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The lack of knowledge of a foreign language for specific purposes and the increasing internationalization of domestic markets cause many communicative difficulties at the corporate level. Inefficient communication slows down decision-making processes and lowers the quality of services offered. In this respect, soft skills are gaining more and more importance in professional environments. Considering the need for providing a high level of foreign language even at the interview level, the idea of soft skills oriented LSP teaching can close the existing gap in employee training and enhance employees’ chances for success in an international environment. This article presents results of a survey conducted among LSP teachers in Poland.
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Current legal studies curricula in Poland are still “analogue”, academic teachers themselves are still largely “analogue”, and students and articling students live in a different world: they are “digital natives”, in other words, “homo zappiens”, meaning “constantly clicking”. On the other hand, curricula and programmes are saturated almost exclusively with legal doctrines, but the market needs law graduates in economy, also with the knowledge of market, business and enterprise opinion principles, including special soft skills, completely different from those required for centuries in courts. The author presents arguments for the necessary reform of legal studies in connection with the above phenomena.
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The lack of knowledge of a foreign language for specific purposes and the increasing internationalization of domestic markets cause many communicative difficulties at the corporate level. Inefficient communication slows down decision-making processes and lowers the quality of services offered. In this respect, soft skills are gaining more and more importance in professional environments. Considering the need for providing a high level of foreign language even at the interview level, the idea of soft skills oriented LSP teaching can close the existing gap in employee training and enhance employees’ chances for success in an international environment. This article presents results of a survey conducted among LSP teachers in Poland.
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Many documents issued by the European Union and Human Resources experts point out that so called „soft” skills are closely connected with employability, particularly of young people entering the labour market. Nevertheless, at present, EU countries use different methodologies and approaches to the teaching and development of those skills, which leads to a mismatch between academic education and requirements of the labour market. In the project eLene4work: Learning to learn for new digital soft skills for employability ten European countries conduct research on soft skills expected by employers from new workers and possibilities to develop them (using also ICT tools) during studies. First step was to collect information about soft skills (what is needed, what is important, what should be improved etc.) during Focus Groups organised in each partner country. During these meetings the same set of questions was asked to participants. Results will be used to create common methodology for developing soft skills during studies. In this article results of Focus Groups in Poland are presented. The most interesting findings such as definitions of soft skills, list of most important ones, difficulties in their development and possibilities to solve problem of lack of those skills are described, not only from the perspective of student/young employee, but also employers and academic teachers.
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Theoretical background: Dominating most of the world models of linear economy threatens the environment and our lives, so it needs to be replaced by the circular economy (CE) model. However, its functioning requires educated, competent and ready-for-change citizens and consumers. Purpose of the article: An exploratory research was conducted on business students as consumers and potential future entrepreneurs to identify students’ readiness and preparation for CE. Research methods: The semi-structured survey was designed. Three hundred nineteen responses were collected from MCSU students. Main findings: Students must be sufficiently prepared to function in the circular economy. This applies to both competencies essential for the role of a consumer and a manager in CE. Higher education institutions (HEI) must take a challenge to stimulate circular entrepreneurship and influence the transformation of consumption style. Economic motives for consumption style change dominate over moral motives. There is a challenge to work on consumer awareness and entrepreneurial readiness. Positive examples of CE models and practices and appropriate didactic methods need to be implemented. Respondents underline that transformation toward CE requires the education of all society members. There is a need to continue research on the determinants of society’s readiness to move to CE.
