scholarly journals Building Students’ Personality for Employment Readiness through Soft-skills Training

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Saranya C Saranya C ◽  
Rajakumar Guduru
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Personality Types ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Employment Readiness ◽  
Support Students

A winning personality is the physical attribute of a person and is considered as his or her success in personal, academic, and professional careers. However, in the ESL context, most engineering students seem to be unaware of the need for and importance of an appealing personality for achieving success in both personal and professional careers. Although students are given a short-term training in soft-skills by their respective college or institute, engineering students seem to lack aspects of a pleasing personality which helps them in job placements and later in the work environment. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to understand and build engineering students’ personality traits such as enthusiasm, dependability, and teamwork for a successful career. For this purpose, to understand the students’ personality types, 25 engineering students were administered a pre-test based on Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typological approach to personality. Students were helped in building personality through the soft-skills training. The data was analyzed and interpreted both qualitatively and quantitatively. The results indicated that having a pleasing personality and exhibiting soft-skills enables in building students’ individual personality for employment readiness. Implications were offered to students, placement trainers, and teachers. It is concluded that having a charming personality will support students in landing their desired jobs.

Implementation and Impact Evaluation of Entrepreneurship Support Services in Jamaica

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Ubfal ◽  
Irani Arráiz ◽  
Diether Beuermann ◽  
Michael Frese ◽  
Alessandro Maffioli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Business Training ◽  
Business Outcomes ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Personal Initiative ◽  
Hard Skills

AUTHORUbfal, Diego; Arráiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether; Frese, Michael; Maffioli, Alessandro; Verch, DanielDATEMar 2021DOWNLOAD:English (0 downloads)DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003182There has been growing interest in approaches to business training that incorporate insights from psychology to develop soft skills associated with successful entrepreneurship. The empirical evidence on their success, however, is still inconclusive. This study designs and evaluates two training programs focusing on soft skills, which are adapted to the Jamaican context. The first program provides soft-skills training on personal initiative, including the development of a proactive mindset and perseverance after setbacks. The second program combines soft-skills training on personal initiative with traditional training on hard skills aimed at changing business practices. Both programs are evaluated using a randomized controlled trial design involving 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica. Findings indicate positive effects of the intensive soft-skills training, but not of the training combining soft and hard skills, on business outcomes (i.e., sales and profits) in the short-term (i.e., three months after the implementation of the trainings). The positive short-term effects of the soft-skills training are concentrated among men and are not significant for women. These effects, however, vanish when measured 12 months after the trainings. Nonetheless, the soft-skills training show persistent positive effects on some targeted soft skills, which are measured with both self-reported and incentivized measures.

scholarly journals INFORMATION LITERACY AND THE ART OF DOING RESEARCH WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF AN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION CLASS

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Parker ◽  
Norma Godavari
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Discourse Community ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
The Subject

In this paper, we present some of the pedagogical outcomes of a study we undertook to determine whether research skills are valuable “soft skills” to have within an Engineering context, or whether they are merely “short-term competencies” as some would contend. We argue that engineering students (as future professionals) must develop two important – and confluent – skills: finding valid, complex technical information and translating it into a useful communication. As professionals, engineers must be able to find the information they need, assess it and apply it to their designs and to their communications. As students, they need to become acquainted with their professional discourse community, so we suggest that assigning a research paper in a field where applications and design exigencies are important is a worthwhile thing to do since this kind of research activity underpins students’ future roles as professional engineers and promotes their lifelong learning. In the technical communication class offered in our school of Engineering, students learn how to engage in the systematic process of finding, selecting, organizing, distilling and presenting information, a process that enhances their comprehension of the subject, develops their critical thinking and introduces them to their discourse community.

