Add 'Soft' Skills to 'Hard' Education Before Graduation

journal for School of loco Knocks

Important skills that employers look for in graduates,
and suggestions to equip graduates accordingly

Add woolly skills to hard education before graduation

Fiq Abdullah, March 2012

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Journal for School of Soft Knocks

Abstract

Less than half the fresh graduates in Malaysia do not find a job deep d possess six months upon
graduation.
Employers blame graduates shortfalls in generic competencies (cognitive, social, emotional).
Resulting idling, discontinuity and re-training make for spacious costs to graduates and
employers as well as to economy and society. many an(prenominal) graduates eventually end up sidestepping and hopping jobs, with consequences to workforce quantity, work persona and
depth in the respective fields of knowledge.
Academics - handling search as well as education - are asked to memorise and train students
explicitly the generic competencies; this should benefit also their own cause.
Key words: graduates, competencies, soft skills, employability

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Journal for School of Soft Knocks

Table of contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................4
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Learning generic competencies complementing academic knowledge .................................5
2.1. Skills that employers stomach from graduate employees..................................................5
2.2. What are soft skills?........................................................................................................6
2.3. Why are soft skills important? ........................................................................................7
2.4. Soft skills sought after by employers..............................................................................7
2.4.1. social skills ...................................................................................................8
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