scholarly journals The Effect of Soft Skills on the Successful Employment of Future Engineers: Self-Evaluation Results

2022 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
L. V. Bondareva ◽  
T. V. Potemkina ◽  
G. S. Saulembekova
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Technological Universities ◽  
Successful Employment ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

The research focuses on “integrating” technological universities’ graduates in the current labor market. In pedagogical practice, it is widely known that university graduates with welldeveloped “soft” skills feel more confident about their future, and they can more easily cope with job search. In order to identify the effect of “soft” skills on the readiness of future engineers to job search, a survey was conducted among 106 students, including programmers, business analysts, IT designers, materials scientists, and nanotechnologists.The authors used the statistical methods to identify the relationship between students’ self-evaluation of “soft” skills and their readiness for job-seeking. We have found that 71.7% of all respondents who determined a high level of proficiency in “soft” skills, only 29.6% are confident that job search should not cause difficulties, 28.8% can see a clear connection between their studies and future profession, and 37% believe that they have motivation for professional fulfillment.The results of the survey based on self-evaluation showed that in spite of having a high score in evaluating their “soft” skills, the respondents express extreme uncertainty that they will be competitive enough outside the university and that will be prepared to apply the skills which are crucial for successful employment.

NECESSARY COMPETENCES OF STUDENTS AND UNIVERSITY GRADUATES FOR SUCCESSFUL EMPLOYMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
T. A. Kamarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Stanford Research Institute ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
Successful Employment

Since 2000, the focus of employers’ attention in recruiting personnel for a company has been gradually shifting from hard skills towards soft skills. The results of a study carried out by Harvard University and Stanford Research Institute show that the contribution of hard skills to the professional success of an employee accounts for only 15 %, while soft skills add up to the remaining 85 %. Today, it is not enough for a graduate to acquire special knowledge and expertise – they are required to have soft skills to succeed in a job search. The paper discusses the issue of transformation of the qualifying requirements to the job seekers claimed by employers when hiring personnel. The objective of the work is to identify the structure of the key skills and competencies of university students and graduates essential for their successful employment. The analysis of the requirements of employers to graduates of one of the universities was carried out in 2017–2021. The empirical base was a sociological survey of the heads of Russian companies on the issues of the important soft and hard skills of young specialists. The results of the analysis prove that the rapidly changing economic conditions affect the pool of soft skills that are significant in the labor market. The paper presents the structure of soft skills, describes the pool of important skills and competencies that encourage an employer’s decision to hire an inexperienced university graduate. Thus, the results of the study confirm the importance of the development of soft and hard skills of university students and graduates.

scholarly journals Análisis de la mejora del nivel de empleabilidad de los universitarios mediante la mejora de competencias transversales y habilidades//Analysis of the increase of the employability level in university students through the improvement of transversal

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Rodríguez Martínez ◽  
Alejandra Cortés Pascual ◽  
Sonia Val Blasco
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Clear Correlation ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Guidance ◽  
Competencias Transversales

