Soft skills identification for guidance and job placement

Recognition, validation and certification of skills, especially those developed in nonformal and informal fields, is becoming a current topic for all educative institutions. This paper represents a good practice at the University of Macerata (IT) in the field of soft skills assessment. The aim of the project named “Unimc for Soft Skills” was to give feedback about the soft skills they possess to students coming from the secondary school and participating in the experience of work-based learning at the University. A list of characteristics for each chosen soft skill was designed as well as reliable procedures for soft skills assessment.