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RESEARCH OBJECTIVE:The contemporary labour market places high demands on graduates of higher education who are looking for employment. There is a significant increase in employers’ requirements in the area of professional competence. This paper aims to present selected aspects of education and developing soft skills by students and  university graduates on the example of cosmetology subject. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS:The expectations of the labour market to graduates of higher education require a new approach for the development strategies and skills training at universities. Job offers contain, in addition to the requirements of the knowledge, experience, cognitive and linguistic skills - a number of desirable personality traits and interpersonal skills of the applicant, called soft skills. Scientific studies indicate a dynamically growing importance of soft skills, both in the process of recruiting new employees, as well as major determinants of employment stability and continuity of careers. The article presents some aspects of soft skills training and coaching courses organized for students and graduates of higher education on the example of cosmetology subject. The article attempts to organize the terminology associated with this issue  and then, based on the specifics of teaching adults, presents own experiences in the area of planning coaching courses.  THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATIONThis paper attempts to draw attention to the growing significance of university graduates’ background to proffesions requiring high degree of soft skills. Schoolings using activating teaching methoods foster building competences abilities that ensure professional flexibility and adaptability and help functioning in life. RESEARCH RESULTSThe article is the preliminary recognition of the analyzed problem. Author continued research in the area of impact of the activating methods on the development of the soft skills.   CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS:Schoolings described in this paper are planned as optional classes not included in curriculum. It is worth to consider including selected trainings as electives adapted to competence profiles of fields of study.
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The article discloses the possibility of training e-learning specialists to manage the IT infrastructure of educational institutions. The contents and results of lifelong learning competencies formation and professional competencies, skills, and soft skills in the course of “Managing the IT infrastructure of an educational institutions” are studied. Content training for specialists in e-learning is defined by such topics as “ICT policy and IT infrastructure of educational institutions,” “Program and technical solutions for building IT infrastructure of educational institutions,” “Using cloud technologies for IT infrastructure of educational institutions,” and presented as an e-course that includes educational materials and competence tasks that form a competence for lifelong learning (communication in mother tongue, communication in foreign languages, knowledge of mathematics and general knowledge in the field of science and technology, skills in digital media, training for gaining knowledge, social and civic skills, proactive position and practical approach, awareness and self-expression in culture) and professional competence (in educational, technical, managerial, and project activities). The feasibility of using competency tasks to prepare specialists in e-learning is confirmed by educational achievements of 94 full-time and part-time students. What is analysed are the students’ acquired soft skills (flexibility, teamwork, leadership, outgoingness, social skills, creativity).
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The article deals with the implementation of problem-based ESP learning in the educational process of prospective educators and shows its impact on development of softskills. The purpose of the study is to make theoretical hypotheses about the effectiveness of problem-based ESP learning for prospective educators and to test their level of softskills development empirically following its implementation. The article represents an overview of the main goals, principles and stages of problem-based ESP learning. The results of the study show that problem-based ESP learning empowers prospective educators with valuable softskills (critical thinking; independent search for information; analysis of information; cooperation with groupmates; emotional intelligence; solution of complex tasks; partner relationship with tutor) and motivates students to improve their ability to achieve good results in the educational process.
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W artykule zaprezentowano ocenę możliwości zastosowania coachingu jako metody rozwoju „miękkich” kompetencji zawodowych pracowników Odlewni Polskich S.A. w Starachowicach objętych Programem „Młoda Kadra – Przyszłość dla Firmy”. Przeprowadzone badania umożliwiły identyfikację menedżerów mających potencjał do roli coachów oraz ustalenie kompetencji pracowników objętych tym programem, które mogą być rozwijane przy pomocy tej metody. W ten sposób określono szanse wprowadzenia coachingu jako metody rozwoju pracowników Spółki. Realizację badań poprzedzono prezentacją najważniejszych teoretycznych aspektów metody coachingu oraz założeń Programu „Młoda Kadra – Przyszłość dla Firmy”.
