Development of Soft Skill Enhancement Plan for Chinese Students of Knowledge and Innovation Management Program
With the expansion of college enrollment year by year in China, the number of college graduates has increased sharply, which causes the employment problem among graduates to become more and more challenging. Therefore, society and employers put forward higher requirements for the graduates, not o...
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Format: | Independent Study |
Language: | English |
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เชียงใหม่ : บัณฑิตวิทยาลัย มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่
2020
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Online Access: | http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/69624 |
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Institution: | Chiang Mai University |
Language: | English |
Summary: | With the expansion of college enrollment year by year in China, the number of
college graduates has increased sharply, which causes the employment problem among
graduates to become more and more challenging. Therefore, society and employers put
forward higher requirements for the graduates, not only in academic talent, but also in
other compound abilities. Appropriate soft skills play an important role in successful
careers as well as social interactions. More and more organizations recognize how soft
skills in the workplace differentiate great employees from good ones, so these skills are
highly valued by employers looking for new graduates.
In order to make Chinese graduates become more competitive in the job market,
the aim of the research is to enhance Chinese students’ soft skills. Therefore, the
objective of this research are: 1) to investigate the soft skill problems of Chinese
graduates of Knowledge and Innovation Management Program at the early stage of their
career; 2) to identify most important soft skill based on the c ommon soft skills that
occupationally required in the Chinese job market and academically fostered for
graduates in Thailand; 3) to design a soft skill enhancement plan to improve Chinese
students’ soft skills. In this paper, the Chinese top 20 well-paid occupations are chosen
as a research sample. Double diamond designing process model, as a tool to solve
problems and improve service, provides a systematic process for the researcher to
achieve these objectives. Following the four stages including discover, define, developand deliver of the process, an interview is carried out to know the soft skills problems
and soft skill enhancement requirement among Chinese students, content analysis based
on O*Net Content Model and Thailand Qualification Framework (TQF ) for Higher
Education is used to analyze the common soft skills. After that, the five -star scale
questionnaire and interview are applied to define the most important soft skill. In-depth
is used to obtain the factors affecting graduates’ problem solving a bility. And
brainstorming is to help the researcher get suggestions of how to enhance these factors.
The findings show that the plan is useful to cultivate Chinese talent personnel to meet
the needs of the Chinese job market from the perspective of Chinese students’ feedback
and comparison between the factors and requirement of Chinese companies. |
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