Exploring Employability of Business Graduates: Evidence from Woldia University

Kassa, Erstu Tarko

doi:10.1007/s13132-021-00856-0

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“…The study further suggested that to enhance graduates' skills, higher education institutions (HEIs) and employers must collaborate so that graduates can better adapt to the changing nature of the labour market and increase their employability. The present study's findings were also supported by recent studies (Kassa, 2022;Hossain et al, 2020;Mainga et al, 2021), who posited that employability skills are crucial in a changing labour market. Further, graduates in the study viewed that business schools have a significant role in fostering the students' employability skills.…”

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“…A considerable number of studies on graduate employability have been conducted recently. For instance, Kassa (2022) investigated the level of competency among Woldia University business graduates as a moderating factor in the graduates' employability. A cross-sectional study design and quantitative methods were used for this investigation.…”

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Perceptions of Employability of Undergraduate Business Program Graduates: A Qualitative Analysis

Gurung¹,

Chapagain²,

Thapa³

2023

J. Bus. Mgt.

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Background: Students' perspective on graduate employability is an essential aspect to consider as they are the primary stakeholders of higher education institutions. Therefore, exploring graduates' perspectives on their employability and considering their opinions when designing policies and programs to improve graduate employability is crucial. However, little attention has been paid to graduates' perspectives on their employability. Objectives: This paper explored graduates' perceptions of employability, the labour market, and their views on academic credentials and employability skills in obtaining and retaining employment. The paper also examined the role of business schools in enhancing employability and how universities have prepared graduates to enter the labour market in the context of the human capital approach. Methods: The study adopted a qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews with a small sample of 38 undergraduate students from two different business programs who graduated from the constituent college of Pokhara university in 2019 and 2021 using purposive sampling. The interviews were designed to elicit in-depth responses from the participants and to allow them to share their experiences and insights. The study used the thematic analysis approach to analyze the data, which involved identifying patterns and themes within the data. The transcripts of the interviews were carefully reviewed and analyzed, and themes were generated based on the recurring patterns and ideas expressed by the participants. Results: The thematic analysis demonstrated that graduates understood employability as becoming employable with the potential of employability skills. Graduates viewed possessing academic credentials as one of the key benefits ofbecoming employable in the competitive and congested graduate labour market. The study further illustrated that employers expect both discipline-specific knowledge and soft skills from graduates. The data on the role of business schools in enhancing employability suggested that although many graduates felt that business schools could provide theoretical knowledge, the schools need to pay more attention to practical-based knowledge, especially soft skills. Conclusion: The study findings have provided insights into how recent graduates comprehend employability, view the current labour market and position their academic credentials in employability. The analysis has further demonstrated that students increasingly view their employability as the relative positional competition for labour market resources, which appears to have a bearing on how they perceive the role of credentials in their employability. The findings have further shown that employers expect both sides of graduate potential: strong academic credentials and employability skills. Therefore, graduates increasingly see the need to develop broader employability, which incorporates building strong academic credentials and employability skills and competencies outside the formal learning context. The study findings have implications for business schools, policymakers and researchers within the broader discourse of the knowledge-driven economy.

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Perceptions of Employability of Undergraduate Business Program Graduates: A Qualitative Analysis

Gurung¹,

Chapagain²,

Thapa³

2023

J. Bus. Mgt.

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“…As proved by Hong et al (2023), this finding showed that self-efficacy acts as the utmost significant predictor towards students' satisfaction with the major, followed by perceived curriculum and campus support. Supported by Kassa (2022), self-efficacy has statistically significant positive effect on the employability of business graduates because it had a positive statistically significant effect on the employability of graduates. Additionally, group assessments have been counted into the curriculum for decades, responding to employers' demands of developing employability skills in project management university graduates (Tumpa et al, 2023).…”

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Malaysian Graduates Employability Challenges: A Critical Review

Beh,

Wong

2024

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching implications for individuals, societies, and economies, disrupting established patterns in education, employment, and career trajectories. This paper explores a narrative review of the literature that studied the graduates’ employability post pandemic. Narrative review is suitable to be applied in this study, as it tends to achieve exploratory research where a new or emerging field is explored, providing holistic perspective in which a wide range of studies is summarized, consequently synthesizing diverse evidence that highlight the trends across various studies. This review highlights the multifaceted challenges facing Malaysian graduates, emphasizing the far-reaching circumstance of the COVID-19 pandemic on graduates' employment dynamics. It underscores disparities in the quality of employment, wage gaps, and the vulnerability of workers in informal sectors. A range of factors impacting employability can be considered, including self-efficacy, curriculum support, employability skills development, and work placement learning. The study also explores the impact of postgraduate studies on employment prospects, gender disparities in employability skills, and the significance of soft skills and non-technical skills in aviation careers. Furthermore, it delves into how graduates' knowledge and soft skills development vary by education level and how emerging concepts like Industry 5.0 are reshaping the employment landscape. Confronting globalization and evolving labor market dynamics, graduates must embrace self-development and adaptability so forth meeting the changing needs of the job market.

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“…In Sub-Saharan countries, the rate of graduate employability is rapidly declining in spite of the skills and competencies of graduates [1]. Twinoburyo et al [2] have shown that Sub-Saharan countries have the highest unemployment rate in the world with an average of 7%, and the majority of those who are employed in such countries have substandard jobs.…”

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Predicting Employability of Congolese Information Technology Graduates Using Contextual Factors: Towards Sustainable Employability

Mpia¹,

Mwendia

Mburu

2022

Sustainability

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Predicting employability in an unstable developing country requires the use of contextual factors as predictors and a suitable machine learning model capable of generalization. This study has discovered that parental financial stability, sociopolitical, relationship, academic, and strategic factors are the factors that can contextually predict the employability of information technology (IT) graduates in the democratic republic of Congo (DRC). A deep stacking predictive model was constructed using five different multilayer perceptron (MLP) sub models. The deep stacking model measured good performance (80% accuracy, 0.81 precision, 0.80 recall, 0.77 f1-score). All the individual models could not reach these performances with all the evaluation metrics used. Therefore, deep stacking was revealed to be the most suitable method for building a generalizable model to predict employability of IT graduates in the DRC. The authors estimate that the discovery of these contextual factors that predict IT graduates’ employability will help the DRC and other similar governments to develop strategies that mitigate unemployment, an important milestone to achievement of target 8.6 of the sustainable development goals.

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Exploring Employability of Business Graduates: Evidence from Woldia University

Cited by 6 publications

References 37 publications

Perceptions of Employability of Undergraduate Business Program Graduates: A Qualitative Analysis

Perceptions of Employability of Undergraduate Business Program Graduates: A Qualitative Analysis

Malaysian Graduates Employability Challenges: A Critical Review

Predicting Employability of Congolese Information Technology Graduates Using Contextual Factors: Towards Sustainable Employability

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