Soft Skills in Engineers, a Relevant Field of Research: Exploring and Assessing Skills in Italian Engineering Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Caggiano ◽  
Teresa Redomero-Echeverría ◽  
Jose-Luis Poza-Lujan ◽  
Andrea Bellezza
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Reference Sample ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Change Perception ◽  
Emotional Adaptation ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
Relevant Field

Soft skills are important for any career and are necessary to access and face the labor market. This research focuses on soft skills by exploring engineer profiles. It also determines how soft skills are developed through the study of a representative sample of 314 undergraduate engineering students from 15 different Italian universities. The instrument used is a questionnaire that investigates soft skills and is based on the Business-focused Inventory of Personality (BIP). Answers are grouped into four areas: intrapersonal, interpersonal, activity development, and impression management. Results show that these engineers have more self-confidence than the reference sample; they demonstrated a great commitment in setting job goals and pursuing projects, a good emotional adaptation to social situations, and enough attitudes in terms of problem solving and openness to change. Perception on the ability to work under pressure is in the average, and they seem ready to take on challenging tasks. The score shows that engineers from the sample are able to express positive and negative ideas and feelings in balance with the reference average, but sometimes they have difficulties in establishing personal relationships. Therefore, they are unable to understand the moods of those who around them and may also have difficulty in understanding their expectations. This results in some difficulties in teamwork. The general result underlines the opportunity of empowerment programs regarding soft skills.

What are the risks of Virtual Reality data? Learning Analytics, Algorithmic Bias and a Fantasy of Perfect Data

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110127
Author(s):  
Marcus Carter ◽  
Ben Egliston
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Vr Training ◽  
Algorithmic Bias

Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging technology with the potential to extract significantly more data about learners and the learning process. In this article, we present an analysis of how VR education technology companies frame, use and analyse this data. We found both an expansion and acceleration of what data are being collected about learners and how these data are being mobilised in potentially discriminatory and problematic ways. Beyond providing evidence for how VR represents an intensification of the datafication of education, we discuss three interrelated critical issues that are specific to VR: the fantasy that VR data is ‘perfect’, the datafication of soft-skills training, and the commercialisation and commodification of VR data. In the context of the issues identified, we caution the unregulated and uncritical application of learning analytics to the data that are collected from VR training.

Empowering Technical and Soft Skills in Students and Young Professionals of the Oil&Gas Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Enrique Ardila Díaz ◽  
William Genghini Galvís ◽  
Sandra Juliana Jaramillo Medina ◽  
Alejandro Sanchéz ◽  
Sergio Velásquez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Enhanced Recovery ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Petroleum Engineering ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Training Stage ◽  
Technological Tool

Abstract To contribute to the construction of young professionals with an integral profile in which the competitive spirit is promoted through the resolution of a technological challenge applied to the Oil & Gas industry, under a scenario that demands a high degree of commitment and with the accompaniment of professionals with great experience in the industry. In accordance with the data acquired and the program's target population, an appropriate methodology has been established for the development and strengthening of technical and soft skills. This methodology consists of four main phases: 1. Challenge construction 2. Best Teams selection 3. Challenge Resolution and 4. Results presentation. During the challenge resolution phase, participants have multiple technical and soft skills training sessions where experienced professionals share their knowledge and experiences related to the challenge theme in an environment of generational knowledge transfer. During the last 4 years, around 120 participants from different cities of the country have managed to potentiate their soft skills and strengthen their knowledge in areas of the Oil & Gas industry such as unconventional, enhanced recovery, heavy oil, huff & puff, combustion had tests, wettability, waterflooding, among others and materialize it with the construction of an innovative technological tool. The best of each version was rewarded with their first work experience in the Oil & Gas industry where they were able to put into practice what they had learned during the program. Likewise, the continuous acquisition of valuable information about variables at the end of the program such as the knowledge areas of greatest interest for students and young professionals, the level of knowledge related to oil engineering and programming, the handling of a second language, and the skills acquired during the university training stage, has allowed strengthening the methodology of the"SPE en Sinergia" program, adjusting it to the current needs of the industry and placing the participants outside their comfort zone. The development of the program and the results obtained are based on the identification of the strengths and weaknesses currently displayed by students in their final semesters and young professionals in careers related to petroleum engineering in Colombia and that in one way or another have become part of the reasons why their link to the professional world has become more difficult. This has enabled a way to identify opportunities for improvement and establish lines of action to promote the professional fast-track development of the new generations in a joint effort between industry and academia.

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