scholarly journals Understanding Landscape Architecture Industry Needs: A Preliminary Review of Graduates Communication Proficiency Model (CPM)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Zuhairy Alias ◽  
Nurhayati Abdul Malek ◽  
Noriah Othman ◽  
Noralizawati Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Preliminary Review ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Current Trends

Communication is a fundamental part of the working environment that comprises interpersonal relations and communication between groups and individuals and other social interactions within the active community. Communication and soft skills have become an important issue due to the lack of study and development, especially in the Landscape Architectural practice. It can be seen that the lack of communication and soft skills by current graduates has affected employability leading to a large quantity of unemployment and lack of advancement within the landscape industry. Hence, to keep up with the current trends of what employers seek within these landscape architecture graduates, it is believed that a paradigm shift in the training of students must take into account the development of Communication Skills within the curriculum to help aid the development of graduate employability skills. A method of assessing communication skills is also required to rate a Landscape Architect’s level of communication competence to further enhance the graduates’ career in the industry. Keywords: Soft Skill, Communication Skill, Landscape Architecture, Employability Skills

scholarly journals STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING IN RELATION TO CLASS PERFORMANCES AND SOFT SKILLS: A META-ANALYSIS AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Rukmini ◽  
Cindy Cindy ◽  
Pricillia Tanoto
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning

Background: Studies showed that SCL improved quality of medical education through knowledge acquisition, class performance, students’ attitude and soft skills. Although research about SCL and its impact has been widely known, overall correlation of SCL to the class performances has not yet been established. Strong correlation between SCL to class performances would serve the purpose of teaching and learning and more importantly would answer the skepticism of institution or faculty members in implementing SCL. In addition, learning through systematic review of others’ studies, how SCL influenced soft skill aspects would be benefited for medical educators. Soft skills such as learning motivation, communication skills, and teamwork may lead educators to the favor of SCL approaches. This review was to find the correlation of student-centered learning to the students’ performances and soft skill aspects in medical education.Method: To find the correlation of the SCL and class performances, we used meta-analysis. We also performed a systematic review to qualitatively find the relationship between SCL and other aspects, such as teamwork, communication skills, and learning motivation. Literatures were filtered from databases of: Proquest, Springerlink, Biomed Central (BMC) open, BMJ open, and Google Scholar. The inclusion criteria were published empirical articles (2000-2013) reported SCL’s effect on class performances or other aspects (learning motivation, teamwork, communication skills). We utilized PRISMA protocol to filter the inclusion articles. By reading abstracts and further snowballing searching, we found 12 articles for the meta-analysis and 33 articles for the systematic review.                                                                 Results: Among 12 articles of the meta-analysis, 9 articles showed positive correlation between SCL and class performances. Three studies reported that SCL had no effect on the class performances. None of the articles reported any negative impact. We utilized the Comprehensive Meta-Analysis software to analyze the data and found r = 0.46 and 95% CI: 0.32 - 0.57. It showed a statistically significant correlation between SCL and class performances. On the systematic review, we found that SCL improved communication skills, team work, and learning motivation.Conclusion: From the meta-analysis we found that SCL improved class performances about 46%. It was showed that SCL methods were superior in improving soft skills such as communication skills, teamwork, and learning motivation.                

scholarly journals Assessing Students’ Knowledge and Soft Skills Competency in the Industrial Training Programme: The Employers’ Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lim Khong Chiu ◽  
Nor Idayu Mahat ◽  
Basri Rashid ◽  
Norhanim A. Razak ◽  
Hamimi Omar
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Industrial Training ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Service Sectors

