Education Beyond Academic Knowledge For Seniors

At Vietnamese Universities: The Importance Of Soft Skills.

I. Introduction:
The Vietnamese labor market is becoming challenging for seniors and fresh
graduate student when employers regularly complain about the lack of soft skills.
According to the Requiring Soft Skills For Labors In Integrating Period of Associate
professor PhD. Ha Nam Khanh Giao, University of Finance – Marketing, the skills
training programs are highly concentrated on theory training. The report shows that
83% of graduates are assessed as lack of soft skills, 37% of them could not find
suitable jobs due to weak skills, 50% of unskilled workers do not have skills they
need, and some of them must be retrained or supplemented with their skills. Foreign
companies in Vietnam have also commented that workers lack of soft skills for work.
Most of foreign enterprises have to retrain their employees to start working
effectively. Soft skills are often known as personal skills, non-academic skills,
interpersonal skills, employable skills, behavioral skills, non-technical skills, social
skills, and emotional intelligence. Soft skills refer to specific professional traits that
people may have such as the capacity for teamwork, communication, leadership, and
problem-solving abilities. Moreover, in the recent years, employers in Vietnam
continuously require graduates to have more than 5 essential soft skills to be better
in their workspace. For those reasons, to give final year students in Vietnam a better
career development approach, this research is to clarify the importance of soft skill
training and offers some ways to improve their crucial working skills. The study is
structured into five parts. There are:
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Methods
4. Result and Discussion
5. Conclusion