TITLE:
Soft Skills by Engineering Employers
AUTHORS:
Débora Barni de Campos, Luis Mauricio Martins Resende, Alexandre Borges Fagundes
KEYWORDS:
Soft Skills, Engineering Employers, Job Market
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.11 No.10,
October
27,
2020
ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to understand and compare the expectation and
perception of 40 engineering employers regarding the soft skills in Engineers. The most important soft skills for an Engineering
professional, identified through a systematic bibliographic review, were
arranged into six groups, as follows: critical thinking, creative thinking,
communication, teamwork, ethical perspective and emotional intelligence. The
chosen methodology for data analysis was a fuzzy logic, in order to preserve
the subjectivity inherent to soft skill. Forty psychologists were also
interviewed and the delphi method was used to include their perceptions between
soft skills for calibration of the fuzzyTECH software. The results obtained
with the fuzzyfication of the data revealed that the perception of employers of
soft skills in engineering professionals is not inline to their expectations in
the scenario they are inserted.