Evaluation of Employability Skills and Work-Readiness of Business Graduates

This research focuses on the evaluation of employability skills and work-readiness of business graduates. It examines the challenges faced by employers in finding the right talent and the lack of relevant skills in graduates. The study also explores the importance of non-technical skills and the need for strategic alliances between business and education. The research uses qualitative research methods and references various academic papers on the topic.

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Jackson, Denise. "Testing a model of undergraduate competence in employability skills and
its implications for stakeholders." Journal of Education and Work 27, no. 2 (2014): 220-242.
At present, academic qualification is not considered to be guaranteed for various graduate
employees. Due to development of technologies, employers come up with set of skills which
match with the needs. Job vacancies are increasing at a much rapid rate, which is partly filled by
workers. Unemployment problem in most of the countries of the world is not due to lack of job
opportunities but is due to other factors like low quality graduates. Employers around the globe
have complained about the fact that they have failed to find the right talent for filling vacancy.
The business graduates lack certain number of employability skills1. The present graduates do
not have the relevant skills and knowledge which are needed by industries. For this research,
qualitative research method has been used. All the required data is collected from research paper.
References to the paper have been provided above. Qualitative result aims to support hypothesis
which will help in developing and demonstrating employee attributes. Two techniques that are
Spearman correlation and regression is needed for testing the hypothesis of people personality
towards positive nature. It is needed for analyzing the employability attribute.
Wilton, Nick. "Do employability skills matter in the UK graduate labour market? The case of
business and management graduates." Work, employment and society 25, no. 1 (2011): 85-
100.
As stated by above author, work readiness can be defined as prepared graduate who are
new entrants in this area. It merely refers to skills and knowledge which are needed to be
successful in their workplace. For this research, participants are known to be employees of
1 Jackson, Denise. "Testing a model of undergraduate competence in employability skills and its implications for
stakeholders." Journal of Education and Work 27, no. 2 (2014): 220-242.

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various firm. Sample has been used so that an idea can be gathered with respect different things.
Sample has been collected from internet sources that are from journal articles on similar topics.
One hundred employees from different organization. 50 took part in the survey. The response
rate was high and quick from 50 employees. There is a need for preparing of employability and
non-cognitive skills. Also, there is a need for proper strategic alliance in between business and
education. Basic skills come up with ability to speak, listen and to carry out some of the
mathematical procedure. It merely focuses on the overall ability to interpret all the writing
information and skills for overall communication2. A report can be stated as a mathematical skill
that has the ability solve majority of the problems. Business graduates who are entering business
need to have proficiency in applied skills. This merely highlights a list of skills which help
business graduates to make use of some basic knowledge. The collected knowledge will help
them in performing in their workplace. The applied skills comprise of critical thinking,
communication, collaboration and lastly problem solving. Business graduates entering the
workplace need to be proficiency in the applied skills. 21st employee skills and human resource
management need to have applied, which is vital for upcoming days.
Yunus, Muchtar. "THE INFLUENCE OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING, SCHOOL INDUSTRIAL/BUSINESS
PARTNERSHIP AND A FAMILY’S SOCIAL STATUS ON THE STUDENT’S READINESS TO
WORK." Man In India" An International Journal Of Anthropology" 96, no. 8 (2016): 2391-2625.
In the last few years, there has been much attention to clarifying skills that need to be
developed. Apart from this, there is a need for evaluation of employability for provision of skills
and its overall impact on graduates. It is merely considered to be an important aspect which helps
the graduate inadequacies. The paper aims to highlight an evaluation for employability skills
2 Wilton, Nick. "Do employability skills really matter in the UK graduate labour market? The case of business and
management graduates." Work, employment and society 25, no. 1 (2011): 85-100.

