Essential Soft Skills for Success in the Twenty-First Century Workforce as Perceived by Business Educators
By Geana W. Mitchell, Leane B. Skinner, B. White. 2010
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Citations in the corpus
- Beyond Interpersonal Competence: Teaching and Learning Professional Skills in Sustainability (2017, background): “The need for “mastering soft skills for workplace success” has been well established [5,6].”
- Teaching Soft Skills to Business Students (2016, background): “Some reports have suggested that college—and even some MBA graduates—lack important soft skills, such as communication, writing, oral presentation skills, and interpersonal skills (Andrews & Higson, 2008; Bedwell, Fiore, & Salas, 2013; Mitchell et al., 2010; Tugend, 2013).”
- Importance of Soft Skills for Education and Career Success (2012, background): “Employers usually prefer to see a fine blend of competencies in their staff and, in addition to discipline-based knowledge and skills, adequate levels of soft skills are considered desirable for moving forward in the career [2].”
- Soft Skills for Entry-Level Engineers: What Employers Want (2021, background): “Mitchell, Skinner, and White, 2010 [49] (over 350 citations) Business graduates Recruiters Positive attitude, being respectful, trustworthy, honest and ethical, taking initiative and responsibility, being co-operative and a team player, possessing good communication and interpersonal skills, being a”
- Executive Perceptions of the Top 10 Soft Skills Needed in Today’s Workplace (2012, background): “Much research has been done on the importance of soft skills in the workplace (Klaus, 2010; Maes, Weldy, & Icenogel, 1997; Mitchell et al., 2010; Nealy, 2005; Smith, 2007).”