A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON SOFT SKILLS FOR EMPLOYABILITY
Science mapping was utilized in this systematic review of research to analyze the body of knowledge on soft skills for employability. The research review selected high impact articles, charted the "intellectual structure", and recorded the volume, development rate, and geographical spre...
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National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
2024-12-01
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| description | Science mapping was utilized in this systematic review of research to analyze the body of knowledge on soft skills for employability. The research review selected high impact articles, charted the "intellectual structure", and recorded the volume, development rate, and geographical spread of this literature. Forty-five English-language, Scopus-indexed documents that were published between 2013 and 2023 made up the database of this review. The review revealed that the documents on soft skills for employability has slightly grown over the recent years with an average of 6 documents published in each year of 2017 to 2021. The field was mostly dominated by scholars from Europe and Asia. Four "schools of thought" were identified through author co-citation analysis as the "intellectual structures” of soft skills for employability. These are: Soft Skill Development of Students, Employers’ Expectations on Graduates, Key Soft Skills, and Measuring Employability. Analysis of the document content resulted in the conclusion that there is a clear agreement in the literature that employability and career preparedness are difficult notions that cannot be simply defined, quantified, or put into practice. A significant gap between the demands of the actual world and our educational system in terms of soft skills has been determined. The research recommends "skillfying the syllabus" or "skillification" in order to guarantee that soft skills are taught in the curriculum. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-653fd128296d43508fe3fc536ebda0d12025-08-20T02:13:27ZengNational Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"Novìtnâ Osvìta2409-33512410-82862024-12-0120021210.20535/2410-8286.314064352604A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON SOFT SKILLS FOR EMPLOYABILITYChristian Villegas0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1939-388XPolytechnic University of the Philippines,De La Salle UniversityScience mapping was utilized in this systematic review of research to analyze the body of knowledge on soft skills for employability. The research review selected high impact articles, charted the "intellectual structure", and recorded the volume, development rate, and geographical spread of this literature. Forty-five English-language, Scopus-indexed documents that were published between 2013 and 2023 made up the database of this review. The review revealed that the documents on soft skills for employability has slightly grown over the recent years with an average of 6 documents published in each year of 2017 to 2021. The field was mostly dominated by scholars from Europe and Asia. Four "schools of thought" were identified through author co-citation analysis as the "intellectual structures” of soft skills for employability. These are: Soft Skill Development of Students, Employers’ Expectations on Graduates, Key Soft Skills, and Measuring Employability. Analysis of the document content resulted in the conclusion that there is a clear agreement in the literature that employability and career preparedness are difficult notions that cannot be simply defined, quantified, or put into practice. A significant gap between the demands of the actual world and our educational system in terms of soft skills has been determined. The research recommends "skillfying the syllabus" or "skillification" in order to guarantee that soft skills are taught in the curriculum.https://ae.fl.kpi.ua/article/view/314064soft skillsemployabilityhigher educationgraduatesemployers |
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| title | A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON SOFT SKILLS FOR EMPLOYABILITY |
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