scholarly journals Shaping the 21st-century information professional: A convergence of technical and “soft” skills for workplace success

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liya Deng ◽  
Andy Thomas ◽  
Stan Trembach
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Workplace Success ◽  
Information Professional

Librarian Skillsets in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Josiline Phiri Chigwada
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Structured Literature Review ◽  
The Way

The chapter showcases the 21st century skills that are required by librarians. The digital era brought about a lot of changes in the way that librarians interact with their clients. Due to the changing needs of clients, librarians should ensure that they are well equipped to deliver the needed services. The objectives of the chapter are to identify the skills that librarians should possess in the 21st century, examine how librarians acquire those skills, and discuss the challenges that are faced when acquiring those skills. Structured literature review and web content analysis were used to get the LIS skills. It was discovered that librarians should possess professional, technical, and soft skills in order to remain relevant in the 21st century. The findings revealed that librarians can acquire skills through on the job trainings or formal education. The major challenge that is faced by librarians is the issue of lack of funds to support their capacity building endeavours.

scholarly journals Essential Soft Skills for Workplace Success

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 2648-2654
Author(s):  
Dr. Pusuluri Sreehari
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
Work Style ◽  
Workplace Success ◽  
Career Growth

Employers assess and judge their employees on their knowledge of both technical skills and soft skills. Until the recent past, technical skills were given top priority. However, that perception has changed over time. The knowledge of soft skills is now being considered as important as or more important than technical knowledge. Professional success depends upon a host of parameters such as experience, expertise, skill level, personality traits, work style, communication style, and work-life balance. Soft skills have also become a key parameter of professional success. This paper looks at the factors that have contributed to the acknowledgment of the significance of the soft skills at workplace and also presents the ways in which the knowledge of the soft skills could be enriched to go up the career ladder. It proposes a list of key soft skills such as self-awareness, emotional intelligence, team work, cross-cultural communication and personal accountability, which are expected to be the game changers. It is hoped that the employees’ knowledge about essential soft skills would enable them to become productive and mindful professionals at their workplaces. It is also implied that employees view soft skills as valuable assets rather than extraneous matters in their professional success. The insights presented in the paper, if deployed diligently, could augur well for career growth and enable the employees to remain relevant even if the job and technology scenario keep changing.

scholarly journals Identifying Critical 21st-Century Skills for Workplace Success: A Content Analysis of Job Advertisements

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Rios ◽  
Guangming Ling ◽  
Robert Pugh ◽  
Dovid Becker ◽  
Adam Bacall
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Written Communication ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
21St Century Skill ◽  
Workplace Success ◽  
Job Advertisements ◽  
21St Century Learning Skills

This article extends the literature on 21st-century learning skills needed for workplace success by providing an empirical examination of employers’ direct communication to potential employees via job advertisements. Our descriptive analysis of 142,000 job advertisements provides two contributions. First, this is one of the first studies to empirically rank-order skill demand. In doing so, it is clear that oral and written communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills are in high demand by employers, with particular emphasis on the pairing of oral and written communication. Furthermore, it is apparent that many of the skills suggested in the literature as being critical for workplace success are in very low demand by employers, and some were not found to be mentioned at all (e.g., social responsibility). Second, this study explicitly examined whether 21st-century skill demand varied by job characteristics, which was found to be the case, with differences being noted for both education level and degree field requirements. Results were replicated with a sample of roughly 120,000 job advertisements collected 1 year from the initial data collection. Implications for developing educational standards around 21st-century skill development are discussed.

scholarly journals Perancangan Board Game Kolaboratif. Studi Kasus: Legenda Gunung Tondoyan

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Nadia Mahatmi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Games For Learning ◽  
Design Documentation ◽  
Collaborative Skills

Collaboration is one of the soft skills needed in the 21st century. One way to advance collaborative skills is to use a board game. It is common today to find board games for learning purposes. The design of this collaborative board game uses qualitative methods, namely literature studies, brainstorming, physical prototypes, software prototypes, and design documentation. With this research, it is hoped that it will help understand how to design a collaborative board game. Keywords: board game; collaborative; prototype

scholarly journals Can a Skill be Measured or Assessed?

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-24
Author(s):  
Yuliya Shtaltovna
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Strategic Vision ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
World Economic

This paper reviews historic and current definitions of skill as a concept, as well as frameworks that have been applied to analyse levels of skills development across the academic and professional spectrum. The author proposes a 6-level chart of skill development based on the “can-do descriptors” approach by CEFR, also known as the ability assessment approach, for further discussion, development, and application. The proposed chart is based on six levels. These are organized into two Entry levels, two Operational Use levels and two Strategic Vision levels. Further debate on the typology of skills by Deloitte, LinkedIn Research and World Economic Forum is presented as of 2020 documentation. Its dynamic manner of paradigms changing the importance of a wide array of skills (alternatively denominated as employability skills, soft skills and/or 21st Century skills) are analysed, both for educators and employers.

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