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This paper reflects upon the journey of the author in facilitating collaborative teaching and learning practices for developing employability skills in General Education Mathematics courses at the undergraduate level. The paper discusses similar experiences of STEM faculty members who have experimented with collaborative learning and teaching for enhancing student experience. The research also discusses how specific employability skills can be developed during various stages of the collaborative teaching and learning model designed for the purpose of the study. Team formation and work in teams are discussed in detail. Finally, the paper concludes with the possibilities of future SoTL research for employability purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globally, with the recent technological advancement and innovative capabilities, Higher education institutions (HEI) are adopting information technology tools for teaching in online environments through virtual classroom platforms. Further, the administration of HEI is majorly concerned with students' employability skills and is always willing to empower students to achieve their career goals. The study explores the online e-learning tools like learning analytics and examine their impact on the employability skills of students of higher educational institutions for sustainable development. The paper investigates the mediation effect of learning analytics in influencing the online learning usefulness, and knowledge on the employability skills of the students. The study has used PLS-SEM approach to analyze the responses collected from 172 undergraduate students across universities of Delhi-NCR to test the hypothesis. The results confirm a positive and significant mediation of learning analytics in the relationship of e-learning usefulness and knowledge in achieving employability skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Employability of youth in India has emerged as a major concern in recent years. Generally, it is as for uneducated or unskilled, but the situation is quite alarming even for educated youth as the skills provided by the institutions may not be at par with the industry's requirement. With this background, the study discusses the outcome of the preliminary research into the employability skills that private engineering institutions try to instill during their graduate course and the employability skills that software/IT companies consider when they undertake fresh recruitment. This paper aims to find the gap between industry's expectation and the availability which results in partial placements of engineering graduates and to ascertain the relationship between the employability skills and placement of engineering graduates. In particular, the set of employability skills considered for the study was derived from the literature review and pilot study. The data are derived from a survey carried out of 98 private engineering institutions in Delhi NCR and 20 IT/software companies, and the data were analysed using regression analysis and ANOVA. Both institutions and employers were found to focus on employability skills for the best returns. However, there is mismatch in consideration of the employability skills. There are certain skills on which companies lay more attention than the engineering institutions. The findings will be helpful for the engineering institutions and the regulatory bodies in revamping the curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Change' is the rule of the disruptive era we are part of. This has been obvious especiallywith regardto the population dynamics of countries and their path towards growth and development. The Demographic Dividend has been upheld as a factor with impeccable potential - that can increase the pace of economic growth for the vast expanse of the developing world if appropriately leveraged. While many East Asian economies seem to have made phenomenal strides in growth owing to the demographic dividend, the same transition has not permeated expected growth outcomes for countries in Latin America. This paper pointshighlights the importance of Governmental Policy making, and developmental programs through upskilling of resource base as a better approachtowards enhancing development in countries like India. The study undertaken among 350 IT skilling graduates in India on their perception of employability potential of the skilling programs and second study parallelly done among 100 trainers on the kind of IT skilling programs rolled out yearly - reveals the existence and the direction of skilling needed in the country by bringing out a measure called the 'propensity to upskilling' in the IT sector. In order to ensure that Development initiatives drive optimum results to economic growth, the need of the hour is an impetus on 'IT Skills' and building up on 'Employability skills' among the people. This undeniable need for change in Development efforts to be able to give the right thrust to IT Skills and to forecast the right kind of Skills to promote employability and productivity increase. This introduces us to the new approach of Community Capacity Building. 'Strengths, Skills and Abilities of masses' - the new direction for governments of developing countries to steer ahead to speedier progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The preparation of Vocational School teacher candidates who have technical skills and employability skills begins with the learning process. This paper aims to formulate learning strategies based on scientific approach to strengthen employability skills for vocational school teacher candidates. This study employed a quantitative approach with a non-experimental survey design. The samples in the study consisted of 120 vocational teacher candidates in the Automotive Engineering Education Program, Faculty of Engineering, Semarang State University who took car body’s electrical system practice course. Research data were collected with test questions, observation sheets and questionnaires. The research data were analysed using descriptive analysis, regression analysis. The results showed that the implementation of learning strategies with scientific approach significantly strengthen employability skills of vocational teacher candidates with a contribution of 22.0%, while the remaining 78% was influenced by other factors. The reinforcement of employability skills vocational teacher candidates resulted in the reinforcement of the competitiveness of prospective graduates. When they have become vocational teachers, they are able to produce competitive vocational school graduates in 4.0 industry era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Employability Skills are identified as one of the valuable policy tools to upgrade mobility and earnings. Organization’s employees are required to possess the knowledge and skills for increasing the organization’s performance and competitiveness. This research paper is an attempt to find the major employability skills needed in medical service vertical of the Healthcare Industry. These role-specific skills have to developed and acuminated by providing right type of trainings