scholarly journals Employability Skills of Business Graduates in Job Markets of Bangladesh: Investigating Weaknesses and Suggesting Improvements

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-27
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Skills ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Business Curriculum ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Intense Competition ◽  
Business Graduates ◽  
Team Working ◽  
Proper Training ◽  
Schooling System

Job seekers have to face intense competition to get the expected job in the current job market of Bangladesh. A plethora of job seekers especially business graduates are coming to the job markets having MBA degrees but fails or takes longer time to get expected jobs since employability skills are the prime requirement for every contemporary organization. The study aims to investigate the weaknesses in the employability skills of business graduates in Bangladesh and suggest some effective measures to curtail those weaknesses. A self-administered survey instrument developed, some items deleted after analysis, and some items revised to get a concrete one. This questionnaire sent to 300 students who already graduated with an MBA degree and are trying to get expected jobs. Among them, 280 usable responses collected and used as the sample in this study. The ranking method and proportion analysis used for analyzing the collected data. The findings revealed that the business graduates of Bangladesh possessed significant lacking employability skills as inadequate team-working skills, lack of communication and interpersonal skills, unable to learn and adapt to the environment, lack of negotiation skills, and shortage of organizing skills. Moreover, this study suggested some measures like providing proper training, arranging case competitions and job fairs, the mitigating gap between the schooling system and market demands, re-arranging the business curriculum, and so on for taking consideration by concerned authorities to solve the identified weaknesses.

scholarly journals The Employability Skills Needed To Face the Demands of Work in the Future: Systematic Literature Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 595-603
Author(s):  
Nuryake Fajaryati ◽  
Muhammad Akhyar ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Work Demands ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Team Working ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
The Future ◽  
Three Stages

AbstractThe qualified human resources with high competitiveness and employability skills are needed to face the era of technological disruption, but employers find a lack of expertise among job seekers. Insufficient skills are related to the issue of education quality. This study aims to identify the employers’ employability skills needed in the career field and the way to integrate it into the instructional process. The research was conducted through Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and mapping approach that consisted of three stages: planning, conducting, and reporting. The literature reviews in this research were derived from Science direct, Springer and IEEE as the main references. The results from the analysis in the literature review showed that employability skills are needed in relation to the work demands in the future according to the employers covering communication, team working, problem solving, and technological skills. The implementation of employability skills in the instructional process is to integrate them into the classroom for all subjects.

Mastering the Job Market

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth L. Shoenfelt
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Technical Writing ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Master's Programs ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Business Acumen

Mastering the Job Market: Career Issues for Master’s Level Industrial-Organizational Psychologists is the definitive source for practical advice and data-based recommendations addressing key issues leading to successful careers as industrial-organizational (I-O) master’s practitioners. Both the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the American Psychological Association have reported a bright outlook for I-O master’s graduates. The increased interest in and growth of I-O master’s programs and graduates are attributed to higher visibility in the workplace, readily obtained jobs, interesting work, and great pay. A large nationwide survey of I-O master’s practitioners and their employers lays the foundation for the data-based recommendations throughout the book. Authors from top-ranked I-O master’s programs address topics such as the job search, applying for jobs, on-boarding, organizational roles, salaries, career transitions, and maintaining professionalism throughout one’s career. Critical insights into the nuts and bolts of conducting a job search and other specific strategies are provided to enable job seekers to land one or multiple job offers within six months of graduation. Competencies identified as essential for success as an I-O practitioner include core I-O knowledge and skills, as well as enabling competencies such as oral communication, business acumen, consulting skills, project management, ethics, and technical writing. Mentoring is discussed, and three best practices are recommended for maximizing mentoring relationships. Recommendations are made for professional development opportunities for I-O master’s graduates to increase their knowledge and skills and to advance their careers. Graduates overwhelmingly perceive their I-O master’s degree to be valuable for their career success.

scholarly journals Searching for employment: highly educated immigrant women and combined capabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Tytti Steel ◽  
Marjut Jyrkinen
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Gender And Age

Our paper addresses the ways in which highly educated immigrant women encounter and experience employment services in Finland. This qualitative study examines a group of women who have experience with both governmentally funded Employment and Economic Centre services (TE Services) and services offered by the third sector. The research question in this paper is as follows: How do the employment services support the capabilities of immigrant women job seekers trying to find work? Our analysis is inspired by Sen’s capability approach and Nussbaum’s concept of combined capabilities. The first empirical section addresses women with a foreign background as job seekers and their internal capabilities. We look at the enabling factors and hurdles faced by highly educated immigrant women trying to enter the job market due to their gender and age. In the second empirical section, we analyse how the combined capabilities are constructed through contacts with employment services.

