Second Survey School and WOW.pdf

WORKING GROUP: SCHOOL
At the other hand, according to a survey in Greece to enterprises for the requested
competences, the representatives of the enterprises declare that the candidates are very
competitive to the typical requests, for example bachelor and master degrees but they have
not developed at all their soft skills.
In a competitive labour market where the 75% of candidates has a bachelor degree, is obvious
that the candidate who will make the difference and became employee is the candidate who
will have developed the professional and personal soft skills.
At the same survey, the representatives of the enterprises note that candidates have obvious
difficulties and problems to be adapted to the work place. Most of the young people have
never deal with a lot of things the same time, so they are not multitasked. Some of the key
words and most required competences are the problem solving skills, communication skills,
multitasking skills, leadership skills, adaptation skills, learning how to learn, and creative
thinking, negotiation skills. In addition, personal qualities like responsibility, self‐esteem,
sociability, self‐management, integrity and honesty are considered as precious characteristics.
Mainstream competencies:
Resources management: allocating time, money, materials, space, personnel.
Interpersonal skills: team work, teaching others, serving customers, developing leadership,
negotiating and working with people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Information management: acquiring and evaluating data, organising and maintaining files,
interpreting and communicating, operating computers.
Systemic comprehension: understanding complex interrelationships, understanding systems,
monitoring and correcting performance, designing or improving systems.
Technological command: selecting technologies, applying technology to the task, providing
maintaining and troubleshooting equipment.
In a wider framework, the two basic key words for transition could be the words “adaptation”
and “flexibility”. According to recent researches we change about seven jobs during our life
and about 15 work placements and employers. As a result, students have to deal with the idea
of changing jobs, professions and probably and education.
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Motivation
Responsibility
The giving and receiving of feed‐back
Working together
Concentration
Assertiveness
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