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).