The internship performance of undergraduate students: Are hard or soft skills more important?

IF 1.9 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Industry and Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-10-20 DOI:10.1177/09504222221127213

Mónica Franco-Ángel, Jaime Carabali, M. Velasco

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Higher education provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary for professional development. These are applied when students make the transition from the academic world to the world of work and allow them to generate value for organizations. This study analyzes the impact that hard and soft skills have on the performance of undergraduate students in their internships. The methodology uses multiple regression techniques on data from 2010 to 2021 from a sample of 6632 students in 25 undergraduate programs at Icesi University in Colombia. The results confirm the importance of both soft and hard skills and show that soft skills explain students’ performance to a greater extent. These findings can assist universities, faculty and organizations in developing the skills necessary for students to improve their performance, build successful careers and generate value for organizations.

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大学生实习表现:硬技能更重要还是软技能更重要?

高等教育为学生提供专业发展所需的知识和技能。当学生从学术世界过渡到工作世界时，这些都是适用的，并允许他们为组织创造价值。本研究分析了硬技能和软技能对大学生实习绩效的影响。该方法对哥伦比亚Icesi大学25个本科专业的6632名学生2010年至2021年的样本数据使用了多元回归技术。结果证实了软技能和硬技能的重要性，并表明软技能在更大程度上解释了学生的表现。这些发现可以帮助大学、教师和组织培养学生提高表现、建立成功的职业生涯和为组织创造价值所需的技能。

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Industry and Higher Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

4.20

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17.60%

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期刊介绍： Industry and Higher Education focuses on the multifaceted and complex relationships between higher education institutions and business and industry. It looks in detail at the processes and enactments of academia-business cooperation as well as examining the significance of that cooperation in wider contexts, such as regional development, entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems. While emphasizing the practical aspects of academia-business cooperation, IHE also locates practice in theoretical and research contexts, questioning received opinion and developing our understanding of what constitutes truly effective cooperation. Selected key topics Knowledge transfer - processes, mechanisms, successes and failures Research commercialization - from conception to product ''Graduate employability'' - definition, needs and methods Education for entrepreneurship - techniques, measurement and impact The role of the university in economic and social development The third mission and the entrepreneurial university Skills needs and the role of higher education Business-education partnerships for social and economic progress University-industry training and consultancy programmes Innovation networks and their role in furthering university-industry engagement