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FULL LENGTH RESEARCH
Malaysian Employers’ Perspective on Engineering Graduates’ Employability Skills: Evidence from 10 years of Studies
Thulasimani Munohsamy
Accepted 8 December 2015
The acquisition of employability skills has been debated all over the world in the academic community recently. Nowadays, acquiring knowledge in only academic field is no longer sufficient to ensure students’ future career. Therefore mastering skills in this modern world would be vital for graduates to obtain a promising job where they are able to excel and grow. This study attempts to explore and prioritize the important employability skills required by the employers in Malaysian Engineering sector based on a literature survey of educational reports, empirical and theoretical research papers done in Malaysia for the last ten years (2003 to 2013). The findings indicate that many research studies have revealed a consistent core set of desirable employable skills acquired by employers in the engineering sectors from graduates such as communication skills, teamwork, problem solving skills, interpersonal skills, thinking skills, leadership skills, theory application, decision making, lifelong learning skills and ICT skills, ranked from the most acquired to least acquired skills. Therefore, higher education should take measures to plan and develop these skills into their curriculum and to be taught to the graduates in order to prepare them for the competitive working world.
Key words: Employability Skills, Engineering Graduates, Evidence
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Current Issue: December: Vol. 3(2) pp.150-159
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