RESUMENLas soft-skills o competencias transversales se consideran imprescindibles hoy en día para la formación en cualquier campo de conocimiento. Sin embargo, en los servicios de orientación profesional para universitarios todavía no se han incorporado de forma general. El objetivo de la investigación es conocer cómo influye el recibir orientación profesional por competencias transversales en el nivel de empleabilidad de los universitarios-egresados y comprobar si existen diferencias significativas según sexo, edad o situación laboral.Se utiliza un diseño cuasiexperimental pretest-postest con grupo control-experimental. Se lleva a cabo una intervención de orientación por competencias, La muestra es de 748 universitarios-egresados que solicitan orientación profesional y participan en programas subvencionados por la Unión Europea dentro de los programas de los Agentes Sociales de Aragón. Obtenemos la información a través de cuestionarios, entrevistas y de grupos de discusión elaborados (ad hoc). Los datos cuantitativos son analizados con el programa estadístico SPSS y los datos cualitativos son analizados a través de categorización predefinidas y emergentes por segmentos o unidades de análisis y textos transcritos con el software Nvivo.Se halla que la orientación profesional por competencias mejora el nivel de empleabilidad de los universitarios. Recibir orientación profesional por competencias contribuye positivamente a la mejora del nivel de empleabilidad de los universitarios en general y al desarrollo de las competencias transversales y del manejo de los recursos y las herramientas de un modo particular. Existe una clara correlación entre los universitarios-egresados que reciben orientación profesional por competencias y una coyuntura laboral satisfactoria en los mismos.ABSTRACT Soft skills or transversal competences are considered essential for training in any field of knowledge. However, professional guidance services for university students have not yet been incorporated. The aim of the research is to know how professional orientation by transversal competences influences the level of employability of university-graduates and to check if there are significant differences according to sex, age or employment situation.For the research, a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design with a control-experimental group was used, as well as a competency orientation intervention. The sample was compound of 748 university-graduates who request professional guidance and were enrolled in programs subsidized by the European Union within the programs of the Social Agents of Aragon. Information was obtained through questionnaires, interviews and discussion groups. Quantitative data are analyzed with SPSS statistical program and qualitative data are analyzed through predefined and emerging categorization by segments or units of analysis and transcribed texts using Nvivo software.It is found that professional orientation by competences improves the employability level of the university students. Receiving professional guidance by competences contributes positively to the improvement of the employability level of university students in general and to the development of transversal skills and the management of resources and tools. There is a clear correlation between the university-graduates who receive professional guidance by competencies and a satisfactory working conjuncture in themselves.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL AND SOFT SKILLS OF FUTURE IT SPECIALISTS IN COOPERATION WITH LEADING IT COMPANIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Olena G. Glazunova ◽  
Tetiana V. Voloshyna ◽  
Nataliia Dorosh
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
It Industry ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Technological Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The problem of technological universities lagging behind the level of development of the IT-industry can be solved only on condition that technological IT companies actively participate in training of future IT-professionals. Only cooperation between IT-companies and IT-faculties can provide effective training of future IT-professionals. Universities require access to new technologies in order to support students and teachers of STEM-faculties, so that they would keep up with the level of technology development. The article analyzes the trends of cooperation between universities and IT companies. For example, the integration of Microsoft resources and services into the University e-learning environment identified the impact of using appropriate resources for the development of professional skills and “soft skills”. The present article suggests a model of integrating Microsoft resources and services into the e-learning environment.

scholarly journals The Employment Experience of Recent Graduate Education Students

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-47
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Decore
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
The University ◽  
Full Time Employment

Because it both employs a significant portion of university graduates and provides an early warning of future demand for higher levels of education, the teaching profession affords an instructive illustration of the experiences of highly trained personnel in the labour market. The study is an attempt to elucidate part of the picture of supply and demand for teachers by examining the labour market experiences of recent education graduates of the University of Alberta. Although concern recently has surfaced that a shortage of teachers is imminent, these respondents who entered the labour market in late 1987 or mid-1988 reported that teaching jobs were still in short supply in early 1989. Only 62 percent found full-time employment, though 86 percent sought teaching jobs. Job location, age and the extent of the job search emerged as important influences on employment status.

scholarly journals The evaluation of university’s impact on «human resource potential» of alumni

2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 12010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iuliia Obukhova ◽  
Dmitrii Popov ◽  
Anna Tanova ◽  
Veronika Fokina
Keyword(s):  
Educational Environment ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Monitoring Methods ◽  
Managerial Competence ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This paper considers university educational environment to be an important factor in the development of students' organizational and managerial competence. The authors discuss the approaches to the educational environment of the university, analyze its parameters and characteristics and study the connection between the developmental educational environment and a high level of managerial competence attained by technical university graduates. The authors rely on the environmental approach which allows them to assess the impact of the educational environment on students' organizational and managerial competence taking into account the analysis of empirical data obtained by monitoring methods of sociological research. This method also made it possible to improve self-organization and self-management skills of students and to achieve a high level of resilience both on the environmental and personal level.

scholarly journals Influence of the educational environment on students’ managerial competence

2019 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 02097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Razinkina ◽  
Ludmila Pankova ◽  
Irina Trostinskaya ◽  
Elena Pozdeeva ◽  
Lidiya Evseeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Environment ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Monitoring Methods ◽  
Managerial Competence ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This paper considers university educational environment to be an important factor in the development of students’ organizational and managerial competence. The authors discuss the approaches to the educational environment of the university, analyze its parameters and characteristics, and study the connection between the developmental educational environment and a high level of managerial competence attained by technical university graduates. The authors rely on the environmental approach which allows them to assess the impact of the educational environment on students’ organizational and managerial competence taking into account the analysis of empirical data obtained by monitoring methods of sociological research. This method also made it possible to improve self-organization and self-management skills of students, and to achieve a high level of resilience both on the environmental and personal level.

scholarly journals Self-evaluation of excellence of didactical-methodical organization of university teaching

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 517-531
Author(s):  
Nedim Čirić
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Very High ◽  
Research Show

