Employability Skills Assessment Tool Development

Rasul, Mohamad Sattar; Rauf, Rose Amnah Abd; Mansor, Azlin Norhaini; Puvanasvaran, A. P.

doi:10.5539/ies.v5n5p43

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“…From the perspective of an employer, trainings are provided to staff in order for staff to be a global competitive player, and be ahead of competitors. With a borderless world in the IT industry, staff must be value added with necessary technical and non-technical expertise (Rasul, Rauf, Mansor & Puvanasvaran, 2012). Manager A mentioned, "…We have now, you know competitors, so we need to make sure that our talent is valued and the investors are willing to come because we have competent talents…"…”

Section: Theme 1: Competitive Global Market Playermentioning

confidence: 99%

Stakeholders Perspective on Communicative Competence in Industry 4.0: Walk the Talk of Informative Technologists

Bhattacharyya¹

2018

SHS Web Conf.

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In facing the challenges of era 4.0, graduates are undoubtedly faced with language and communicative competency struggle to ensure that there is ease of transition from that of the academia to the workplace. This transition would entail innovative insight in language learning to equip graduates with apt technical and non-technical competencies for purposes of employability and work readiness. Graduates will need to familiarize themselves with the professional environment and be familiar with the language of the community of practice. To be considered a legitimate member of a community, the situated learning theory postulates that continued participation and engagement over a period of time with a community, provides one the ability to be considered as member of a community. For this purpose, a mixed method research was conducted in a private university to obtain the views of graduates and employers involved in student internship programs at an Information Technology (IT) company. Respondents were required to provide their feedback on communicative competence expected of interns for employability and work readiness. The study aims to share the communicative competencies and struggles as well as pedagogical implications expected of IT graduates in Industry 4.0. to be deemed employable and work ready.

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Section: Theme 1: Competitive Global Market Playermentioning

confidence: 99%

Stakeholders Perspective on Communicative Competence in Industry 4.0: Walk the Talk of Informative Technologists

Bhattacharyya¹

2018

SHS Web Conf.

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“…As job market needs vary among different regions of the world, the competencies and skills that are required to maintain employability vary as well [19]. Further, research in various regions of the world has indicated that numerous graduates lack the employability skills that are required by employers [30]. In the last few decades, however, the demand for highly technical and professional skills has increased throughout the world [22].…”

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Employability Skills as Perceived by Employers and University Faculty in the Fields of Human Resource Development (HRD) for Entry Level Graduate Jobs

Mansour

Dean

2016

JHRSS

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The world of employment has changed dramatically, technology is impacting practices and experiences, and societies are becoming more global and multicultural. With the rise of globalization, employability is becoming one of the main goals for education systems. Today's employers require employees to have soft or non-technical skills in addition to technical skills. The purpose of the study was to explore employability skills as perceived by employers and university faculty of human resource development (HRD) and management for entry level graduate jobs. As a result of this research, types of employability skills may be identified which are common among the faculty of HRD programs and employers of HRD graduates both in the U.S. and internationally. To evaluate the interrelationships between the variables of interest among employees and faculty members, both in the U.S. and internationally, one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was utilized. The overall results of this study indicate that with the exception of communication skills and the use of technology, there is a significant relationship between 16 of the 18 variables investigated and the type of respondents.

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“…There is a growing concern that university graduates lack employability skills around the world (Australian Department of Education, 2006;Confederation of British Industry;Rasul, Rauf, Mansor, & Puvanasvaran, 2012;UNESCO, 2012). In Japan, the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI, 2014) introduced the concept of syakaijin kisoryoku (fundamental competencies for working persons as translated by METI: See Appendix A) in 2006 and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT, 2008) introduced the concept of gakushiryoku (competences expected of university graduates: See Appendix B) in 2008 in an attempt to help develop students' employability skills.…”

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Active Learning for Creating Innovators: Employability Skills beyond Industrial Needs

Ito

Kawazoe

2015

IJHE

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In 2012, Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology initiated a project entitled "Improving Higher Education for Industrial Needs" in which 147 universities have participated. One of the main purposes of this project is to identify what industrial needs and help develop university students' employability skills through active learning as there has been a growing concern that university graduates lack employability skills that industry seeks. However, Japanese university instructors are unfamiliar with or lack skills for adopting active learning approaches in their courses. This study explores what skills industry needs, examines how these skills can be developed and assessed at university, and describes a course entitled "Business Planning in Practice" that intends to develop these skills through active learning offered at the Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, one of the universities participating in the national project. Business Planning in Practice has been selected as an active learning target course for the Improving Higher Education for Industrial Needs to demonstrate how a university course can employ active learning approaches. The findings show that the skills that industry needs are discovery skills, these skills could be nurtured in the form of research skills at university, and Business Planning in Practice had positive impacts in improving these skills through active learning approaches. This paper concludes with suggestions for how Japanese universities could establish an environment to create innovative human resources.

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Employability Skills Assessment Tool Development

Cited by 33 publications

References 15 publications

Stakeholders Perspective on Communicative Competence in Industry 4.0: Walk the Talk of Informative Technologists

Stakeholders Perspective on Communicative Competence in Industry 4.0: Walk the Talk of Informative Technologists

Employability Skills as Perceived by Employers and University Faculty in the Fields of Human Resource Development (HRD) for Entry Level Graduate Jobs

Active Learning for Creating Innovators: Employability Skills beyond Industrial Needs

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