Les enjeux sociaux de la reconnaissance des compétences transversales

Abstract

L’importance des compétences transversales comme critère de recrutement et de progression dans les mondes académique et professionnel interroge les processus de formalisation et de réappropriation qui accompagnent leur reconnaissance. Cet article propose une réflexion autour de la construction d’outils normatifs, pédagogiques et évaluatifs, qui comporte des enjeux techniques (spécificité et hétérogénéité des compétences transversales) et sociaux (besoin de rendre accessibles la sémantique des compétences transversales et la démarche de réflexivité qu’elles nécessitent).

Career Trajectories of Higher Education Graduates: Impact of Soft Skills

“…These are becoming a sought-after resource in selection processes, and in most of the testimonies of professionals, we find the principle that cross-cutting skills are decisive, with equivalent technical skills for several candidates (Bauvet 2019). The pioneering work of Green et al (1999) in Great Britain notably emphasized the weight of certain relational, attitudinal and motivational skills in the recruitment phase, which would be more important to the employer than technical skills (Albandea and Giret 2016).…”

“…Soft skills are also called cross-cutting skills. They are becoming more and more important in the recruitment strategies of companies due to the transformation of professions, the obsolescence of technical skills but also the obsolescence of knowledge (Bauvet 2019). In this context, Mauléon et al (2014) state that it is impossible to incorporate behavioral skills into robots, "the evolution of the world of work, especially with robotization, automation and artificial intelligence, forces us to rely on human capital, thus soft skills" (Mauléon et al 2014).…”