How to Improve Soft Skills for Vietnamese Students to Boost Their Start-Up Process

Abstract

The you this the main labor force for the socio-economic development of each country as this is a strong and young force that accounts for a large proportion of the labor force. However, the unemployment rate among young people is still high, one of the important reasons is that there is no suitable job, or the employment opportunities are still in shortage while the ability to create jobs of the economy is still limited. The solution currently is that the Government has policies to encourage the youth doing startups to create jobs for themselves and others. In particular, students are considered a core youth team in the society, they are fully equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary for practical operation. The more important thing is that students will have many ideas formed right from their seats in universities, if they can take advantage of it, they can turn them into business projects to call for capital. But in general, the annual start-up rate in students is not high, the level of success is not much, one of those barriers is the lack of soft skills in starting a business, leading to difficulties in finding capital, partners and market. This study is based on student statistics and surveys and a number of businesses to identify soft skills gaps and how to improve their soft skills to create momentum for startup in new situations. To increase students' soft skills, the efforts of both sides (school and students) should be taken into consideration. For school: necessary to raise the awareness of students about the important role of soft skills; teaching methods in all subjects need to integrate a variety of soft skills to help students practice; paying attention to training foreign language and informatics skills; increasing the amount of discussion and teamwork in the subjects; strengthening extracurricular activities throughout the learning process; searching and providing opportunities for students to attend seminars at home and abroad; increasing the time for training and internship; developing soft skills through mass organizations. For students: being proactive in the process of learning and cultivating yourself; actively and proactively improve soft skills for themselves.