Analysis of skill gap for business graduates: managerial perspective from banking industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhad Khurshid Abbasi ◽  
Amjad Ali ◽  
Naila Bibi
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Paired Samples ◽  
Business Graduates ◽  
Skill Gaps ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Managerial Perspective

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the gap between skills expected by managers and skills possessed by business graduates employed by banking industry. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire-based survey was conducted with bank officers under whom fresh business graduates were working. They were asked to indicate the importance of 12 employability skills in the industry and to rate business graduates working under them against these skills. Results are achieved by applying paired samples and independent samples t-tests on data collected from 121 bank officers. Findings Results prove that overall employability skills of the graduates are lesser than expected by the managers. Significant skill gaps were found for listening, problem solving, communication, leadership, interpersonal, analytical, self-management, numeracy and critical thinking. Results also reveal that problem-solving skill of male graduates is superior that that of females. Practical implications The study makes business graduates clear in what skills they are to learn and how it relates to the expectations of managers in banking industry. It helps business schools to revise and improve curriculum of some specialized banking programs according to the needs of the industry. Originality/value This is the first study that investigates the skills required by the banking industry out of business graduates. It also identifies the skill gaps for fresh business graduates from managerial perspective in banking industry of Pakistan.

Integrating OLAP/SOLAP in E-Business Domains

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Ben Ali ◽  
Samar Mouakket
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Analytical Processing ◽  
User Friendly

E-business domains have been considered killer domains for different data analysis techniques. Most researchers have examined data mining (DM) techniques to analyze the databases behind E-business websites. DM has shown interesting results, but this technique presents some restrictions concerning the content of the database and the level of expertise of the users interpreting the results. In this paper, the authors show that successful and more sophisticated results can be obtained using other analysis techniques, such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Spatial OLAP (SOLAP). Thus, the authors propose a framework that fuses or integrates OLAP with SOLAP techniques in an E-business domain to perform easier and more user-friendly data analysis (non-spatial and spatial) and improve decision making. In addition, the authors apply the framework to an E-business website related to online job seekers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The results can be used effectively by decision makers to make crucial decisions in the job market of the UAE.

Do Interns Know What They Think They Know? Assessing Business Communication Skills in Interns and Recent Graduates

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie G. Schartel Dunn ◽  
Peggy L. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Interpersonal Skills ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Business Curriculum ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
Recent Graduates

This article extends a dialogue regarding how (and what) communication skills are stressed within business schools, which should be regularly examined and updated. Specifically, this article addresses which skills interns and employers perceive as important. Results indicate that interns and their supervisors have similar perceptions of which communication skills are most important. Furthermore, emphasis placed on communication skills in the business curriculum did not necessarily translate to perceived importance by the interns. Skills employers perceived to be important were compared with adequacy of interns’ skills. Writing, proofreading, interpersonal skills with customers, and listening were among the skills interns lacked.

Do employability skills for business graduates meet the employers’ expectations? The case of retail Islamic banks of Bahrain

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Al-Shehab ◽  
Mukhtar AL-Hashimi ◽  
Araby Madbouly ◽  
Sameh Reyad ◽  
Allam Hamdan
Keyword(s):  
Business Students ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Self Administration ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Graduates ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Strategic Plans

PurposeManagers claim that fresh graduates are unequipped to meet market demands. The aim of this study is to investigate the perception of employers in retail Islamic banks of Bahrain on newly graduated business students. The Singaporean Model of Employability Skills was implemented, to ascertain the mean ratings of employability skills in terms of their importance and the competency of business graduates.Design/methodology/approachThis deductive research approach initiated with a literature review that identifies research gap and a model that was tested via a self-administration adopted survey by collected data from 220 senior employees at retail Islamic banks of BahrainFindingsThe systematic of convenience sampling technique was used in selecting 161 samples and the researcher received only 85 completed questionnaire forms. Findings initiate that employers appreciated the importance of teamwork, risk management and decision-making skills. Their main recommendation was that employers should establish a durable bond with universities to enhance employability skills.Originality/valueBecause the researcher gathered all data from employers of different Islamic banks in Bahrain, this sector in addition will get the advantage of the results that banks will formulate their strategic plans accordingly to tackle the business graduates’ weaknesses. Likewise, universities and researchers might be motivated to look into new innovative methods that assist graduates to accommodate with market conditions.

Undergraduate management education: Its place, purpose and efforts to bridge the skills gap

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Business School ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Skills Gap ◽  
Business Graduates ◽  
Common Response ◽  
Industry Professionals

AbstractAustralian business graduates are deemed by industry as not being ‘job ready’ (BCA 2006; BIHECC 2007), lacking the skills required to successfully apply disciplinary knowledge and add value to our globalised, knowledge economy. There exists a lack of empirical evidence and professional input for business schools on profiling the attributes valued by industry. This is especially true for those majoring in management who are consistently overshadowed by their more commercially attractive postgraduate counterparts. In a bid to satisfy industry demands, the most common response among Australian business schools are the development of employability skills and enhanced involvement of industry professionals in curricula content and design, both subject to potential failings and criticism. This review of business school efforts to bridge the skills gap also examines the role, function and impact of undergraduate management education, a research area significantly overlooked in recent years.

Graduate employment trends in the life sciences: implications for microbiology educators

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
John V Smith ◽  
Danilla Grando ◽  
Nina Fotinatos
Keyword(s):  
Life Sciences ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Graduate Employment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Employment Trends

Graduates in the Life Sciences, including microbiology have experienced similar employment trends to graduates in other fields over the past 30 years. Recent downward trends in graduate employment levels have raised concerns among educators and the community in general. Awareness of the diverse opportunities for graduates of microbiology is needed. For many, explicit education in ‘employability skills' is also considered to be needed to enable graduates to succeed in the competitive job market.

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