Table 3.
Taxonomy of the surveyed skills.
| CLUSTER 1 | CLUSTER 2 Definition | CLUSTER 3 | CLUSTER 3 Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOFT SKILLS | Interpersonal Skills enabling work with others more efficiently | Complex Problem-Solving | Abilities that influence the acquisition and application of knowledge in complex problem-solving. |
| Communication Skills | Ability to convey, transfer and receive information, ideas and feelings. Subcategories included Communication—interpersonal, communication via IT. | ||
| Organisational/Managerial Skills | Capacity to manage one's time and planning with others, motivate, develop, and direct people as they work, and identify the best people for the job. | ||
| Teamwork | Ability to effectively and cooperatively work in small groups toward a common goal. | ||
| Leadership Skills | Ability to influence and have an impact on others in the organisation and display energy and leadership. | ||
| Intrapersonal Skills cognitive and self-management skills | Creativity | Ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or different way, and to use the imagination to generate new ideas. | |
| Analytical and Critical Thinking | Ability to analyse information and use logic to address the issues, identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions or approaches to problems, and assess performance to make improvements or take corrective action. | ||
| Cope with ambiguity/uncertainty | Ability to handle personal and work-related problems in highly complex and dynamic environments while having incomplete, contradictory, or unclear information and cope with pressure, stress, criticism, setbacks, and personal and work-related problems. | ||
| Value Orientation | Ability to frame interaction with key stakeholders around their desired organisational outcome, being focused on HOW the job is done—correctly, carefully, ethically. | ||
| Flexibility | Ability to quickly adapt to chance and calmly deal with unexpected tasks effectively. | ||
| Initiative and Engagement | Ability to commit and connect to the organisation and take action without being directly instructed by someone else. | ||
| Learning Skills | Ability and willingness to learn in a self-directed and self-initiated manner. | ||
| Well-being Focused | Ability to develop self-awareness to recognise the fears and insecurities that change awakens and keep ourselves physically and mentally balanced, thus being able to perceive well-being as a positive outcome within living conditions. | ||
| Taking Responsibility | Ability to accept ownership of one's intentions, actions, decisions, and reactions and the ability to take the consequences for failures and mistakes. | ||
| Emotional Intelligence | Developed capacities used to work with people to achieve goals, mainly being pleasant, cooperative, sensitive to others, easy to get along with, and enjoying working with people. | ||
| Persistence | Ability to stick to a goal long-term and create sustained effort towards a purposeful work. | ||
| DIGITAL SKILLS | Basic | Capacity to select the right tools needed to perform tasks, use those tools well and set up and operate technology. (Examples of skills: digital literacy, using, e.g., accounting and finance software, construction management software, digital design, machining, and manufacturing technologies). | |
| Advanced | Capacity to use programming to design machines or technological systems determines the cause of operating errors and how to fix them. (Examples of skills: Programming, Artificial Intelligence, WEB development, Computer Hardware & Networking Systems, Cybersecurity security, data science and analysis, Human-Computer Interaction, Scrum/Agile Product Development. |
Source: own research.