Employable Skills of Information Technology Graduates in the Philippines

Bringula, Rex P.; Balcoba, Alexander C.; Basa, Roselle S.

doi:10.1145/2910925.2910928

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“…In addition, the results of the study show that there is a need to enhance the quality of soft skills for future employees who enter the local workforce and soft skills are perceived by students and employers as relevant employability skills (Ajzen, 1991;Singh & Singh, 2008;Robles, 2012;Pritchard, 2013;Goswami, 2013;Williams, 2015;Bringula, Balcoba & Basa, 2016). These previous studies bring to light the importance of soft skills for professional growth and technical skills alone are not sufficient for success in the IT profession -soft skills like communication, problem solving, and teamwork are increasingly important.…”

Section: Soft Skillsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…There are 10 commonly noted soft skills related to jobs in the fields of business and computer technology were communications, critical and decision-making, interpersonal, negotiation, problem solving, self-confidence, self-management, teamwork and worth ethics (Williams, 2015;Singh & Singh, 2008;Pritchard, 2013;Robles, 2012;Bringula, Balcoba & Basa, 2016;Ajzen, 1991). A study conducted by Williams (2015) directly affects positive social change of college students by enhancing the quality of soft skills for their future employees.…”

Section: Soft Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A survey-questionnaire was developed based on surveys by other researchers (Williams, 2015;Singh & Singh, 2008); Pritchard, 2013;Robles, 2012;Bringula et al, 2016;Ajzen, 1991) and was modified by the researchers to include some additional items. The survey questionnaire is composed of two parts.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Exploring the importance of soft and hard skills as perceived by IT internship students and industry: A gap analysis

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2017

J. Technol. Sci. Educ.

162

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The research paper proposes a skills gap methodology that utilized the respondent experiences in the internship program to measure the importance of the Information Technology (IT) skills gap as perceived by IT students and the industry. The questionnaires were formulated based on previous studies, however, was slightly modified, validated and pilot tested to fit into the needs of the research. Respondents of this study were the IT students enrolled in internship while industry partners respondents were the internship supervisors of the IT students in their respected industries. Internship IT students were selected since they have a strong background on the needs of the company based on their internship experience. The findings of this study revealed that teamwork and communication skills are very important soft skills to be possessed by IT graduates as perceived by the respondents. Further, results reveal that there was no significant difference in the perception of the respondents in terms of the importance of soft skills. However, this finding contradicts the results in the case of hard skills were in there were a big range of disagreement on the importance of hard skills. IT students perceived that hard skills were very important while industry perceived hard skills were somewhat important. The study suggests that the university should enrich the soft skills and entry level hard skills component in the curriculum.

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Section: Soft Skillsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Soft Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring the importance of soft and hard skills as perceived by IT internship students and industry: A gap analysis

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2017

J. Technol. Sci. Educ.

162

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“…A regional study in Philippines, for instance, found the biggest divergence in training for problem solving, which educators considered slightly more important than practitioners did; in other areas, however, there were no statistically significant differences [5]. Both groups, for example, placed a high degree of emphasis on training in information technology tools, critical thinking, communication, teamwork, and many of the other skills that appear in Table 1.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, one study of the software industry in Philippines revealed a significant disconnect between the perceptions of workers about their weak human relations and collaboration skills (particularly leadership), versus perceptions of educators [5].…”

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