What employers look for: The skills debate and the fit with youth perceptions

A Taylor 1 - Journal of Education and work, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
The notion of skills shortage pervades the rhetoric of economic reform and calls for Australia
to become a skilled nation, and it is implicitly associated with conceptions of youth as …

Students' perception on developing conceptual generic skills for business: a knowledge-based approach

C Bratianu, EM Vatamanescu - VINE Journal of Information and …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The classical approach of teaching and learning mostly based on knowledge
transfer is questionable as knowledge life cycle is shortening and new type of jobs appear …

Assessing students' entrepreneurial skills needed in the knowledge economy

R Bejinaru - Management & Marketing, 2018 - sciendo.com
The purpose of this paper is to explore how students acquire entrepreneurial skills
requested by a knowledge economy, in a country with an emergent economy. Knowledge …

Applications of soft skills in engineering programme at polytechnic Malaysia

A Esa, A Selamat, S Padil, J Jamaludin - Procedia-Social and Behavioral …, 2014 - Elsevier
Rapid global economic development demands a more competitive workforce. Employers
nowadays prefer prospective employees who have high soft skills in professionalism and …

Validation of Modified Soft Skills Assessment Instrument (MOSSAI) for Use in Nigeria.

OA Aworanti, MB Taiwo, OI Iluobe - Universal Journal of Educational …, 2015 - ERIC
Currently, it has become an accepted norm nearly all over the globe to teach and assess soft
skills. However, in Nigeria, it is an emerging area of interest that needs to be addressed …

Training by the dashboard lights: Police training officers' perspectives

MA Tyler, WE Mckenzie - Studies in the Education of Adults, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Officially sanctioned workplace learning is on the increase. In the workplace, and particularly
in emergency response contexts, success with workplace learning is an unquestioned goal …

SoSTeM Model Development for Application of Soft Skills to Engineering Students at Malaysian Polytechnics.

A Esa, S Padil, A Selamat, MTM Idris - International Education Studies, 2015 - ERIC
Soft skills are some of the skills needed to ensure that graduates fulfill the needs of the job
market. Until 2010, almost 30% of unemployed graduates in Malaysia are technical …

Penerapan kemahiran generik menerusi kokurikulum di politeknik bagi memenuhi keperluan industri di Malaysia

A Esa - 2007 - eprints.uthm.edu.my
Kokurikulum merupakan satu daripada komponen yang penting dalam pembangunan
kurikulum di mana antara peranannya ialah mensosialisasikan, membina semangat …

[PDF][PDF] Soft skills construct for architecture graduate in accordance with industry requirements

P Suhaili, E Ahmad, MJA Ainah - International Journal of …, 2015 - kkgpublications.com
In line with the requirements of the job market, implementation of soft skills according to the
field of study is important in order to help graduates understand and apply soft skills in the …

[PDF][PDF] Cognitive strategies and school participation for students with learning difficulties.

S Lowe - 2010 - core.ac.uk
Students with learning difficulties comprise one of the main groups of children referred for
assessment to Australian occupational therapists. Teachers and parents typically express …