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APAcS star promoting graduate employability traits / Puteh Mariam Ismail, Normahiran Yatim and Norhayati Alias

The issue of graduates' employability has become a growing concern globally. With many graduates, but limited positions in the workforce, it is imminent for graduates to possess employability traits. Employers also expect the students to learn a multitude of skills and abilities, on top of know...

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Main Authors: Ismail, Puteh Mariam, Yatim, Normahiran, Alias, Norhayati
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spelling my.uitm.ir.659132023-07-21T00:13:30Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/65913/ APAcS star promoting graduate employability traits / Puteh Mariam Ismail, Normahiran Yatim and Norhayati Alias ijelhe Ismail, Puteh Mariam Yatim, Normahiran Alias, Norhayati The issue of graduates' employability has become a growing concern globally. With many graduates, but limited positions in the workforce, it is imminent for graduates to possess employability traits. Employers also expect the students to learn a multitude of skills and abilities, on top of knowledge of accounting, while studying in the university. To reduce this gap, a student development framework, the APAcS Star was established. APAcS Star aims to bridge the gap by arming students with essential interpersonal skills. Based on three core Skill Areas, namely Critical Thinking, Communications and Leadership skills. APAcS Star is executed by further breaking those Skill Area into Traits. These traits connote an element of a Skill that, by mastering a number of those smaller Traits, will lead to a mastery of the major Skill. In conclusion, this framework was able to assist the higher education provider to craft and develop a multitude of skills and abilities of its graduates, thus reducing the employability gap. UiTM Press 2020-01 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/65913/2/65913.pdf APAcS star promoting graduate employability traits / Puteh Mariam Ismail, Normahiran Yatim and Norhayati Alias. (2020) International Journal of e-Learning and Higher Education (IJELHE) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/International_Journal_of_e-Learning_and_Higher_Education_=28IJELHE=29/>, 12 (1): 1. pp. 5-24. ISSN 2229-8223 https://journalined.uitm.edu.my/
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description The issue of graduates' employability has become a growing concern globally. With many graduates, but limited positions in the workforce, it is imminent for graduates to possess employability traits. Employers also expect the students to learn a multitude of skills and abilities, on top of knowledge of accounting, while studying in the university. To reduce this gap, a student development framework, the APAcS Star was established. APAcS Star aims to bridge the gap by arming students with essential interpersonal skills. Based on three core Skill Areas, namely Critical Thinking, Communications and Leadership skills. APAcS Star is executed by further breaking those Skill Area into Traits. These traits connote an element of a Skill that, by mastering a number of those smaller Traits, will lead to a mastery of the major Skill. In conclusion, this framework was able to assist the higher education provider to craft and develop a multitude of skills and abilities of its graduates, thus reducing the employability gap.
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author Ismail, Puteh Mariam
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title APAcS star promoting graduate employability traits / Puteh Mariam Ismail, Normahiran Yatim and Norhayati Alias
title_short APAcS star promoting graduate employability traits / Puteh Mariam Ismail, Normahiran Yatim and Norhayati Alias
title_full APAcS star promoting graduate employability traits / Puteh Mariam Ismail, Normahiran Yatim and Norhayati Alias
title_fullStr APAcS star promoting graduate employability traits / Puteh Mariam Ismail, Normahiran Yatim and Norhayati Alias
title_full_unstemmed APAcS star promoting graduate employability traits / Puteh Mariam Ismail, Normahiran Yatim and Norhayati Alias
title_sort apacs star promoting graduate employability traits / puteh mariam ismail, normahiran yatim and norhayati alias
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