1. Competências Socioemocionais para a Empregabilidade:
Contributos do Projeto Europeu ULISSE
XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Orientação Profissional e de Carreira - ABOP
Maceió, Brasil 18-20 Setembro 2019
Diana Aguiar Vieira
Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP/CEOS.PP)
Politécnico do Porto

2. 18.500 Estudantes
2.000 Trabalhadores
Ensino Superior Público
Criando futuro desde 1852
100.000 Alumni
8 UOs
Administração (ISCAP),
Engenharia, Educação,
Saúde, Música e Teatro…

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4. Understanding, Learning and Improving
Soft Skills for Employability
Financiamento: ~ 400.000 Euros
KA203 - Erasmus+ “Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education

6. Intelectual Output 1 – general work flow
Data & sources
Abstracts from Scopus (n=10.517)
Job Vacancies (n= 1500)
Partners Full-papers (n=51)
Thematic Reports (n=15)
Structured Competences Databases (O*NET and ESCO)

7. Extraction of 3600 sentences with high likelihood of
containing at least one skill
Label list definition (16 soft skills + other)
(Berdrow & Evers, 2010; Vieira & Marques, 2014) and the O*NET database.
Tagging 3600 sentences based on Label list
Results
1667 sentences: no soft skill
1536 sentences: soft skills from the label list
397 sentences: other soft skill
Intelectual Output 1 – Tasks

8. Analysis of the 397 sentences with other soft skill
Last Label list definition (22 soft skills)
(Berdrow & Evers, 2010; Vieira & Marques, 2014) and the O*NET database.
Tagging 397 sentences
Intelectual Output 1 – Tasks
Soft skills Lexicon
998 soft skills phrases classified by 22 soft skills

9. Intelectual Output 1 – Labels results

10. Intelectual Output 1 – Labels results

11. Intelectual Output 1 – Labels results

12. Intelectual Output 1 – Labels results
Strong concentration in
abstracts, comparing to
Job offers & papers/reports

13. Intelectual Output 1 – Labels results
Research abstracts focusing mainly in
interpersonal relationships & emotional skills
Employers asking for problem-solving, flexibility,
teamwork and planning
Papers/reports focusing problem-solving, flexibility,
teamwork and work ethic

14. Intelectual Output 1 – Labels results

15. Intelectual Output 1 – Labels results
Decision-making & critical thinking alignment
Planning ranking the most alike
Problem-solving ranking is the
most similar
Better alignment between job offers
& papers/reports
(teamwork, flexibility, work ethic,
leadership, emotional skills &
interpersonal relationships)

16. Next Steps
Employers interviews and questionnaires
Revise the list of soft skills and break them down in more
specific skills
Elaborate a mind map of the unveiled soft skills and its
specific “not-so-soft” elements to be addressed in the IO3

17. Obrigada pela atenção!
Diana Aguiar Vieira
www.beyou-bemore.com
CEOS.PP, ISCAP, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

18. DISCLAIMER:
ULISSE is a Strategic Partnership for Higher Education project (2018-1-IT02-
KA203-048286). The European Commission support for the production of these
slides does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views
only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use
which may be made of the information contained therein.