Employability Skills Required amongst Unemployed Youth: A Case at Beverly Hills in the Sedibeng District, Southern Gauteng

Masoka, Josiah; Selesho, Jacob M.

doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n3p132

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“…Accordingly, due to the lack of job preparation, graduates are more likely to be unemployed, as evidenced by current data [9,19,20]. In 2013, Malaysia's job loss rate amplifes from 2.7 percent to 3.4 percent, according to the Malaysian Statistics Department [21].…”

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Work Readiness, Decision‐Making Self‐Efficacy, and Career Exploration among Engineering Students: A Two‐Step Framework

Makki

Feng

Waqar

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Prior to entering the workforce, engineering students are expected to be highly skilled and contribute to decision-making with confidence in their abilities. Despite this, most students are lacking in these areas. Engineering students typically have a hard time finding work because they lack the necessary skills and are unable to take decisions with confidence. Accordingly, the Washington accord created job-ready features for engineering students that contain core knowledge and design (FKD), project management and finance (PMF), communication (C), modern tool use (MTU), teamwork (TW), engineers’ society and environment (ESE), ethics (E), and lifetime learning (LL). Work readiness (WR) literature will be examined in this study in an effort to promote decision-making self-efficacy (DMSE), which in turn leads to more successful career exploration (CE). Career discovery is then examined as a two-step process, with work readiness influencing decision-making self-efficacy and decision-making self-efficacy influencing career exploration. Malaysian private engineering universities were surveyed using a quantitative way to acquire the data. Results found a strong correlation between work readiness and decision-making self-efficacy, according to scientific evidence. Decision-making self-efficacy was also found to have a significant impact on career exploration. This study is to be useful to curtail unemployment by adopting the required skill set, which will help universities to produce engineers who are able to contribute to decision making with confidence towards exploring their careers. Overall, the results of this study might provide significant information to the related institutions and policymakers on the scarcity of decision-making of talented engineering students in Malaysia.

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Work Readiness, Decision‐Making Self‐Efficacy, and Career Exploration among Engineering Students: A Two‐Step Framework

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Feng

Waqar

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…According to Masoka and Selesho (2014), not much has been done in South Africa in terms of developing employability skills. This may be viewed as a concern, considering that employability skills are important since jobs today require graduates who can undertake different tasks.…”

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Work integrated learning competencies: Industrial supervisors’ perspectives

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2016

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Research on student-learning outcomes indicates that university graduates do not possess relevant skills required by the industry such as leadership, emotional intelligence, problem solving, communication, decision-making skills and the ability to function in a multicultural environment. Currently, engineering graduates are expected to perform within a diverse working environment, hence the need to possess appropriate professional competencies and attributes. This paper seeks to identify strengths and potential shortfalls of work integrated learning (WIL) for students placed in the engineering sector. It presents findings from a study of workplace supervisors of chemical engineering students at one university of technology on the coastal seaboard. Supervisors from a variety of chemical industries completed a WIL students' competency assessment, which measures 23 work-related competencies using a 4-point Likert scale. The competencies were organised under two broad themes of cognitive and behavioural skills. The two themes were further broken down into five sub-themes, namely ability, performance, judgement, attitude and suitability. This defines the common characteristics of superior performers within the workplace. The results show that most students meet the standard expectation on the cognitive or 'hard' skills but seem to lack the behavioural or 'soft' skills. There were statistically significant differences between cognitive and behavioural skills. The findings from this study suggest that cooperative education programmes need to do more in developing the students' soft skills before they go out for WIL placement to ensure effectiveness and broad-based technical competence.

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Employability Skills Required amongst Unemployed Youth: A Case at Beverly Hills in the Sedibeng District, Southern Gauteng

Abstract: The numbers of highly qualified, skilled and unemployed

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Work Readiness, Decision‐Making Self‐Efficacy, and Career Exploration among Engineering Students: A Two‐Step Framework

Work Readiness, Decision‐Making Self‐Efficacy, and Career Exploration among Engineering Students: A Two‐Step Framework

Work integrated learning competencies: Industrial supervisors’ perspectives

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