A scalable way to measure and train soft skills
Using AI and commercial off-the-shelf video games, empower students to master the skills needed to excel academically and build a successful career.
Students proficient in soft skills have a competitive advantage
Soft skills intensive occupations will account for 2/3 of all jobs by 2030.
65%
of managers said they struggle to find candidates with strong soft skills
84%
of managers believe new employees must possess soft skills and demonstrate this in the hiring process.
85%
of organizations are experiencing some form of soft skills gap
89%
of managers said bad hires typically lack soft skills
Professional Personality Profiles
Based on 15+ years of scientific research in psychology, pedagogy, and AI, our exclusive SkillQuestAI solution leverages a set of artificial intelligence algorithms capable of interpreting data from gaming activity to reveal the professional personality profile of an individual or a team.
From gaming to training
Research has demonstrated that playing video games improves soft skills. The next step is to help individuals transfer their gaming experience into real-world action. ​
18 Video games
We have selected a number of mainstream video games for all ages and all gaming styles, for both gamers and not.
16 Soft skills
These are the soft skills that research has identified as being necessary for professional success.
4 Analytic tools
SkillQuestAI offers 4 tools to analyze the soft skills configuration of an individual or a team to identify their professional personality profile.
Effective trainings
Our network of certified experts design training programs and interactive sessions that are tailored to address clients’ issues and complement the soft skills developed through gaming.
Design the Training Plan
Select the soft skills that need to be trained and the video games that measure and improve them.
Register a Steam account
Students connect their Steam account to the SkillQuest platform. They can use an existing account or create a new one.
Training
Students access up to 18 different commercial video games on any PC or laptop and play them at their own convenience.
Analyze soft skills configurations
Map each person's soft skills configuration after just a few hours of gaming. Use the analytic tools to reveal further insights about each person's Professional Personality Profile.
Video games improve soft skills
Video games improve cognitive abilities
Increase of gray matter in areas of the brain related to spatial navigation and working memory, improving learning ability
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Better integration of external information with rules, rewards, and strategies
Video games improve motivation
Promotes the state of Flow: increased attention, concentration, and motivation during the task
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​Stimulates autonomy, competition, and improve emotional skills and stress management
Video games facilitate and promote prosocial behavior
They have become socialization tools to meet people, make friends, provide mutual social support, facilitating cooperative, civic, and prosocial behavior
Video games build academic skills in higher education students
Research shows that video games develop communication, adaptability, and inventiveness
Benefits for Education
Leverage the teaching advantages of both digital and physical worlds to help students better understand their capabilities and make meaningful decisions about their professional and/or academic future.
Establish a reliable methodology for training and evaluating students' soft skills.
Open a channel of information and knowledge about soft skills with families.
Add an experiential level to interaction-based learning innovating teaching methods.
Benefits for Schools
Improve student integration and motivation by helping teaching staff take advantage of this new paradigm, equipping themselves with new resources to connect with their students.
Measure students' soft skills to facilitate career guidance and reduce school dropout rates.
Create a common environment for exchange and reflection between students and teachers with soft skills development as the objective.
Train teachers on soft skills to attract and reconnect students to studying through video games, thus speaking their language.
Benefits for Students
Become aware of the importance of soft skills as key competencies in education and professional careers, necessary and essential to successfully face the modern work world.
Increase awareness of one's innate talent through an educational process that entertains and stimulates.
Benefit from one's free time, beyond time invested in the classroom.
Learn to manage the digital/virtual world: technology, video games, social networks, artificial intelligence.
Benefits
Students with soft skills have a higher rate of graduation and tend to hold gratifying careers.
