Analysis of Employability for Bachelor Graduates of Faculty Engineering and Built Environment for Year 2011

Employability Skills Model for Engineering Technology Students

“…In addition, a relationship exists between employability and economic factors, academic (Awang, et al, 2012) and knowledge (Eby, Butts & Lockwood, 2003) as well as gender (Ang, 2015). In Malaysian context, the unemployment trend seems similar with other countries in the world.…”

“…The employability skill can be defined as the ability of an individual to be employed who have the required expertise, knowledge and understanding are in the related field (Lorraine & Sewell, 2007). The capabilities of one's to engage, reflect and articulate in opportunities also defines employability (Awang, Kadaruddin, Najid, & Omar, 2012). Consensus in defining employability is still arguable since some researchers defined the term explicitly and the rest defined implicitly yet one common understanding of employability is about getting a job.…”