time to time. Prominent databases were searched using combination of keywords and based on that 105 papers were selected for study. They were further filtered based on their title, abstract and findings and finally 25 papers were left. Nine most crucial employability skills were identified, which are quintessential in medical services of Healthcare Industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Non-placement WIL linked to industry partnerships is motivating for students. • The described non-placement WIL helps students to build their pre-professional identities. • A systematic approach is described to develop creativity and teamwork while solving industrial challenges. • Employability skills can be effectively learned through non-placement work-integrated learning. Preparing work-ready chemical engineering graduates is achieved by integrating the technical skills and knowledge learned at university with employability skills required by industry. While this is most often made through industry placements, non-placement forms of work-integrated learning (WIL) can be highly effective in preparing graduates for the workplace without the issues of locating work placements and ensuring their quality. In this paper, the authors focus on a chemical engineering course that combines non-placement WIL with a problem-oriented/project-based learning methodology, and a problem-solving tool, the Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) framework. The authors present qualitative data from students, lecturers, and industry partners to evaluate whether the employability skills of creativity and teamwork are developed in the course. Through a process of qualitative analysis, the authors developed five key themes that provide a focused understanding of how the parts of the course relate to one another and drive student learning. The findings of this study indicate that the model of non-placement WIL evaluated was effective in building the defined employability skills; however, there are opportunities for iterative enhancement. The key learnings from this study may guide others interested in building non-placement WIL into chemical engineering education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Work-based learning is a key component of career and technical education programs. A variety of certificated and non-certificated work-based learning programs exist for high schools to implement. Wisconsin's Youth Apprenticeship program is a widely used model of work-based learning in high school Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs across the state, yet there is limited research on the impact of these programs related to student outcomes. This paper describes the findings from a study in which educational and employment outcomes of secondary CTE concentrator-completers participating in a Youth Apprenticeship and/or Employability Skills program were analyzed. Findings indicate that participating in a Youth Apprenticeship program while concentrating in a secondary CTE program of study may lead to a higher rate of continuing into one's area of concentration after high school than students earning Wisconsin's Employability Skills Certificate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Empowering LIS professionals and making them acquainted with the latest technology based services to work competently in modern libraries is discussed in the paper. The paper examines the perceptions of recent Library and Information Science (LIS) graduates about their respective LIS curriculum and seeks suggestions. Participants include LIS professionals from a wide range of institutions including universities, research institutions, colleges, government departments, Corporate/Industrial Sector as also LIS Research Scholars from different parts of India. Results indicate that recent library and information science graduates are not satisfied with the curriculum, infrastructure, lab facilities and teaching methodologies. Professionals have also responded that the current program should be reviewed and revised according to the changing needs of the market. Suggestions for further research are proposed to study the need and expectations of the employer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Employability is somebody's prospective for gaining and maintaining employment. Basically employability depends on basic three parameters and these parameters are as education, understanding power and personal development. It is the capability to achieve the preliminary employment, to continue it and to obtain different one, if it is required. This paper introduced an innovative knowledgeable system for valuation of employability through some fuzzy rules. The purpose and scope of this concern research is to observe the optimal valuation for employability. This concern research considers three employability skills as an input namely Education, Understanding power and Personal development and find out a novel crisp value for employability which is basically characterize the ability of employee. This paper uses twenty seven fuzzy rules, by using Mamdani type fuzzy inference system in Mat-lab for catches solitary value of output named as employability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Employability is somebody's prospective for gaining and maintaining employment. Basically employability depends on basic three parameters and these parameters are as education, understanding power and personal development. It is the capability to achieve the preliminary employment, to continue it and to obtain different one, if it is required. This paper introduced an innovative knowledgeable system for valuation of employability through some fuzzy rules. The purpose and scope of this concern research is to observe the optimal valuation for employability. This concern research considers three employability skills as an input namely Education, Understanding power and Personal development and find out a novel crisp value for employability which is basically characterize the ability of employee. This paper uses twenty seven fuzzy rules, by using Mamdani type fuzzy inference system in Mat-lab for catches solitary value of output named as employability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports on a qualitative study aimed at investigating whether Australian Information Systems (IS) students undertaking a team-based capstone subject with real clients believed the subject had enhanced their employability skills. This research is important because UK and Australian governments and industry are increasingly pressuring universities to focus more on developing employability skills. The paper makes a contribution to the literature since there are few empirical studies examining students' perceptions of capstone subjects and none, to our knowledge, focusing on employability skills. Our study suggests that students believed the capstone subject did improve a broad range of employability skills and it also demonstrates the interrelated nature of these skills. We conjecture that the team-based, real-client model of capstone is particularly useful, compared to other capstone models, because it is especially effective at integrating the