Career Choice and Employability Skills for Vocational College Students

Jaafar, Siti Norain; Zakaria, Normah; Rasheid, N. A.

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1049/1/012050

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“…This research found that there was a positive and strong correlation between employability skills and career development self-efficacy. Jaafar, Zakaria, and Rasheid (2018) show that the relationship between employability skills and career choice is high which proves that the variables have a strong correlation. There is limited literature that relates employability skills with career self-efficacy since determining the relationship between both variables is the gap that the researcher filled in the literature.…”

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“…One way to help students make correct career choices is to expose them to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) because through TVET students are exposed to varied career options (Moodie, 2002). To smooth student's exploration of careers, Norain Jaafar, Zakaria, and Rasheid (2018) proposed the employability skills taught in Vocational College (VC) should be paralleled with the student's course enrolment so that they are very competent to perform many tasks in the real work situation. Janet, Kimberly, and Ken (2010) highlighted TVET curriculum should include 21st-century skills as well as career and technical education to groom students for their future careers.…”

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Employability Skills and Career Development Self-Efficacy as Indicators for Workforce Success

Omar,

Wan Muhamad,

Ismail

et al. 2023

JTET

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The development of graduates’ employability skills has become one of crucial agenda in today’s educational milieu. One if the strategies is my adding the soft skills components in teaching and learning delivery across curriculum. This agenda includes Technical and Vocational and Education and Training (TVET) academic program which now has become the forefront agenda to spearhead the local skilled workforce for the nation. The research employed a quantitative descriptive and cross-sectional study among vocational college students from diploma programs across field of studies to combat numerous issues related to graduates’ preparedness on entering workforce, particularly on lack of employability skills. The employability skills section of the instrument was adapted from Grant, Malloy, and Murphy (2009) and Sarigoz (2012). The CD-SEI (Career Development Self-Efficacy Inventory) was replicated from Yuen et al. (2005) as dependent variable. Findings related to employability skills were indicated at a moderate level. The self-efficacy for career development was moderately high. Students' self-efficacy for career development was not significantly influenced by the demographic variables of gender or academic success. Additionally, the results indicated that vocational college students have higher cognitive skills which significantly predicted the career development self-efficacy. The results of this study can be capitalized as guidelines to carry out a curriculum that is more industrially driven, contributing the exposure to industrial experiences as self-efficacy and employability skills values before venturing job market.

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Employability Skills and Career Development Self-Efficacy as Indicators for Workforce Success

Omar,

Wan Muhamad,

Ismail

et al. 2023

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“…Experts also support the importance of enhancing interpersonal skills as a learning content in VC to increase students' selfconfidence and give employers confidence in their graduates' competency skills. This highlights the need for VC to emphasize the importance of interpersonal skills in enhancing the career prospects of VC graduates (Jaafar et al, 2018).…”

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Employability challenges of vocational college graduates in the state of Johor

Kiong,

Zulkifli

2024

JPTK

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The purpose of this research is to determine the difficulties experienced by Vocational College (VC) graduates in selecting a job, aligning their study program with the career, and figuring out the abilities that employers want depending on factors such as gender, study program, and VC after graduation. 234 graduates of Electrical Technology, Electronic Technology, Welding Technology, Construction Technology, and Automotive Technology programs from 2020 to 2022 VC in Johor participated in the study. This study used a quantitative survey research approach, utilizing a questionnaire and simple random sampling to analyze data both descriptively and inferentially against a sample representative of the total population. The findings demonstrated that graduates have significant difficulties selecting a vocation, determining if their study program is suitable, and determining what qualities companies are looking for. The results of the Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests showed that there is gender-based variations in the abilities and problems associated with choosing a vocation. The degree of difficulty in matching studies with jobs, compatibility of studies with careers, and the abilities employers want depending on the study program did not change based on a person's gender. Finally, depending on VC, notable variations were discovered in the degree of career choices, program fit, and skills needed by employers.

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“…Applied skills Qizi [27] 1 Employability skills Azmi et al, [23], Abd Rahman Ahmad et al, [26], Asonitou [39], Lisá et al, [40], Triyono et al, [41], Messer [42], Kamaliah et al, [43], Chan et al, [44], Jaafar et al, [45], Rahmat et al, [46] 10 Generic Skills Yaakob et al, [21], Ghazali and Bennett [37], Chhinzer and Russo [62] 3 Hard skills Sopa et al, [2], Azmi et al, [9], Tan et al, [14], Yaakob et al, [21], Ritter et al, [22], Azmi et al, [23], Qizi [27], Azmi et al, [33], Osmin [36], Ghazali and Bennett [37], Jaaffar et al, [38], Asonitou [39] 12 Technical skills Maisiri et al, [18], Yaakob et al, [21], Abd Rahman Ahmad et al, [26], Rumsey et al, [35] 4…”

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The Mismatch of Present and Required Future Workforce Skills of Manufacturing Industry

Noor Nazihah Mohd Noor,

Shazaitul Azreen Rodzalan,

Maisarah Mohamed Saat

et al. 2024

ARASET

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Manufacturing is one of the vital industries in Malaysia that contributes to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides employment for society. The manufacturing sector involves the use of various technologies in order to produce output. However, technological advancement has affected the manufacturing sector mainly in terms of skills demanded. Furthermore, studies focusing on skills demanded in the future from the manufacturing industry perspective regarding Industry 4.0 remain scarce. Therefore, this study aims to identify the present and future skills and determine the differences in the skills demanded. This paper intends to determine mismatch encountered concerning skills demanded by the industry due to the rise of Industry 4.0. The method used in this study was the review of literature on the skills demanded in the manufacturing industry obtained from journal articles, magazines, books and online news that were closely related to the keywords and research area. This paper emphasised the impact of the skills demanded by the manufacturing industry and the skills needed in the future for manufacturing in Malaysia. Most research has discussed the skills set based on the employers and universities’ perspectives. The findings of the study found that there is a differences and mismatch between the present and future skills demanded by manufacturing industry. Therefore, the future studies required to conduct the study related to the future workforce skills in order to provide clear sight of the future workforce skills in the specific industries.

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Career Choice and Employability Skills for Vocational College Students

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Employability Skills and Career Development Self-Efficacy as Indicators for Workforce Success

Employability Skills and Career Development Self-Efficacy as Indicators for Workforce Success

Employability challenges of vocational college graduates in the state of Johor

The Mismatch of Present and Required Future Workforce Skills of Manufacturing Industry

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