Abstract:

Nowadays, technological and relational competencies are often required for the integration of students into the labor market in the presence of high business competitiveness whatever the job sector. Companies recrute good profiles with specific levels in Information Technology skills and soft skills independently of the work type. These are now the default skills to have before applying for any job offer. It is important that institutions start to activate the project of radical change of the development plan in the field of education. In the 21st century, schools ought to give the utmost priority to those skills in order to ensure the integration of students into the international work environment. This study aims to investigate how far are university students digitally and socially competent, while comparing the consequences of these skills, according to their levels, for more IT students on the one side and more specialized Management students on the other side. In this regard, we asked 81 students of French, Tunisian, Moroccan, Brazilian, Algerian, Lebanese, Egyptian, Malagasy, Polish, Chinese, Senegalese and Turkish nationalities to position themselves through a Likert scale measuring the competence and its repercussions levels. To evaluate their performance at university, a scale was designed for their direct university professor. Considering business demands is important to find the dream-job, that is why those skills have lately seen the light of the day. However, in an educational perspective, it is interesting to study the existence of these skills among the two-field-specialized students respectively and their effects at university.

Keywords:

Information Technology, Soft Skills, University Learning Performance.