range of employability skills such as teamwork, communication, problem solving and self-management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the rapid growth of digital technology and rise in virtual learning centres offering online courses and degrees to students, E-Learning has gained a vital role to play in future as a class room teaching tool and self-study platform for skill development. The emphasis of this paper is to identify prominent factors of e-learning for the development of job-specific skills. Step wise multiple regression analysis was performed. The result suggests that from the student’s perspective, besides other factors flexibility in E-learning is the most prominent factor for developing job specific skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to significant rates of demographic dividend, the bulk of India's population is comprised of the youth. Official estimates indicate that more than 54 per cent of India's population is below the age of 25 years. By 2030, India requires a substantial increase in the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including vocational and employability skills, in order to meet the social and industrial skill demands. Skill development in India is experiencing a transition from a supply-led to a demand-led system. The qualifications under the National Skills Qualification Framework are being aligned to globally recognized qualifications framework for ensuring quality and international workforce mobility. The key obstacles in the effective implementation of VET programmes in India include low social and aspirational value, lack of awareness of the importance ofskill development, mismatch between the demand and supply of skills, uncertainty amongst youth in career choices due to lack of understanding about career prospects and job security, lack of curriculum that supports development of 21[sup st] century skills, lack of linkages with industry for on-the-job training, internships and apprenticeship training and inadequate alignment of skill development with social, economic and sustainable development goals. The challenge, therefore, is to add value to general education through vocationalisation of education and to make vocational education aspirational for students. This paper examines some of these challenges and critical issues that need to be addressed for making VET more relevant to the skill needs of the people, the world of work and sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers (a) a multidimensional Employability Skill Scale development method, and (b) one 30-item, seven-dimensional, and another 26-item six-dimensional employability skill requirement scale for use with entry-level human resources management positions, as perceived by employers and students, respectively, in Bangladesh. The study is based on samples of 174 and 446 survey responses collected from corporate managers and university students, respectively. There were significant variations in opinions between employers and students on employability skill requirements in entry-level human resources management positions. Employers prioritized skills such as subject knowledge, applying knowledge, listening effectively, breadth of knowledge, working safely, and self-management. On the other hand, students preferred skills such as team leading ability, complex problem-solving ability, judgment ability, proactivity, negotiation ability, strength of reference, type of university, and image of the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the employability of LIS graduates, its trend, and the skills needed to enhance employability. It is based on a study conducted on the employability of LIS graduates of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda over a period of ten years. Findings show that employability of LIS graduates is nearly 100 %. Employability trends can be traced to changes in the nature of employers, salary and designation in recent years. Further, communication skills and IT skills are found to be very indispensable employability skills that the LIS graduates should possess. This finding has implications towards regular revamping of LIS curriculum design in a way that would enable the LIS graduates to meet the expectations of changing information job market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the perceptions of employability skills of undergraduates at a university in Kingston, Jamaica. A total of 150 (88 female, 62 male) registered students were the respondents for the study. One overall research question guided the study. Using quantitative methodology, this descriptive survey aimed to determine the extent to which undergraduate students valued employability skills. One questionnaire was administered as the primary tool for data collection. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results showed that across the five fields of study (Business Management and Administration, Health Sciences, Engineering, Architecture and Construction, Education and Training) respondents agreed that employability skills were important for both today's workforce and that of the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During 2007/8, Southampton Solent University worked on a Leadership Foundation project focused on the utility of the multi-functional team approach as a vehicle to deliver innovation in strategic and operational terms in higher education (HE). The Task-Orientated Multi-Functional Team Approach (TOMFTA) project took two significant undertakings for Southampton Solent as key areas for investigation, one academic and one administrative in focus. The academic project was the development of an innovative and novel degree programme in knowledge management (KM). The new KM Honours degree programme is timely both in recognition of the increasing importance to organisations of knowledge as a commodity, and in its adoption of a distinctive structure and pedagogy. The methodology for the KM curriculum design brings together student-centred and market-driven approaches: positioning the programme for the interests of students and requirements of employers, rather than just the capabilities of staff; while looking at ways that courses can be delivered with more flexibility, e.g. accelerated and block-mode; with level-differentiated activities, common cross-year content and material that is multi-purpose for use in short courses. In order to permit context at multiple levels in common, a graduate skills strand is taught separately as part of the University's business-facing education agenda. The KM portfolio offers a programme of practically-based courses integrating key themes in knowledge management, business, information distribution and development of the media. They develop problem-solving, communications, teamwork and other employability skills as well as the domain skills needed by emerging information management technologies. The new courses are built on activities which focus on different aspects of KM, drawing on existing content as a knowledge base. This paper presents the ongoing development of the KM programme through the key aspects in its conception and design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]