latin America For example, we define creative thinking as a non-automatable task since by definition, a machine's work activities must be programed by a human for a particular purpose. Automation will never replace creative thinking...

... undergraduates Ethnography Communication skills Presentation skills Soft skills With the need to improve engineering students' speaking skills, an experiential language learning approach was adopted. While teaching the first semester students of Bachelor of Technology degree, the teacher first discussed...

... Capability development Soft skills Work integrated learning Tourism and hospitality Curriculum design/development Government and industry stakeholders are driving the agenda within the higher education sector to create work-ready graduates (Oliver, 2011). Within the hospitality context, employers...

... 2019 26 11 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Competency for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Interdisciplinary education Engineering college education Education reform Soft skills Social competencies...

... competences. The perceived value of the i-Week reflects the impact on soft skills: self-skills, personal, learning, social and systemic. The paper proposed an integrated model to learn these competences from action learning experiences. Research limitations/implications The questionnaire is a self...

...Christina W. Yao; Minerva D. Tuliao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore graduate students’ perception of how soft skills are developed at a transnational university in Vietnam, and how these soft skills contribute to their perceived employability. Design/methodology/approach...