The Importance of Mentalization Skills for Job Success

In recent years, soft skills are considered as a fundamental requirement for job success and decisive for the development of the individual’s personality. Soft skills are essential for job searching, especially for recent graduates, because they could guarantee a rewarding career and success. The soft skills considered important are: positive attitude, good communication, self-motivation and problem-solving skills, etc. As a result of the continuous changes in the workplace, employers expect that recent graduates will possess excellent soft skills, including good teamwork skills, critical skills, ethical, moral and professional skills, which will enable them to cope with the problems inherent to their professional activities. Mentalization skills are crucial for healthy personality development and they allow you to perceive, understand and interpret thoughts, emotions, desires and others own, regulate emotional states and be effective in interpersonal relationships. In this study, we hypothesized that a perfect combination of soft skills and mentalization skills could improve graduates employability. © 2020 Copyright for this paper by its authors.