Measuring Employability Skills of Budding IT Professionals in India

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify employability skills among aspiring engineering graduates and develop measurement scale to assess their skill sets. This research has been conducted in two phases: Phase 1 covers the scale development process and Phase 2 covers exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and validation. The findings of EFA resulted in ten factors of employability. Subsequently, CFA identified nine different factors: leadership, critical thinking, numeracy, sociability, using technology, planning and organizing, problem-solving, teamwork, and emotional intelligence skills. The values of CFA met the acceptance level of different fit indices and thus, resulted in a good model fit. Further, the internal consistency of the total scale yielded Cronbach's alpha value (α = 0.82). The threshold values of CR, AVE, and MSV also met the required criteria. Thus, it received a valid and reliable 26-item measurement scale of employability which can prove to be useful for academia, students, and employers in computer science and information technology.

Study of Predictors of Organizational Effectiveness Among Private and Public Sector IT Companies

“…Having combined all these standardised questionnaires, data was collected on the seven-point Likert scale which is more accurate and provides an improved reflection of a respondent's accurate assessment. Furthers the insight from literature review and experts' guidance, the questionnaire was found suitable for use in the IT sector (Misra, 2021). Beside this the reliability and validity statistics is represented below in the table 2 and table 3 with elaborations.…”

“…This sector is one of the growing sectors in India which accounted for 8% of GDP in the year 2020. IT sector is more employee centric (Khurana & Misra 2021) and has always been considerate about finding the ways to enhance organizational effectiveness. Job satisfaction, organizational commitment and organizational climate are commonly studied variables in this sector, but studies of their role as predictor of organizational effectiveness is limited.…”

“…This industry is the largest employer within the private sector in India that means public companies are lesser than private. Both public and private sector IT companies are different in terms of skills required, work pressure, working environment, flexibility, nature and extent of work (Khurana & Misra 2021).…”

Hedonic Pleasure, Cyber Dating, Live-In Relationship, and Social Acceptance Amongst IT Professionals

“…However, the glamorous world, on the other hand, is revealing a distinct picture, where people are increasingly moving towards virtual space for both searching as well as building relationships. The key determinants of this transition are technological advancements, a competitive work place environment, and an active lifestyle (Hu and Kellinger, 2008;Tarafdar, et al, 2020;Khurana and Misra, 2021). People are becoming more task-driven and output-oriented to gain success in their professional lives by compromising their personal relationships.…”