2020
DOI: 10.1108/et-03-2019-0060
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The gap in soft skills perceptions: a dyadic analysis

Abstract: PurposePrevious studies have shown that soft skills play a significant role in applicants' employability and in the job search, recruitment, selection and hiring process. However, past research indicates a gap in perceptions of soft skills, between employees and employers. The present empirical research aims to explore this gap in perceptions and to suggest effective ways to resolve any mismatch. Demographical factors affecting these perceptions are also taken into consideration for the analysis.Design/methodo… Show more

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“…Bano and Vasantha (2019) noted that lack of quality education and inadequate infrastructural facilities influence employability skills gap. Tsirkas et al (2020) submitted that neglect of soft skill development across institutions, the inadequacy of training and development of soft skills in the working environments and underestimation of soft skills' value by the employees and reluctance in developing them influenced skill gap among graduate employees. The prevalence of students studying courses that they never intended due to the inability of students to get their desired course also contributes to the rising skill gap, especially in the real estate sector (Ayodele et al , 2017).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Bano and Vasantha (2019) noted that lack of quality education and inadequate infrastructural facilities influence employability skills gap. Tsirkas et al (2020) submitted that neglect of soft skill development across institutions, the inadequacy of training and development of soft skills in the working environments and underestimation of soft skills' value by the employees and reluctance in developing them influenced skill gap among graduate employees. The prevalence of students studying courses that they never intended due to the inability of students to get their desired course also contributes to the rising skill gap, especially in the real estate sector (Ayodele et al , 2017).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, in their comparison of the cooperative learning model with other pedagogical models, Wehrs (2020) fails to find evidence of the model’s superiority regarding the development of soft skills. There is also a gap in the perception of soft skills between employees and employers: Tsirkas and Chytiri (2020) find that employees are more likely to overestimate their skills than employers, and employers largely perceive employees as not properly equipped with the required soft skills. More recently, Herbert et al .…”
Section: Personal Skillsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, this enables one to become more economically valuable and enriched in numerous areas, presenting comprehensive skills sets to any potential labour market. However, the reality is that employees seem to regard their skills more highly than their employers that consider employees as not adequately equipped with the necessary soft skills (Tsirkas et al, 2020). Therefore, a critical requisite for education would comprise critical thinking, ethical thinking and inter-cultural awareness (Penpras, 2018) which would allow for the informed and thoughtful application of developing technologies.…”
Section: Review Of Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%