Students’ Personality Factors in Relation to Their Soft Skills

Abstract

A concern facing education today in a global perspective is the variety of personality styles and soft skills.  Personality is a phenomenal dynamic in nature and soft skills are the skills that students must have in order to excel at work in general.  Hence, this study was conducted to look into the students’ personality factors in terms of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.  It also aimed to determine the students’ soft skills in terms of decision-making, time management, delegating, multitasking, and problem solving.  The study revealed that personality factors were much evident among the students and they were also much skillful in their soft skills.  Moreover, students’ personality factors were significantly related to their soft skills.  This recommends that the College of Education with its strong teaching force must continue to hold the responsibility to organize necessary programs based on feedback from basic education institutions. The implementation of personality factors and soft skills programs requires effort from all concerned as this program cannot be realized without the support from each and every College associates and students.  It is the university’s mission to produce proficient graduates physically, emotionally, spiritually and intellectually.