<p>The importance of developing soft skills competency among students should be the priority of all the Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in order to ensure their graduates are marketable. Therefore, it is essential for HEIs to distinguish the knowledge and soft skill levels of their students so that strategies and intervention could be implemented to rectify their capabilities. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the knowledge and soft skills competency from the employer’s viewpoints on the Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) students participating in the industrial training programme. A total of 438 employers from different industrial backgrounds had participated in this study. A questionnaire consisting of five dimensions of soft skills which are basic knowledge, communication skills, practical skills, leadership, and attitude was utilized to collect data. The results of this study indicate that the employers were satisfied with the knowledge and soft skills competency portrayed by UUM students in preparing themselves for the real work environment. The employers from the service sectors were satisfied with students’ performance in all dimensions of soft skills measured. However, employers from the factory and commerce sector perceived as moderate satisfaction for all dimensions of soft skills. Additionally, the employers of the factory and commerce sector assessed by giving the lowest satisfaction score for “hands-on” skills, but generally they satisfied with the students’ communication skills. The information gathered can provide important insights from the perspective of organizations which is valuable in improving the overall hard and soft skills competency for future professionals and managers.</p>

scholarly journals ECOTOURISM AS A SOFT SKILL PRACTICE FOR MILLENIALS

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
I Dewa Gde Satrya ◽  
Thomas Stefanus Kaihatu ◽  
Lexi Pranata
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Interpersonal Skills ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Human Resource Capacity ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Resource Capacity

Traveling not only creates fun for tourists. Tourism activities are believed to also improving human resources ability. It is a significant aspect related to human resource capacity that soft skills ownership which can be trained to modern travellers through ecotourism activities. This descriptive qualitative study describes soft skills trained to tourists from among younger generation in ecotourism destinations. Statement of the problem in this research is what is the relevance between ecotourism and soft skill ownership? This study identifies soft skills trained in ecotourism activities that are interpersonal skills characterized by communication skills, like others, have empathy and concern, warm, forgiving, open, adaptive and self-control abilities. The interpersonal skills that are part of this soft skill are believed to be important and will help younger generation to succeed in living their lives.

scholarly journals Retooling For Terminated Contract Workers Of Vocational School Alumni (Back) To Work

TAMAN VOKASI ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Samidjo Samidjo
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skill ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Contract Workers ◽  
Permanent Workers

Abstract. Unemployment of vocational high school graduates consists of two categories, the graduates who never been in work and who had been in work as a contract workers and then terminated. More than 63 percent of the graduates who have ever been as a contract workers did not work match with their competence, as a result when the contract agreement expired the workers did not been assigned as permanent workers. In order to get other jobs after termination,  the workers need to upgrade their competence or to retool with skills other than the skills the workers acquired from vocational school, in order to fit well with the need of workers in industry. Besides the functional skill needed for handling operational works, the terminated contract workers need to upgrade their soft skill suitable for the future working environment, that is learning to work in a group consisting of many communities to solve very complex problem as the characteristic of jobs in the industry 4.0, besides other component of soft skills such as honesty, discipline, attitude, commitment to work, communication skill, and open for change.

scholarly journals The effect of the project-based learning model on the soft skill of vocational school students

2022 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 180-193
Author(s):  
Listyana Hartati ◽  
Marsono Marsono ◽  
Yoto Yoto
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto

This study aims to analyze the project-based learning model on the soft skills of SMK students. The Project-Based Learning model requires students to have skills in solving a problem. The approach used in this research is quantitative using ex-post facto research, the type of correlation research. The sample used for the study was 170 students. The results of the study found a significant influence between the Project-Based Learning Model in the Network Infrastructure Administration Subject on students' communication skills, discipline, responsibility, creativity, and collaboration. Through the Project-Based Learning model, teachers are advised to often train students to complete tasks that can improve students' soft skills in other subjects.

scholarly journals Mastery of Soft Skills Through Co-curricular Uniform Body

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadillah Ismail ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Moral Ethics ◽  
Ministry Of Higher Education

Involvement students in the co-curricular of uniformed bodies is one of the significant alternatives in the effort to apply elements of soft skills among students in IPT. This study is a longitudinal survey study aimed at measuring the level of mastery of soft skills among 912 students who took a uniformed body co-curriculum course. There are seven attributes of insaniah skill (soft skill) for IPT students as outlined by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (KPTM) including communication skills, leadership, teamwork, critical thinking and problem solving, lifelong learning, entrepreneurship and professional moral ethics skills (KPT 2006) applied . Statistical Package for Social Science Version 20 software was used to analyze the findings of this study. The results show that there is a change in the mastery of the mastery of the seven soft skills among students before and after joining the uniformed body.