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outcomes and effectiveness of learning program for developing skills. Business firms around the
globe are investing with efforts and resource so that they can make response for industry call for
work-ready graduates. Work-readiness can be easily addressed in two methods that are
undergraduate’s programs for non-technical skill and career management3. The overall
advantages of learning in workplace aim to provide a degree program which is well documented
and emphasize on improving technical and non-technical skills. Graduates come up with ability
to transfer the required skills and knowledge in the given workplace. Non-technical skills are
known to be generic skills which define employability skills. It comes up with the ability to
provide creative and productive application of certain number of skills and knowledge in
workplace. No. The article provided proper information concerning employability qualities. The
article lacked clarification whether business graduates are ready for work or not. There is need
for further research for understanding the capability of business graduates.
Gribble, Catriona, Jill Blackmore, and Mark Rahimi. "Challenges to providing work-integrated
learning to international business students at Australian universities." Higher education, skills
and work-based learning 5, no. 4 (2015): 401-416.
Graduates aim to equate here the overall degree of responsibility for the business school.
Outcomes of employee skill are one of the important aspects of employability, which is affected
by some of the external aspects like exposure of graduates to certain activities. It also aims to
highlight the relationship between activities and their relationship with education and work.
Business schools aim to highlight the overall success in achieving the outcome of employee
skills and methods to identify the work-readiness. The major reason behind the employee skill
3 Yunus, Muchtar. "THE INFLUENCE OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING, SCHOOL INDURTRIAL/BUSINESS
PARTNESRHIP AND A FAMILY’S SOCIAL STATUS ON THE STUDENT’S READINESS TO WORK." Man
In India" An International Journal Of Anthropology" 96, no. 8 (2016): 2391-2625.

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outcome and their quality of provision is the absence of right framework for analysing the skills4.
The fact is mainly due to lack of funding and proper resources for evaluation of purpose. The
mere focus is all about increasing the administrative workloads in academics. A major number of
academics emphasize on challenge, which is need for much higher outcomes. The biggest plus
point in evaluation of employee skills is mainly applied to majority of the stakeholders who are
in undergraduate section.
Bremner, Pauline Ann Mary. "From fourth year to the outside world: are we making our fashion
graduates' work ready'-are their skills transferable into the workplace?" (2017).
There is a systematic way for evaluation of employability skills and their overall
outcomes. The major effectiveness comes into picture as a result of development of the skills.
This will merely help the schools and facilities in the method of evaluation of the outcomes and
their provision. It will be applied to some of the skill development programs which makes use of
bolt and embedded approach. The main reason behind the adaptation of methodology program is
the main core of the undergraduate degree of business5. The whole thing has been designed so
that it can provide proper skill for student centred design. The mere focus is teaching and
learning approach, which is emulated in workplace learning. This mainly comprises of four
important units two in the very first year, one in the second year and last one in the third year.
The given programs aim to make response to the development of graduates so that it can be
easily equipped for adding the immediate value in the present workplace.
4 Gribble, Catriona, Jill Blackmore, and Mark Rahimi. "Challenges to providing work integrated learning to
international business students at Australian universities." Higher education, skills and work-based learning 5, no. 4
(2015): 401-416.
5Bremner, Pauline Ann Mary. "From fourth year to the outside world: are we making our fashion graduates' work
ready'-are their skills transferable into the workplace?" (2017).

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References
Bremner, Pauline Ann Mary. "From fourth year to the outside world: are we making our fashion
graduates' work ready'-are their skills transferable into the workplace?" (2017).
Gribble, Catriona, Jill Blackmore, and Mark Rahimi. "Challenges to providing work integrated
learning to international business students at Australian universities." Higher education, skills
and work-based learning 5, no. 4 (2015): 401-416.
Jackson, Denise. "Testing a model of undergraduate competence in employability skills and its
implications for stakeholders." Journal of Education and Work 27, no. 2 (2014): 220-242.
Wilton, Nick. "Do employability skills really matter in the UK graduate labour market? The case
of business and management graduates." Work, employment and society 25, no. 1 (2011): 85-
100.
Yunus, Muchtar. "THE INFLUENCE OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING, SCHOOL
INDURTRIAL/BUSINESS PARTNESRHIP AND A FAMILY’S SOCIAL STATUS ON THE
STUDENT’S READINESS TO WORK." Man In India" An International Journal Of
Anthropology" 96, no. 8 (2016): 2391-2625.