Soft skills training for students is one of the important contents in the comprehensive training process for students, good at professional knowledge, good soft skills and positive attitudes. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the current status of soft skills training for students, find out the shortcomings, limitations, and causes of the deficiencies; from there, propose solutions to improve the quality of soft skills training for students of Dong Nai Technology University to improve the comprehensive training quality of the school. In this study, 198 people who participated in the survey were managers, lecturers, and students; including 101 people at Dong Nai Technology University and 97 people at some universities in Ho Chi Minh City. The sample was selected for semi-structured interviews using the convenience method, the sample size was 17 people including 04 managers, 05 lecturers, and 08 students. The results showed that soft skills training for students in general and students of Dong Nai University of Technology in particular has achieved positive results, however, there are still some shortcomings and limitations that need to be further overcome. From that reality, this study proposes some solutions to improve the quality of soft skills training for students of Dong Nai Technology Universityin the coming time.
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