Majority of the skills that has skill gaps highest priority items are from the Interpersonal and Personal categories. The highest item based on curriculum priority are: Generating new ideas (creative thinking skills), accomplishing assignment, oral communication skills, working effectively in teams, persuading others, and writing clearly and effectively. The skills in the Technical competency category with the highest priority: using project management (MS project, etc.), programming in PHP, and creating flowchart. Only these three skills were in the top 1/3 of the curriculum priority items. Only one item from the Core Technical IS Knowledge category; creating web pages and websites.
This study also concluded that soft skills are more important than technical skills. Emotions could also be an important factor that needs to be taken into consideration in the future. (Alalawi & Razzaque, 2016).