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Engineers employability competency: employer perspective

Organized by Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship UniMAP in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, 5th - 6th December 2008 at Putra Palace Hotel, Perlis.

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Main Authors: Hazmilah, Hasan, Dunn, Ian, Jones, Ray
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis 2009
Subjects:
Engineering
Employability
Competency
Employer
Engineers
Interpersonal relations
Entrepreneurial skills
Engineering > Study and teaching
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/5684
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spelling my.unimap-56842009-05-09T07:28:42Z Engineers employability competency: employer perspective Hazmilah, Hasan Dunn, Ian Jones, Ray Engineering Employability Competency Employer Engineers Interpersonal relations Entrepreneurial skills Engineering -- Study and teaching Organized by Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship UniMAP in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, 5th - 6th December 2008 at Putra Palace Hotel, Perlis. The objectives of this study is to assess whether the suggested lack of interpersonal and enterprise skills competencies cause unemployment amongst engineering graduates in Malaysia. Critically appraise if engineering undergraduates have received a quality work placement (appropriate to their learning, knowledge and employability skills) and to enhance in interpersonal and enterprise skills competencies awareness amongst engineering undergraduates in Malaysia. This study will employ qualitative method. An interview questionnaire adapted from Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ), Australia (Ramsden, 1991) and combination of L. Harvey (2001), generic skill criteria for workplace framework will be utilized to suit the research purpose. The result from the interview will be interpreted. The qualitative result revealed that the employers generally had delivered working exposure to the industrial training trainees. 2009-05-09T07:28:42Z 2009-05-09T07:28:42Z 2008-12-05 Working Paper p.245-256 http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5684 en International Conference on the Roles of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Eengineering 2008 (ICOHSE08) Universiti Malaysia Perlis
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
building UniMAP Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Malaysia Perlis
content_source UniMAP Library Digital Repository
url_provider http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/
language English
topic Engineering
Employability
Competency
Employer
Engineers
Interpersonal relations
Entrepreneurial skills
Engineering -- Study and teaching
spellingShingle Engineering
Employability
Competency
Employer
Engineers
Interpersonal relations
Entrepreneurial skills
Engineering -- Study and teaching
Hazmilah, Hasan
Dunn, Ian
Jones, Ray
Engineers employability competency: employer perspective
description Organized by Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship UniMAP in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, 5th - 6th December 2008 at Putra Palace Hotel, Perlis.
format Working Paper
author Hazmilah, Hasan
Dunn, Ian
Jones, Ray
author_facet Hazmilah, Hasan
Dunn, Ian
Jones, Ray
author_sort Hazmilah, Hasan
title Engineers employability competency: employer perspective
title_short Engineers employability competency: employer perspective
title_full Engineers employability competency: employer perspective
title_fullStr Engineers employability competency: employer perspective
title_full_unstemmed Engineers employability competency: employer perspective
title_sort engineers employability competency: employer perspective
publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis
publishDate 2009
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/5684
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