Abstract
The graduates’ readiness for employability has become a major issue for HEIs in the world due to growing concern from governments and industries on the quality of the graduates. As thus, this paper intends to determine the most required skills for Engineering graduate’s readiness for employability. Therefore, the main objective of the current study is to determine the skills required for Graduates’ Readiness for Employability for Engineering graduates. Specifically, this study intends to review the most current literature to specify the most required skills for the readiness of Engineering Graduates for Employability in the Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in the world. The study reviews the current literature on graduates’ readiness for employability especially for engineering graduates as the main source of information. The study is designed to analyze and determine the engineering graduates’ readiness for employability required skills. The literature utilized for this study covers the latest literature (from 2014 to 2019) extracted from Google Scholar, ProQuest, and Scopus. The three main keywords used were ‘higher education’, ‘employability skills ‘or ‘readiness for employability skills, and ‘skills gap in the world. The study determines the engineering graduates’ readiness for employability required skills for the HEIs in the world. It analyses the most influential required skills for the graduate readiness for employability that will be considered as an empirical study on the graduates of the engineering colleges in the world. The study conceptualizes graduate readiness for employability requirements from the latest literature and papers. The results of the study will fill the gap in understanding the main required engineering graduates’ readiness for employability skills in the world. This study is intended to determine the most required graduates’ readiness for employability skills for engineering in the HEIs in the world. Besides, it will be used to advise a policy guideline for HEIs and researchers for the understanding of graduates’ readiness for employability skills requirements in the HEIs in the world.
Highlights
The higher education (HE) has received close attention from his Majesty Sultan Qaboos in the earlier stage of the Oman renaissance
“Employability” is delineated as the “ability of a graduate to be employed as a result of the skills and attitudes he attained, and the way he promotes himself to potential employers”. while graduates’ readiness for employability is known as the readiness of a graduate student through the attainment of most required skills, career ethics, an individual’s attributes, and behaviors which aid the graduates to conduct tasks of the workplace efficiently
Many recent empirical pieces of research have classified the most required Graduate Readiness for Employability skills that are aiming to eliminate the skills Gap of HE system graduates, as; Firstly soft skills consisting of Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, communication skills, lifelong learning, and information literacy, Team-working skills, Professional ethics and morality, Entrepreneurship skills, and Leadership skills (Adnan, Daud, Alias, & Razali, 2017; Al-Azri, 2016; Anastasiu et al, 2017; Belwal et al, 2017; Craps et al, 2017; Evans, Davis, & Wheeler, 2017; Finch, Hamilton, Baldwin, & Zehner, 2013; Gupta, Singh, & Kaushik, 2018; Lane, 2017; Moore & Morton, 2017; Neisler, Clayton, Al-Barwani, Al Kharusi, & Al-Sulaimani, 2016)
Summary
The higher education (HE) has received close attention from his Majesty Sultan Qaboos in the earlier stage of the Oman renaissance. Many types of Research conducted on citizens of Oman reveal that unemployment figures for nationals under the age of 30 are high and the private industries are reluctant to adhere to the official employment policies, fundamentally, it is because of the skills gap (Barnett, Malcolm, & Toledo, 2015; Belwal, Priyadarshi, & Al Fazari, 2017; Forstenlechner & Rutledge, 2010; Silatech & Bank, 2010).the main principle connection between HE and the private sector is understood through the magnitude and level of graduates’ readiness for employability skills that the HEIs inject into the graduates which match the employer’s needs (Al-Harthi, 2011; Allen & De Weert, 2007) This principle connection is considered as an initial factor for graduate readiness for employability which connects graduate attributes and graduates’ employability skills and competencies. Its exact specific description has not yet been finalized (Brown & Scase, 2005; Hillage & Pollard, 1998; Yorke, 2006)
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