A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Competencies Required in Future Working Life
Authors: Liikamaa Kirsi, Korin Heidi
Editors: Jussi Ilari Kantola, Salman Nazir, Vesa Salminen
Conference name: International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
Publishing place: Cham
Publication year: 2021
Journal: Lecture notes in networks and systems
Book title : Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Human Factors, Business Management and Society, and Human Factors in Management and Leadership, July 25-29, 2021, USA
Series title: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume: 267
First page : 212
Last page: 219
ISBN: 978-3-030-80875-4
eISBN: 978-3-030-80876-1
ISSN: 2367-3370
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80876-1_28
The social competences of the members of a community are learned in practical work. However, for people to perform their duties efficiently, personal and social competencies that are required in job roles need to be developed when working in new situations, with diversified teams, and with different cultures. In this paper, we present the results of a self-evaluation of 126 Finnish technical university students. The evaluation was performed using the Cycloid application. The focus of the paper is to identify the students’ views of the most important personal and social competencies among the 30 that have been identified in the project manager role. The analyses show that students who are at the beginning of their university studies need to develop especially their social competencies, such as leveraging diversity, understanding others, communication, and management as they grow in expertise. Social competences strengthen the lifelong learning of the individual’s personal and social competencies.
