Soft Skills and Entrepreneurial Spirit: Integration of Skills through Continuing Education for Indonesian Students in the Era of Globalization 21st Century

This article aims to analyze the soft skills needed to foster an entrepreneurial spirit among students. This research is a literature review research where in this literature review includes the author’s name, year of publication, research objectives, research subjects, research methods, and related research results. In the literature review research, soft skills are needed in fostering an entrepreneurial spirit among students using quantitative and qualitative methods. Problems among students, especially learning activities on campus, generally emphasize more on the dimensions of hard skills than soft skills, even though the ideal learning practice should combine the dimensions of hard skills and soft skills. If the hard skills dimension emphasizes the technical and academic skills of students related to the field of science studied, the soft skills dimension prioritizes the intra- and inter-personal skills of students. So, it is necessary to develop soft skills to foster the entrepreneurial spirit of students. The results of the research on the literature review are that soft skills are needed and influential in fostering an entrepreneurial spirit among students. The soft skills needed include being able to communicate well, having an attitude of confidence, discipline, independence, being able to think critically, and being able to manage time and work in teams. With the soft skills possessed by students in fostering an entrepreneurial spirit, students can apply them by starting entrepreneurship early on, namely when they are still students, so that they can become provisions so that when entering the world of work later, students no longer need to wait for job vacancies but can create job opportunities for other people in need.