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Which skills are required by university students to create labor competitiveness?

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  • Hugo Pérez-Maldonado,
  • Laura Peñaloza Suárez,
  • Ana Leticia Tamayo Salcedo
Hugo Pérez-Maldonado
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
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Laura Peñaloza Suárez
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
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Ana Leticia Tamayo Salcedo
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33010/recie.v6i0.1690

Published 2022-12-21

Keywords

  • Management skills,
  • digital skills,
  • entrepreneurial skills
  • Habilidades gerenciales,
  • habilidades digitales,
  • habilidades emprendedoras

How to Cite

Pérez-Maldonado, H., Peñaloza Suárez, L., & Tamayo Salcedo, A. L. (2022). Which skills are required by university students to create labor competitiveness?. RECIE. Revista Electrónica Científica De Investigación Educativa, 6, e1690. https://doi.org/10.33010/recie.v6i0.1690

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Abstract

Currently, companies in Mexico face several challenges, one of them is human capital as an indispensable factor to achieve business competitiveness, however, there is a gap between the competencies of human capital and the needs of the labor market, thus, Higher Education Institutions (HEI) acquire an important role so professionals develop knowledge and skills that allow them to increase their competitiveness and obtain better jobs for the benefit of society. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to identify the skills required by university students to create competitiveness in the workplace, in order to have the bases to know if students acquire them during their training. The study is approached from an interpretative perspective, with a documentary method in a conceptual theoretical context, based on the literature review of various authors (mainly using the Web of Science, Redalyc and SciELO databases). It concludes that the University (case study) still has the challenge of training professionals who acquire managerial, digital and entrepreneurial skills that are necessary to reduce the gap between the skills acquired by human capital during their training process and the needs of the business environment of the tourism sector, which will help contribute to the advancement of social development, since the three skills as a whole are an indispensable factor in the training of university students to create labor competitiveness.

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