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In the article the authors present the assesement of the coaching as a soft skills method in the development of competencies of employees in Odlewnie Polskie S.A. in Starachowice within a Programme „Young staff – future for the company”. The research enabled the identification of managers with coaching potential and competencies of employees within the programme, which can be futher developed. Chances for the implementation of coaching as a method of the employees development in the Company were indicated. Research was proceed by presentation of the most important theoretical aspects of the coaching method and rules of the programme „Young staff – future for the company
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Oczekuje się, że uniwersytety będą w stanie zapewnić studentom zarówno wiedzę teoretyczną, jak i umiejętności miękkie, które mogą zostać wykorzystane np. w pracy grupowej. Celem badań, przeprowadzonych przez Autorów na podstawie tego założenia, było znalezienie rozwiązań sprzyjających duchowi przedsiębiorczości w spółdzielniach studenckich obecnych na prywatnych uniwersytetach w Surabaya. Badanie oparte jest na populacji, w skład której wchodzili członkowie i administratorzy spółdzielni studenckich, które są częścią Studenckiego Stowarzyszenia Spółdzielczego Surabaya. Próbę badawczą stanowiło 150 osób, które przebadano wykorzystując kwestionariusz ankiety. Wyniki pokazały, że zaangażowanie uczniów we wspólne działania, zarówno członków, jak i administratorów, zachęciłoby do rozwoju ducha przedsiębiorczości. Analiza czynnikowa wykazała, że pewność siebie, przywództwo, kreatywność, podejmowanie ryzyka, zorientowanie na zadania i wyniki oraz perspektywy przyszłości były ważnymi zmiennymi wzrostu przedsiębiorczości. Można zatem stwierdzić, że spółdzielnie studenckie mogą być wykorzystywane jako miejsce do rozwijania umiejętności przedsiębiorczości studentów, tak aby prywatne uniwersytety w Surabaya mogły korzystać z tych informacji w celu rozwoju programów szkolenia umiejętności miękkich.
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Universities are expected to be able to provide students with both theoretical knowledge and the soft skills to use them through student cooperatives. Based on this, our research aims to find solutions to foster entrepreneurial spirit in student cooperatives present in private universities in Surabaya. This study drew its population from members and administrators of student cooperatives who are part of the Surabaya Student Cooperative Association. The sample was taken from 150 people, using a questionnaire for data taking. The results showed that the involvement of students in cooperative activities, both as members and administrators, would encourage growth in entrepreneurial spirit. Factor analysis proved that self-confidence, leadership, creativity, risk-taking, task- and result-oriented, and future-oriented outlooks were important variables of entrepreneurship growth. Thus, it can be concluded that student cooperatives can be used as a place to encourage development of student entrepreneurship skills, so that private universities in Surabaya are able to use this information to address soft skill development.
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The article focuses on the question how to examine the general ways of integration into the learning process of measures to develop and improve social competence for students in higher education on the example of Europe Bologna-System and implementation in Ukraine of the international project Tempus “Impress”. Establishment of studying social competence, unfortunately, does not have the large-scale nature, though, according to the Bologna program is one of the main factors in formation of a highly valuable person. The same situation we have in Ukraine. But today many institutions of higher education abroad already offer their students courses on the subject “Soft Skills”. In such courses the students learn to analyze the positive and negative aspects of their character, to get effective, proven in practice, knowledge and techniques, that are necessary by improving their skills. Necessary changes are made in the curriculum, which involve not only seminars and workshops on the subject, but also binding activity of students in the social field and in the cells of government. The results of these activities are rated by teachers as any of the traditional subjects and are included to the general number of time credits provided for a specialty. Basic principles of the Bologna process are provided in our country in the implementation of the international project TEMPUS “IMPRESS” – “Improved student services”. The main goal is to create a modern center of student support services at leading classic universities of Ukraine. One of the project results was the creation of the newest course “Soft Skills”, developed on the basis of modern international academic standards. The research shows that the integration into the learning process of the subject “Social competence” has a positive impact on society. Employment in the public sphere raises the self-esteem of a student and his civic competence, sharpens his attention to the problems of politics and society, and teaches the objective evaluation of reality and understanding other people. Public institutions will benefit from the employment of young energetic professionals, open to innovation and change. Educational institutions, that have provided training students to use their own potential in all fields, are of great authority among other schools.
