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Science mapping was utilized in this systematic review of research to analyze the body of knowledge on soft skills for employability. The research review selected high impact articles, charted the \"intellectual structure\", and recorded the volume, development rate, and geographical spread of this literature. Forty-five English-language, Scopus-indexed documents that were published between 2013 and 2023 made up the database of this review. The review revealed that the documents on soft skills for employability has slightly grown over the recent years with an average of 6 documents published in each year of 2017 to 2021. The field was mostly dominated by scholars from Europe and Asia. Four \"schools of thought\" were identified through author co-citation analysis as the \"intellectual structures”of soft skills for employability. These are: Soft Skill Development of Students, Employers’Expectations on Graduates, Key Soft Skills, and Measuring Employability. Analysis of the document content resulted in the conclusion that there is a clear agreement in the literature that employability and career preparedness are difficult notions that cannot be simply defined, quantified, or put into practice. A significant gap between the demands ofthe actual world and our educational system in terms of soft skills has been determined. The research recommends \"skillfying the syllabus\" or \"skillification\" in order to guarantee that soft skills are taught in the curriculum.  \nKeywords: Soft Skills, Employability, Higher Education, Graduates, Employers  \n1. INTRODUCTION  \nIn today's challenging economic environment, academic knowledge is no longer enough; students must learn employability skills to obtain good career prospects (Ibrahim and Mistree , 2017) . Teng et al. (2019) argued that in order to increase graduate job preparedness, institutions need to include soft skills in their courses. According to Anggiani (2017), soft skills are the personal characteristics that enhance interpersonal interactions. Similarly, Cimatti (2016) stated that soft skills are all those aptitudes that aren't explicitly related to a certain activity but are crucial in any position because they primarily involve interactions with other employees of the organization.  \nAccording to Seetha (2014), soft skills are crucial for organizational success and wellbeing since they have a significant impact on the achievement of work performance. Anggiani (2017) looked at the effect of skills on employees' performance and came to the conclusion that both hard and soft skills have a big impact on employees' performance. The importance of soft skills in the workplace was underlined in the World Economic Forum's\"Future of Jobs\" report. It claims that by 2025, companies would place analytical thinking,  \ncreativity, and problem-solving among the top soft skills companies will look for in graduates (World Economic Forum, 2020) . This puts pressure on higher education institutions to not just focus on technical skills training of students as it is not enough to address the challenges in the modern workplace.  \nOne of the most debated topics in the present literature on graduate employability is the quality of students and their lack of soft skills, which are essential in today's labor market and required to boost individual employability (Clarke, 2017; Crossman and Clarke, 2010) . Employers have criticized and held higher education accountable for not preparing students adequately for the modern labor market, consistently highlighting students' lack of soft skills (Hur","cbCaiciAZ7kaNlcd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiciAZ7kaNlcd","pdf",686423,13,"English","# Abstract\n# 1. Introduction\n# 2. 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