Employability in the fourth industrial revolution

Abstract

It is expected that the fourth industrial revolution will have a massive impact on individual career future experience by changing the basis of work, employment, and business in the upcoming future. Moreover, one-third of today's jobs will disappear by 2025 due to technology's intelligence development. Thus, students' employability skills are considered an effective tool to sustain employment at the future labour market. However, there are discrepancies in employability skills vision between higher education students' perspectives and those of employers. This study aims to recognize higher education students' perspectives about employability skills and to compare them with the labour market employability skills as requested by employers. A questionnaire was designed to test graduate students' perspectives on employability using the WEF 2020 employability skills. The results show that students are not fully aware of the fourth industrial revolution employability skills, thus, there is a gap between future labour market demand and students' perspectives about future employability skills. This study is testing employability in its two aspects. Firstly, the UAE graduate students' perspective of the employability skills as required by employers. Secondly, testing students' evaluation of the university educational programs' readiness in preparing them for the job market.

The Effects of Human Capital Attributes on the Employability Readiness Among Engineering Graduates in the High Education Institute’s in Oman

“…The findings of the study showed that students lack the understanding of the sets of the employability skills of the fourth industrial revolution indicating a gap of employability skills provided by the HEIs and the labour market demands. The study recommended that the HE subject matter experts to review the programmes of the HEIs and enhance the programmes' learning outcomes to deliver the required future employability skills such as communication, IT skills, foreign languages, and team-work to prepare the students to compete in the future job market (Pauceanu, Rabie, & Moustafa, 2020).…”

Industry 4.0: Learning Analytics Using Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Industry Applications

“…However, it is also expected that the fourth industrial revolution will have a massive impact on careers and the job market by changing the basis of work, employment and business (Pauceanu et al, 2020). Moreover, it is also forecasted that due to significant development in artificial intelligence, one-third of today's jobs will disappear by 2025 (Brougham & Haar, 2017).…”

The Institutional Attributes and Employability Readiness Among Engineering Graduates in the High Education Institute’s in Oman

“…Besides, the importance for Readiness for employability skills such as critical thinking, team-work, and communication skills necessary for success in the workplace of the 21st Century are effective when being taught in the curriculum of the HEIs (Evans, Davis, & Wheeler, 2017). In addition, special academic modules on development of Readiness for employability competencies combining both technical and soft skills can be included in the curriculum of the HEIs programmes to enhance graduates' employability (Manoharan & Arockiam, 2017;Pauceanu, Rabie, & Moustafa, 2020). Also, practical activities, combined with communication skills, and socio-emotional competencies were the most important requirement for labor market transition which highlights the importance of the integration of practical activities in engineering curriculum to prepare graduates for future employability (Edwin & Sabura, 2019;Monteiro et al, 2016).…”