Are technical and soft skills required?

Lewis, Tracy L.; Smith, Wanda J.; Harrington, K. Vernard

doi:10.1145/1404520.1404530

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“…Some classical sets of soft skills are active listening, negotiating, conflict resolution, problem solving, critical thinking, ethics, and leadership skills (Dash, 2001; Gorman, 2000; Isaacs, 1998; Schulz, 1998). Soft skills complement the technical skills of a job (Lewis et al , 2008). According to Goleman (1995) the possession and use of soft skills contributes more to an individual's ultimate success or failure than technical skills or intelligence.…”

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Soft skills requirements in software development jobs: a cross‐cultural empirical study

Ahmed

Capretz

Bouktif

et al. 2012

Journal of Systems and Information Technology

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Different parts of the world have different cultures and culture has an impact on the way people perceive, plan and execute any assignment. The success and failure stories of software projects reveal that human factors are one of the significantly important issues. Psychological theories assert that people have different personality traits and these personality traits are pigeonholed by soft skills or emotional intelligence.Most of the studies carried out on human factor in software engineering concentrate primarily on personality traits. However, soft skills which largely determine personality traits have been given comparatively little attention by researchers from software engineering community. The main objective of this work is to find out whether employers' soft skills requirements, as advertised in job postings, within different roles of software development are similar across different cultures. We used a dataset of 500 job descriptions from four different regions of the world in this study. We found that in the cases of designer, programmer and tester substantial similarity exits for the requirements of soft skills whereas only in case of system analyst dissimilarity is present across different cultures.

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Soft skills requirements in software development jobs: a cross‐cultural empirical study

Ahmed

Capretz

Bouktif

et al. 2012

Journal of Systems and Information Technology

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“…This model emphasizes the need for a balance of hard skills and soft skills. In this sense, soft skills complement technical skills, so the ideal employees should possess both (Lewis, 2008).…”

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Hard Skills Versus Soft Skills: How Do they Affect Different Job Types of Japanese Language Graduates?

Setiana¹,

Setiawati²,

Mustaqim³

2019

IJLTER

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“…As software engineering ethics is a critical knowledge area in today's computing world, it is important to recognize that application of hard or technical skills in software development requires a balance with soft or behavioral skills [7], [8]. In agreement, [9]- [11] assert that the possession and use of soft skills contributes more to an individual's success or failure than technical skills or intelligence.…”

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Software Engineering Ethics Competency Gap in Undergraduate Computing Qualifications within South African Universities of Technology

Marebane¹,

Robert²

2021

IJACSA

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Computing graduates working as software engineers are expected to demonstrate competencies in various categories of software engineering ethics as a component of nontechnical skills that complement technical skills. Therefore, university programme offerings should provide opportunities for students to develop software engineering ethical competence. This study analyses curriculum documents to determine the extent to which entry-level undergraduate computing qualifications of Universities of Technology (UoTs) in South Africa provide opportunities to empower students with software engineering ethical competence. We used summative content analysis to analyze texts within the UoT computing undergraduate qualifications related to software development as retrieved from the South African Qualifications Authority database. ATLAS.ti text analysis tool was used to classify texts according to predetermined software engineering ethics categories to determine the extent to which the qualifications under study expose students to software engineering ethics. The results show that the coverage of the various categories of software engineering ethics by UoT computing qualifications for software development is insufficient, incomplete and superficial, providing only limited opportunities for prospective software engineers to develop software engineering ethical competence. Lack of adequate inclusion of software engineering ethics by UoT qualifications in South Africa deprives prospective software engineers an opportunity to develop ethical competence required to become ethically successful software engineers. Such limited exposure by software development graduates risks the development of potentially unethical software products in the software industry.

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Are technical and soft skills required?

Cited by 23 publications

References 37 publications

Soft skills requirements in software development jobs: a cross‐cultural empirical study

Soft skills requirements in software development jobs: a cross‐cultural empirical study

Hard Skills Versus Soft Skills: How Do they Affect Different Job Types of Japanese Language Graduates?

Software Engineering Ethics Competency Gap in Undergraduate Computing Qualifications within South African Universities of Technology

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