Abstract
This study evolved soft skills needed by university business education students for gainful employment in Enugu state. Specifically, it determined decision making skills, problem solving skills and creativity skills needed by business education students for gainful employment. Survey research design was adopted. Population was made up of 106 lecturers and final year students of public Universities offering Business education programme in Enugu, Nigeria. Questionnaire was used for data collection. Findings include 12 decision making skills such as ability to: process available information to arrive at a conclusion (X̅ = 3.75), identify alternatives/choices in a given situation (X̅ = 3.55); 12 problem solving skills include ability to: to frame, analyze, synthesize information in order to solve problem (X̅ = 3.65), apply knowledge from many different areas in solving a task (X̅ = 3.55); 12 creativity skills such as ability to: make connections from various pieces of information (X̅ = 3.75), see and identify problems (X̅ = 3.45). Based on the finding five recommendations were made.