Abstract
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.
Highlights
The employability skills are key requirements from the job seekers as if the activities of the organizations smoothly and successfully performed
The main rationale of this study is to identify the key problems in the employability skills of business graduates required by the organizations
Since Business graduates are pivotal part of our today’s professional education, employability skills are the best source of preparing managers and executives for the future
Summary
The employability skills are key requirements from the job seekers as if the activities of the organizations smoothly and successfully performed. The job fields of Bangladesh are inadequate, challenging, and much more competitive. In this connection, many business graduates can not avail jobs immediately after completing their graduation due to lacking of different employability skills such as communication skills, English language proficiency and literacy, information and technology skills, interpersonal skills, leadership skills, problem solving skills, adaptability skills, risk taking skills, etc. In the words of Stewart and Knowles, (2000), the major ardor of business graduates is to study a selective course in depth, and to enhance their employability skills. There is a greater need for business graduates to enhance their employability skills.
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