THE INFLUENCE OF GENDER AND ETHNIC FACTORS ON THE SOFT SKILLS OF STUDENTS OF THE FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND LAW, TRA VINH UNIVERSITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyễn Thị Thu Diềm
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Skill Gaps ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Ethnic Factors ◽  
Work Management ◽  
Self Learning

This study has been conducted to identify the soft skill gaps between students and graduates as well as analyze the influence of gender and ethnicity to soft skills in TraVinh university. Quantitative data were collected at School of Economics and Law with a sample of 362 students and 300 graduates to measure their soft skills. The results show that both students and graduates are still unconfident about their soft skills in general, leading to an effect on the self-esteem aspects of students. Moreover, people also acknowledge the significance of soft skills, namely critical thinking, problem-solving, self-learning, work-management skills and teamwork as well as communication skills; generally need to be prioritizing equipped with for any kinds of workplaces. Nonetheless, the aforementioned skill gap is significantly remarkable, especially regarding the communication skills. Beside that, there is a significant difference in skills level by gender (male and female) and ethnic group (Kinh, Cham and Khmer). From these analyses, a number of solutions for the work recruitment, schools, graduateshave proposed to lessen the skill gap and meet the demand of labour-markets.

scholarly journals Employers’ perception on important employability skills in the manufacturing industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.29) ◽  
pp. 170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiau Wei Chan ◽  
M F. Ahmad ◽  
Izzuddin Zaman ◽  
Woan Shin Ko
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Company Size ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Significant Difference

Employability skills are among the important soft skills that should be acquired by employees in the industrial sector today. Unfortunately, Malaysian graduates do face obstacles when looking for employment upon graduation due to the absence of employability skills among them. The main aim of this study is to identify employers’ perceptions of the most important employability skills in the manufacturing industry. The study is also aimed to determine the differences between the important employability skills from the perspective of employers based on their gender, their company’s size, and types of companies in the manufacturing industry. In this study, a total of 182 employers from the manufacturing industry in Batu Pahat were chosen randomly. Questionnaires were administered to the employers. The data generated were statistically analysed using descriptive and inferential analyses. The analysis shows that employers’ perception of the most important employability skills in manufacturing industry is communication skills. The independent variables chosen are gender, company size, and types of manufacturing sector, while the dependent variable is the perceptions of important employability skills in the manufacturing industry. Results show that the perceptions of important employability skills in the manufacturing industry have no significant difference according to employers’ gender and type of manufacturing sector, but there is a significant difference for company size. This quantitative study provides key insights that enable future employees to have more understanding of the employment demand in the manufacturing industry nowadays and for employees to develop their employability skills before getting ready to enter the labour market.  

scholarly journals Need of Soft Skills for Undergraduate Urban Youth for Career Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 79-87
Author(s):  
Suresh Gautam
Keyword(s):  
Urban Youth ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
The City ◽  
Everyday Life Activities

The paper aims to show the importance of soft skills of the undergraduate urban youth who are preparing their career within Nepal or abroad.  Youth in city pursue formal education from colleges and university in Nepal. After the completion of undergraduates, they prepare themselves for the job market. In this line, I argue that those youth who have not developed their soft skills struggle much to find out a job. It also increases the urban poverty and unemployment.  I employed ethnographic research approach to explore everyday life activities of urban youth showing their preparedness of career. In doing so, I am telling credible, rigorous, and authentic stories of those undergraduate urban youth who are preparing their career in Kathmandu. The research is carried out in Kathmandu with four young research participants who are going to appear their final semester examination of undergraduate level in Management stream from a private college of Kathmandu.  Two of them  have just started working in companies and two of them are searching  jobs.  Applying the soft skill perspective the paper explores the situation of undergraduate youth in Kathmandu who theoretically learned about some soft skills in colleges and university during their academic hours but they hardly practiced in working environment.  The research explores that it is not enough to deliver theories of soft skills in the classroom rather  practice for youth who are going to start their career in the city.

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