Soft Skills in Online Job Advertisements : an Analysis of British Online Job Ads for Project Managers and System Engineers
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- In the working world, soft skills are nowadays considered as important as hard skills. Whereas hard skills are technical skills, soft skills are personal attributes that enable someone to work better. Job advertisements are one medium by which employers communicate which skills they expect from candidates. This thesis aims at identifying and analysing soft skills in 120 online job-advertisements. It focuses on one country, the United Kingdom, and four positions, namely non-senior / senior Project Managers and non-senior / senior System Engineers. Job advertisements were selected on four different job boards. The main purposes are to investigate which soft skills are frequent in those job adverts and how they are referred to. The theoretical part deals with the scientific literature about soft skills in the workplace as well as online job adverts. In the practical part, the process used to classify the soft skills found in the job ads is explained. The analysis highlights the major findings.