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subject. Thus, the result will be different if the
interview is performed with another subject.
Phenomenology is a research strategy that a
researcher identifies the essence of experience of
gifted intelligent students’ action in completing a
task and their interaction at school that makes them
gain chance of career success in the future. Findings
in this study show that the subject:
1. Understands the definition of future – good
orientation and futuristic thinking.
2. Knows and understands academic
achievement target for his future.
3. Knows and understands how to reach his
academic achievement target.
4. Has the following characteristics:
Continuous Learning
Futuristic thinking
Effort and responsible.
Hardworking
Actively asking question
Enthusiastic
Self-management
Positive vibes to team or classmates
Empathy
Respect to others
Soft skill is not merely to be learned, memorized
or remembered. What is important is how to
implement soft skills in daily life. It is not easy to
teach soft skill, but it is easy to spread (Shakir,
2009). It means that soft skill is not merely
understood as a concept, but it is about how the
prospective human resources are able to apply them
continuously in order to reach bright career
(Matteson, et al, 2016).
Continuous learning shows that the subjects are
willing to go through a learning process. The
subjects are also active to improve themselves
through practices and exercises until the goal of the
learning is achieved. Moreover, the subjects also
always make an effort to learn a new concept, apply
a new method, and know various kinds of relatively
new technologies. Other soft skills reflected from
the subjects are good orientation and futuristic
thinking. These soft skills show that the subjects
have the ability to focus their effort to reach the goal
and to project necessary things that has not been
achieved.
Effort and responsible is the third soft skill found
in the subjects of this research. This indicates that
the subjects implement their personal characters to
accomplish their achievement by working on
everything that becomes their responsibility
wholeheartedly. Hardworking is soft skill or
personal characteristic that is also seen in the
subjects’ everyday life. It indicates that the subjects
also have toughness in doing all the tasks that should
be done. Actively asking question. This soft skill or
personal character shows the willingness of the
subjects to actively ask questions, clarify things
particularly for things that they do not understand in
order to get the same perception. On the other side,
enthusiastic is as part of characters shown by the
subjects in receiving stimulus and other activities.
This enthusiasm shows big interest, spirit and
passion as the strength to do all activities to reach
the intended final goal. Enthusiasm also becomes
great motivation for them to reach their life dream.
Enthusiasm encourages the scholars to never stop
learning.
Self-management is the ability to manage self,
potential and time effectively. Self-management is a
procedure an individual does to manage his/her own
behavior (Gie, 1996). Self-management is a
condition where, after an individual determines
his/her future life goal for him/herself, he/she must
manage and maintain him/herself as well as he/she
can in order to direct him/herself to the path of
his/her life goal; including managing all steps and
activities and self (Gie, 1996).
Positive vibes to team or classmates is one of soft
skills found in this study. Positive vibes are another
term for positive thinking that later is implemented
in daily life by spreading aura and positive spirit to
the surrounding. It can be seen in the willingness to
support group or individual success of the
classmates. Another soft skill found in the subjects
in this study is empathy. This soft skill can be seen
from the willingness of the subjects to show their
care to others and their surroundings. Meanwhile,
respect to others that is also one soft skill revealed in
this study is the willingness to respect another
individual (Matteson, 2016) in any condition. The
subjects show all those characters in their daily life.
The ten soft skills found in this study are a group of
important personal characters to support success.
Soft skills are not merely to be learned, memorized,
or remembered. What is more important is how to
implement the soft skills in everyday life. Soft skills
are not easy to be taught, but they are easy to be
spread to others (Shakir, 2009).
4 CONLUSIONS
Human resources are precious assets. In some cases,
in working world, workers who tend to have
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