UpGrad_Me 2.0_Research_FV_EN

16 List of competences, skills and personal traits included in the UpGrad_Me 2.0 Questionnaire • Critical thinking • Leadership • Teamworking • Strategic thinking • Problem solving • Negotiation abilities • Results oriented • Client/user oriented • Resistance to adversity • Interpersonal Communication • Influence • Analysis capacity • Decision making • Openness and cognitive adaptation • Direction • Planning • Organization • Tolerance to frustration • Adaptability • Numerical analysis • Commitment • Delegation • Autonomy • adaptability to change • organizational awareness • Commitment to institutional values • Continuous learning • Search of information • Technical capacity • IT skills • Active listening • Empathy • Oral skills • Written communication • Social skills • Kinetical skills • Creativity • Pro-activity • Initiative • Motivation • Positivity • Self-control and emotional stability • Self-confidence Procedure The data collection of the participants was carried out between November 2020 and January 2021. Firstly, an internal meeting was held with the persons responsible of the coordination of the research in Malta, Cyprus, Italy and Spain in order to define the different occupational families according to the NACE European classification system. Professionals in the field of human resources, career guidance and related professions were involved in the development of a simplified model based on ecological validity criteria in the framework of the "UpGrad_Me 2.0" project (the resulting system can be found in the “ Professional Families Research ” section of this paper). On the other hand, a Spanish team of professionals selected the different skills, transversal and specific competences, and personal traits that could cover the whole range of professions. Once the questionnaire had been drawn up, it was conducted to professionals in the field of human resources, employment counsellors, employment project technicians and related professions, who selected the main competences, skills, and personal features that they considered to be associated with each professional family, through "check-list" procedure. Finally, the data collected were analysed using the Excel statistical programme.