The total excellence of university teaching largely depends on pedagogical and didactical­methodical competencies of university professors. The development and promotion of academic teaching is enabled by the modernization of the teaching process which does not encompass only modernization of curriculum but the entire didactical­methodical organization of teaching. Pleasure and requirements of students are to be accentuated accordingly, as well as competencies of teachers and expectations of labor market. The purpose of this paper is to establish which element of didactical­methodical organization of university teaching is the most important dimension of excellence of teaching as well as in what way university professors perform self­evaluation of the excellence of didactical­methodical organization of teaching at the University of Tuzla. The analytical­descriptive survey method was used as a variant of analytical­descriptive method as well as procedures of analysis of contents and polling. It is supposed that there is statistically significant difference in self­evaluation of the importance of elements of excellence in didactical­methodical organization of teaching at the University of Tuzla and that self­evaluations of the importance of individual elements of excellence of university teaching differ with regard to age, sex, teaching/academic title, years of experience in academic institutions and scientific field the faculty belongs to. The results of this research show that the excellence of planning and preparation and excellence in choice of teaching methods are the most important elements of excellence in the organization of university teaching, and that 90% of teaching personnel evaluates that the classes they organize are at very high level of excellence.

Job search strategies of recent university graduates: prevalence and effectiveness

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Elena Varshavskaya ◽  
Ulyana Podverbnykh
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Large Field ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Expected Return ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Graduate Survey ◽  
Job Searches ◽  
Combined Strategy

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to analyse the prevalence and effectiveness of methods and strategies for job searches amongst recent graduates of Russian universities.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical analysis is carried out on data from the Russian Graduate Survey 2016, which is representative of individuals graduating during 2010–2015. The sample included 12,370 individuals. The empirical approach combined standard descriptive statistics, factor and regression analysis (multiple logit regression).FindingsResults show that the most common strategies are a combined strategy that involves the use of formal and informal methods, as well as “pure” informal strategies – applying to relatives and friends or contacting employers. The most effective strategies are job searches with the help of relatives and friends, by contacting employers and with the help of educational organisations. The choice of job search strategy is determined by the expected return in terms of the likelihood of finding a job.Practical implicationsThe paper increases understanding of graduate job search behaviour. The results can be used by multiple stakeholders in higher education to better prepare students for job seeking.Originality/valueThis research, based on a large field survey of recent university graduates, provides the first estimates of use of job search strategies and their effectiveness for Russian university graduates.

THE INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY OF THE PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES: BETWEEN TOEFL AND TOEIC

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Besin Gaspar ◽  
Yenny Hartanto
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Proficiency Test ◽  
English Proficiency ◽  
Job Applicants ◽  
First Year ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
New Employees ◽  
The University ◽  
Higher Institutions

Recently the university students are required by their institutions to have the TOEFL score in the fisrt year or in the last year of their study before graduation. Some other higher institutions require their students to submit TOEIC, not TOEFL, before graduation. Companies, in the recruitment process, require the applicants to submit TOEFL score to show their level of English proficiency. The first question is which one is more appropriate for job applicants in the compay: TOEFL  or TOEIC. Another question for university students before graduation is whether to have TOEFL  in the first year or in the last year before graduation. This article aims at answering the two questions raised. The first part will give an overview of various versions of TOEFL  and  TOEIC  and the second part proposes the appropriate English proficiency test  for the recruitment process for new employees and for the university graduates, that is, TOEIC for the company  and TOEFL  for universities  and  colleges. 

The University Student’s Motivation Level on Learning English

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Esmira Mehdiyev ◽  
Celal Teyyar Uğurlu ◽  
Gonca Usta
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
T Test ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Personal Use ◽  
Motivation Level ◽  
Motivation Scale ◽  
The University

This study aims to determine the university students’ level of motivation in terms of different variables. A study group of this research has been designed through one of the non-random sampling methods, Using appropriate sampling, 606 students from Faculty of Education of C.U. have been involved in this study. Motivation scale in English Language Learning developed by Mehdiyev,Usta,Uğurlu (2015) was used as an instrument of data collection. T-test and one - way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to resolve problems of this research. As a result of the research the motivation level of university students hasn’t been revealed significantly different regarding to the gender variable. However, considering the t-test results of motivation scale dimensions, confidence, attitude and personal use, significant difference is seen in favour of women in personal use dimension. The level of language learning motivation of female students is higher than men’s regarding to personal use dimension. However, men’s and women’s views don’t differ significantly in attitude and confidence dimensions. University students don’t present significant differences in terms of birth place, parent’s education level, total motivation scores and confident, attitude and personal dimensions. Students’ motivation levels are seen not to be influenced by the places such as village, provision or city where they have spent the most of their lifetime. At the same time the findings revealed that parental status variable in terms of primary, secondary and university graduates has no effects on students’ motivation.

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