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Work Mastery And Goal-Setting Skills. How Are Bulgarian Students Doing

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  • Stoyanka Cherkezova

    (Institute for Population and Human Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

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This paper makes the rationale for including direct measures of soft skills, in addition to students' academic performance, to the success criteria of an educational system in the context of the hybridization of skills required by the professions of the future. Two soft skills among 15-year-old students in Bulgaria in 2018 that are important for their later success in the labour market are investigated: 1. work mastery and 2. mastery goal orientation (in relation to the learning process). Operational definitions of the skills are presented. Conclusions are drawn on these skills’ performance of Bulgarian students in a global context. Some conclusions are drawn about the necessary course of educational policies in secondary education. Microdata from the 2018 PISA survey, which was conducted in Bulgaria and 78 other countries, are used.

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  • Stoyanka Cherkezova, 2024. "Work Mastery And Goal-Setting Skills. How Are Bulgarian Students Doing," INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE "HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT", University of Economics - Varna, issue 1, pages 89-98.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrn:hrmsnr:y:2024:i:1:p:89-98
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    Keywords

    soft skills; education; work mastery; mastery goal orientation; educational policies;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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