Employability and Learning Transfer: What do Students Experience During Their Placements?

Oliveira, Gisela

doi:10.5817/sp2015-4-8

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“…The researcher tried to map the existing literature to identify the gaps that may exist. Oliveira (2015) discusses the concept of transfer theory applicable to the graduate students who face this situation during a transformation phase from full time education to full time employment scenario. The paper identified the drawbacks of human capital theory and mentioned that the learning transfer theory is a better model than others are as it has the narrow view of student's first work life experience.…”

Section: Review Of Past Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Employability

Mohapatra*,

Das,

Patnaik

et al. 2019

IJITEE

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Technical education becomes the need of the hour as organizations are looking for employees who are technically sound and has the capacity to accommodate themselves in any kind of changing business environment. Flexibility comes first followed by the knowledge and expertise. There is need for educational sector reform to address the gap between existing employability skills and skill levels at entry level job. Most of the literatures observed the gap that exists in the present scenario. There is a specific need from the employer that they are looking for people who do not have basic skills but a diversity of knowledge that helps them to achieve business optimization. The present paper is an effort to understand the importance of ICT and employability. This paper is a kind of review and the objective of the paper is to understand the role of ICT in employability and to undertake an intensive empirical study based on the various research gaps identified from such reviews. Only secondary data included, for which the information collected by visiting various libraries and with the help of online journals for this paper. The present study will definitely give new dimension to all existing literatures.

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Section: Review Of Past Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%