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Role of Soft Skill and Personality Development
Abstract
Personality development is becoming a significant aspect in the evolution of a student in the echelons of higher education. The acquisition of ‘soft’ skills such as ethics, emotional intelligence, language and communication, legal and management aspects besides one’s professional field is necessary and crucial for holistic education. The desire in a young professional to create a strong positive impression about the self in intellectual and social circles is paramount. Hence he feels that the inculcation of values and skills are imperative for him before embarking upon the world where he will have to take complete charge of his life.In educational institutions there is an ever-growing demand from aspirants for a course to groom them for interviews, seminars and discussion so that they succeed. The educationists as a result are shifting their focus on devising scientific ways by taking help of educational technology to fulfill this valid need of the students. So, personality development has come to be considered as a value-addition to the qualified scientists and engineers in the era of globalization where they might be called upon to share their ideas and knowledge across cultures and continents. And this interaction can only be beneficial if they excel in communication skills. Therefore such skills have become an essential requisite for sharing ideas and knowledge and for carrying out beneficial interaction.
Key Words: Personality, soft skill, self image, social skill, adolescence
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p>The challenge in education field these days rises as the cause of society’s expectation for higher education. This increasingly complex expectation demands that higher education prepares the students to gain integrity. Higher education provides not only hard skills for the student, but also soft skills. By observing the hard skills side, Dewiyani [1] discovers a learning method based on cognitive process that is classified by personality types. This finding is proved to be effective in enabling students to solve problems. By utilizing the finding as well as employing qualitative and development methods, this research serves a purpose of developing learning method that can improving students’ soft skills attributes based on personality types. This leads to the conclusion that the cognitive process will also have the same influence on personal and interpersonal behaviors. The findings gained from this research demonstrate that soft skills attribute showed by every personality is various and it can be improved through the application of learning models that put forward cognitive process based of personality type classification. According to the gained findings, it is recommended that this learning model can be expanded to cover other subjects in higher education syllabus</p
Need of soft skills for professional students
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