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Głównym celem artykułu jest analiza zależności między migracją międzynarodową, wydarzeniami życiowymi związanymi z wchodzeniem w dorosłość i nabywaniem kompetencji miękkich w wyniku pracy i życia za granicą. Artykuł powstał na podstawie ankiety internetowej przeprowadzonej wiosnąi latem 2020 roku wśród 740 polskich i litewskich migrantów powrotnych zWielkiej Brytanii, którzy wrócili do Polski i na Litwę. Migracje zagraniczne pomogły im, przede wszystkim, w nabyciu zarówno kompetencji komunikacyjnych w języku angielskim, jak i pracy zespołowej - kompetencji miękkich, które są ważne dla rozwoju kariery. W obu grupach migrantów powrotnych z Polski i Litwy migracje zagraniczne przyspieszyły trzy kluczowe procesy: 1. rozpoczęcie samodzielnego podejmowania decyzji; 2. uniezależnienie się finansowo od rodziców oraz 3. znalezienie stabilnego zatrudnienia. W obu grupach usamodzielnienie się finansowo wiązało się istotnie z wysokim poziomem kompetencji miękkich nabytych za granicą.
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The main aim of this article is to analyse the interplay between international migration, life events related to transition to adulthood and the acquisition of soft skills as a result of working and living abroad. The article is based on an online survey conducted in spring and summer 2020 among 740 Polish and Lithuanian return migrants from the UK who returned to Poland and Lithuania. International migration helped them, above all, to acquire both English language communication skills and to learn teamwork - soft skills which are important for career development. In both groups of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants, international migration accelerated three key processes: 1. starting to make independent decisions, 2. becoming financially independent from their parents and 3. finding stable employment. In both groups, becoming financially independent was linked significantly to the high level of soft skills acquired abroad.
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Niniejszy artykuł ma charakter postulatywny, jednakże przedstawione treści mogą przyczynić się do przeprowadzenia analizy porównawczej. Współczesny rynek pracy wymaga od pracowników szerokiej gamy umiejętności. Wśród nich znajdują się umiejętności twarde (hard skills) i umiejętności miękkie (soft skills). Umiejętności twarde to przede wszystkim umiejętności związane ze znajomością procedur pracy i techniczne. Umiejętności miękkie, uznawane za uniwersalne, to zdolności głównie społeczne i komunikacyjne. Według danych Berlińskiego Instytutu Badań Socjologicznych pracodawcy przy doborze współpracowników zwracają baczną uwagę na zestaw umiejętności miękkich. Uczelnie zdecydowały, że przyszli specjaliści muszą przygotować się do istniejącej sytuacji na rynku pracy. Helmut Wagner, Ilka Kajmak, Bettina Bartkowiak uważają, że praca nad kluczowymi umiejętnościami miękkimi powinna rozpocząć się już w czasach studenckich. Postulaty kształcenia i rozwijania umiejętności miękkich wśród studentów wydziałów organizacji i zarządzania poparto wybranymi przykładami.
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This article is postulative by nature. However, the presented content can be used for comparative analysis. The modern labor market requires from professionals a wide range of skills. There are hard skills and soft skills among them. Hard skills are primarily the skills associated with knowledge of rules and technical. Soft skills are considered universal, first of all, abilities social and communicative. Soft skills are considered universal; these abilities are mainly social and communicative. According to the Berlin Institute for Sociological Research, firm employers are increasingly paying attention to soft skills when recruiting staff. Universities have come to the conclusion that future professionals have to be prepared for the labor market situation and its requirements. Helmut Wagner, Ilka Kajmak, Bettina Bartkowiak believe that the work on key soft skills should begin since student years. The postulate of learning and developing soft skills among students in organizational and management faculties has been supported by selected examples.
