Personal and Emotional Skill Profiles in the Professional Development of the Computer Engineer

摘要

The importance of generic skills in career success is a fact that nobody questions. The professional world requires universities to provide specific training so that future professionals can improve their job performance. A /though proposals and recommendations have been made to include such skills in the curriculum, universities find such an idea hard to implement. One major barrier is the lack of an evaluation model in the acquisition of such skills, which are far more complex than those based on obtaining knowledge. This paper proposes a generic emotional intelligence and personality-based model with which to assess generic skills. This kind of model is evaluable and makes it possible to measure student competence. For this study, the model was applied to analyse the profile of computer engineers. The view of experts and professionals was taken into account for the study, and levels of competence were measured in a sample of Computer Engineering students through a series of tests. The results showed differences between student profiles and the opinion of the experts, as well as between the views of professionals and experts. However, a significant similarity was found between the views of professionals and the students' actual skill level.