The Employability Skills Performance of Business Graduates in Malaysia: Do Employers, Graduates and Academicians Speak the Same Language?

Employability skills may implicate and reflect the employment opportunity especially among the new graduates. This study aims to compare the performance of employability skills among new business graduates in Malaysia base on stakeholder perceptions; they are the employer, academician and new gradu...

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Main Authors: Erni, Tanius, Husna, Binti Johari, Astri`, Yulia, Heng, Chin Siong, Khairul Hanim, Pazim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AESS Publications 2018
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/22985/1/Erni%20Tanius.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/22985/
http://www.aessweb.com/journals/5007
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Summary:Employability skills may implicate and reflect the employment opportunity especially among the new graduates. This study aims to compare the performance of employability skills among new business graduates in Malaysia base on stakeholder perceptions; they are the employer, academician and new graduate. Besides, is to identify if there is any significant difference between their opinions. Three sets of questionnaires were established to evaluate employability skills; they are basic, applied, interpersonal and 21st-century skills. The result revealed that stakeholders rated the performance of new graduate high and interpersonal skill is the most performed. The result also revealed that they speak in a different language in which specific skills is the most important than the others. Accordingly, recommendations and limitations highlighted in this study