Published date: Apr 08 2020

Journal Title: KnE Engineering

Issue title: III Annual International Conference "System Engineering"

Pages: 59–66

DOI: 10.18502/keg.v5i3.6759

Cs. M . Szabó - szabocs@uniduna.hu

O. Bartal

The study describes a segment of an international research which was aimed to find answers what the future generations‘ (Gen Z) vision is concerning their career and the correlation between these visions and the expectations of labour market nowadays. The preferred competencies of the labour market are constantly altering: a prognosis from 2018 says that the five most important skills will be analytical thinking, innovation, active learning, creativity, and critical thinking in 2022.

Keywords: career, competences, engineering education, future priorities, generation Z, labour market, STEM, top skills

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