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Aim. The research presents a division of soft skills important for better socialising and being. Methods. The main method was a questionnaire survey completed by 98 pupils in the 3rd year of the mentioned schools. Results. We briefly describe the findings of the self-reflective evaluations of the students of two high schools and how they perceive and appreciate their personality in terms of soft skills. We mainly focused on social and personality skills from several areas and divisions of soft skills. Conclusion. Education must pay more consistent attention to the development of these skills because it is soft skills and their use in life that will be key not only for the advancement of the individual but for the advancement of the entire society. Based on our findings from the questionnaire, we make some important recommendations for the students.
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This paper examines the International Student Competition on Place Brand­ing and Mediterranean Diet held in Fermo, Italy, in the context of the devel­opment of rural areas. This one-week food-related educational programme was organised by the University of Macerata’s Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism in collaboration with The Piceno Laboratory on the Mediterranean Diet, a local network of public and private stakehold­ers committed to the promotion of Fermo area as a touristic destination based on traditional gastronomy. The aim of this study was to understand how and to what extent such food-related educational events may con­tribute to providing students with the knowledge, expertise and soft skills needed for careers in the food tourism sector. Of interest also was how such events may benefit the development of rural areas. The ISC was founded in 2016 and continued in 2017, 2018 and 2019. In order to assess students’ perceptions about the experience, specifically regarding what they felt they had learned about food tourism, and which soft skills they had acquired or honed, 13 students who participated in the 2017 event were interviewed for a qualitative study. Moreover, the authors drew upon information gleaned from interactions with students and teachers, as well as with several important actors of the local food and tourism sector, in­cluding tourism and hospitality entrepreneurs and representatives of gov­ernment agencies, with whom they collaborated in the context of planning, running and evaluating the events. The findings show that the ISC can provide students with a good general understanding of the territory and practical knowledge about place branding and food tourism. In terms of career preparation, the combination of fieldwork activities with traditional lectures and group activities was particularly fruitful in promoting soft skills such as communication, efficient use of social media, teamwork, problem-solving and decision making.
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The aim of the publication is to present new models of education appropriate to the twenty-first century and the needs of modern network society. The article presents a comprehensive substantiation for necessity changes in education, resulting from technological development, as well socio-cultural changes. The article characterizes selected models of education of the future: a new culture of learning, the school as a learning organization, so-called turquoise education, and education for wisdom and spirituality. It is emphasized that essential for the new models are new interpersonal relationships and basing on humanistic values rather than on new technologies.
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Kompetencje społeczne żołnierzy i kadry dowódczej kształtowały się, gdy powstawały armie narodowe, a w przypadku Polski – tworzyło się Wojsko Polskie. Troską dowódcy było takie przygotowanie i wychowanie żołnierzy, by w czasie wojny mogli bronić obywateli i państwa.
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The social competences of soldiers and commanders were shaped when national armies were formed, and in the case of Poland - the Polish Army was being formed. The commander's concern was to prepare and educate soldiers so that they could defend citizens and the state during the war.
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Current legal studies curricula in Poland are still “analogue”, academic teachers themselves are still largely “analogue”, and students and articling students live in a different world: they are “digital natives”, in other words, “homo zappiens”, meaning “constantly clicking”. On the other hand, curricula and programmes are saturated almost exclusively with legal doctrines, but the market needs law graduates in economy, also with the knowledge of market, business and enterprise opinion principles, including special soft skills, completely different from those required for centuries in courts. The author presents arguments for the necessary reform of legal studies in connection with the above phenomena.
