What Employers Actually Want

Muller, Noël; Safir, Abla

doi:10.1596/31884

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“…The study showed that language skills, in addition to other skills listed in the job advertisement, are in demand in a large proportion of occupations, both on the domestic and foreign markets. The study by Muler and Safir (2019) confirms the finding of the present study. It used data from the World Bank to estimate employer demand for cognitive, socio-emotional and technical skills of employees and examined online job advertisements on Ukrainian job websites.…”

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“…Their study showed that language skills, in addition to other skills listed in the job advertisement, are in demand in a large part of the professions, both on the domestic and foreign markets. The study by Muler and Safir (2019), using data from the World Bank, estimated employer demand for cognitive, socio-emotional and technical skills among employees and examined online job postings on Ukrainian job websites. The study found that foreign language skills account for a significantly higher share of demand than other specific-cognitive skills across all job postings in the same category, and rank second among the other fourteen cognitive skills after communication skills.…”

Section: Language Communication Skills For Employabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Demands of the Employers for Foreign Language Skills in Job Advertisements in Three Baltic Countries

Kiškytė

2023

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Recent studies showed that language knowledge has, increasingly, become a value-add attribute that helps businesses to implement and satisfy their corporate goals in the globalized world as its services are highly demanded by employers in parallel to so-called hard skills in job advertisements. The paper presents a quantitative content-based analysis of foreign language knowledge requirements listed in job advertisements. The study results are based on data assessment from online job websites. The scope of the study was five industries-information technology, finance and accounting, organization and management, technical engineering, and customer service in three Baltic States - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The dataset consists of one thousand four hundred forty-two (N=1442) job advertisements written in English, published on the job portal, and examined from September 2021 to September 2022. The study results revealed that foreign language communication has become an obligatory attribute of the examined industries in the Baltic States and an indispensable characteristic of any working position. Labour market in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia seeks a candidate with highly fluent foreign language skills, advanced expression of thoughts and communication, able efficiently to present thoughts, ideas or comments and communicate correctly.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Language Communication Skills For Employabilitymentioning

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Demands of the Employers for Foreign Language Skills in Job Advertisements in Three Baltic Countries

Kiškytė

2023

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“…It appears that the common educational goals have been referring to in-demand skills in regard to the employability (Tuzlukova & Heckadon, 2020). A similar effort was depicted by Muller and Safir (2019), which attempted to identify the present job demands in Ukraine by using several methods, including web scraping to extract vacancies data, and then following with a content analysis of job postings. Thus, to generate indemand skills and vacancies, it could be done by accessing the job portal website that is published to the public.…”

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“…The skills possessed by someone can inform their future professional job direction. According to Muller and Safir (2019), actual job opportunities prioritize skills over diplomas for their employees. Furthermore, emerging digitalization and shifts in information technology have resulted in a readjustment of necessary skills for obtaining a job position (García-Pérez et al, 2021).…”

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Fully Online In-demand Skill Training: Understanding Participant’ Reason and Reaction

Rahmi Batita,

Wedi,

Sulthoni

2023

JTET

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Gaining skillswill aid the youth generation to obtain careeropportunities and while also making their workforce efficient and in line with the current industry in the era of the 21st century. However, skill demands by industry are typically gained outside formal education settings. Thus, a new paradigm of learner-directed study has emerged as a promising development for educational sectors. This study proposes a skill-based training based on the in-demand hard-skill industry in online settings, and an investigation of participant reason and reactions to the training. The study attempted online training in the topics of User Interface and User Experience (UIX) and Social Media Marketing, which were discovered to be in demand within the Indonesian workforce. The study was able to employ 434 Indonesian registrants, however, only 151 were able to complete the post-training questionnaire. The study's analysis revealed that the majority of participants were university students looking to improve their skill setsbefore entering the job market. The learners responded positively to the training procedures and learning approaches. This study concluded that skill-based online training has the potential to improve industry-required skills.

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“…One fundamental problem is that higher education, with some exceptions, is not designed to prepare students for life outside college. Consistent employer input attests to the profound and persistent disconnect between the competencies the workplace requires and what (and how) schools are teaching (Flaherty, 2021). For example, while the prevailing model is organized by major fields of study, most employers seek graduates with human or enduring skills rather than specific majors or even technical skills.…”

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New Models of Higher Education

Davis¹

2020

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education

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There are certain policy barriers that are preventing alternative credentials from fully maturing in the national discourse in the way that academic degrees have. This chapter will review three primary areas of policy concern: quality assurance and accountability, financial policy, and standards of documentation and interoperability. This chapter calls for the establishment of universal quality and accountability policy and mechanisms, opening more financing opportunities so that workers may have increased access to lifelong skills development, developing a unified way to document learning experiences across institutions, and forging a common currency that allows for interoperability of learners' credentials. Policy improvements for alternative credentials will help serve to further legitimize them in the public eye, improve their educational outcomes, and perhaps most importantly, enable a more coherent vision for alternative credentials as a central pillar of a national educational attainment strategy.

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What Employers Actually Want

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Demands of the Employers for Foreign Language Skills in Job Advertisements in Three Baltic Countries

Demands of the Employers for Foreign Language Skills in Job Advertisements in Three Baltic Countries

Fully Online In-demand Skill Training: Understanding Participant’ Reason and Reaction

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