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Aktualne programy studiów prawniczych w Polsce mają wciąż charakter „analogowy”, nauczyciele akademiccy w dużej części są nadal „analogowi”, a studenci i aplikanci zamieszkują inny świat: to „digitalni (cyfrowi) tubylcy”, inaczej mówiąc to homo zappiens, czyli „nieustannie klikający”. Z drugiej strony programy są przesycone prawie wyłącznie dogmatyką prawa, a rynek potrzebuje absolwentów prawa do gospodarki, także z wiedzą o zasadach działania rynku, biznesu i przedsiębiorstw, w tym ze specjalnymi miękkimi kompetencjami, zupełnie innymi niż wymagane są od wieków w sądach. Autorka przedstawia argumenty na rzecz koniecznej reformy studiów prawniczych w związku z powyższymi zjawiskami.
Rocznik Lubuski
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2016
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vol. 42
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issue 2a
215-228
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This study seeks to understand what is the role of international migration in double transition: university-to-work-abroad and adulthood. The article assumes that schoolto- work transition is not a single event, but a phase of the life cycle. There is a time of looking for ones’ own career and life path. Migration is connected with the phase of growing up, the phase of maturing and cutting the umbilical cord with the parental home. This case study is about young Polish university graduates who took their first job(s) abroad and therefore transited somehow to adulthood. It was found out that this process where migration is involved is not flat and linear and is composed of four components (1) capitalizing in a foreign environment accumulated, up to migration, non-material resources; (2) crossing own mental borders; (3) building up relations with ‘other’ others; (4) building up labour market autonomy. This study utilises data from the first wave of qualitative longitudinal study (QLS). Thirty in-depth interviews were conducted with Polish university graduates age between 25 and 34.
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Artykuł ma na celu odpowiedź na pytanie, jaka jest rola migracji międzynarodowych w podwójnym przejściu: z edukacji do pracy za granicą oraz w dorosłość. Przejście z edukacji do pracy jest traktowane nie jako jednorazowe zdarzenie, ale faza cyklu. Jest to czas poszukiwania własnej ścieżki kariery i miejsca na rynku pracy. Doświadczenie migracji w młodym wieku wiąże się z koniecznością dojrzewania, wyrywaniem korzeni i odcięciem pępowiny. Opracowanie dotyczy młodych polskich absolwentów szkół wyższych, którzy podjęli swoje pierwsze aktywności na zagranicznym rynku pracy, co wiązało się z wchodzeniem w dorosłość w obcym kontekście społecznym. Proces wchodzenia w dorosłość poprzez podjęcie pierwszych aktywności zawodowych za granicą jest złożony z czterech etapów: (1) kapitalizacją wszystkich zgromadzonych wcześniej (na migracji i przed) zasobów niematerialnych, (2) przekraczaniu własnych granic mentalnych; (3) tworzeniu relacji z innymi; (4) tworzeniu autonomii rynku pracy. Przedstawione analizy wykorzystują dane z I fali jakościowego badania podłużnego (Qualitative Longitudinal Study), w ramach której przeprowadzono 30 wywiadów pogłębionych z osobami pomiędzy 25 a 34 rokiem życia.
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W epoce ponowoczesności rynek pracy ulega nieustannym przekształceniom. Badacze skoncentrowali się na temacie oczekiwań formułowanych przez pracodawców w ogłoszeniach o pracę. Opisano: zawartość treściową wymagań stawianych przed kandydatami w zakresie kompetencji twardych i miękkich, odsetek zawierających je ogłoszeń oraz proporcję ich występowania. Analizie poddano 325 ofert pracy dotyczących 13 różnych branż. Zaczerpnięto je z popularnych serwisów rekrutacyjnych. Wyniki analizy umożliwiają wnioskowanie na temat różnic w popycie na określone kompetencje w zależności od badanego obszaru zatrudnienia.
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In postmodern times, the job market is constantly undergoing changes. Researchers have focused on the topic of expectations formulated by employers in job offers. The following has been described: content of the hard and soft skill requirements expected of the candidates, percentage of job offers featuring those and proportions of their occurrence. 325 job offers from 13 different sectors have been analysed. They had been taken from popular job recruitment services. The results of the analysis enable forming conclusions about differences in demand for specific skills between different sectors.
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