Fresh Graduates Research Articles

Channelling compassion towards change: elite volunteerism, corporate philanthropy and education reform in urban India

ABSTRACT This article explores how young elite urban professionals and fresh graduates in Mumbai and Delhi are fostering diverse aspirations of service, entrepreneurship and charting new professional mobilities through volunteering opportunities at a well-known corporate-supported non-governmental organisation (NGO), the Teach for India (TFI) programme. Mostly with commerce, engineering and management educational backgrounds, the TFI intervention operates as a nodal site for these elite youth to not just serve underprivileged children through ‘acts of compassion’ but also channel their experiences to understand the education system and reinvigorate it through corporate management values of enterprise and performance. Through examining the trajectories of these individuals, I foreground the nascent terrain of technocratic expertise being shaped through an interlinked collective of corporate NGOs that have become prominent in advising the Delhi state government, under the leadership of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), to improve public education through discourses of enterprise and performance.

Investigation and Analysis on the Status Quo of College Students’ Network Entrepreneurship in Private University

This year, the number college graduates in China surpassed tens of millions for the first time. The employment rate of fresh graduates has been concerning. In view of this, network entrepreneurship has become an important channel and platform to solve the problem of college students’ employment. The government, society and universities has been actively encouraging college students' network entrepreneurship as the value of college students' network entrepreneurship is significant. This paper analyzes the current situation of college students' network entrepreneurship and the problems faced through the survey data and thus suggests corresponding countermeasures.

A Multi-Group Study of Psychological Capital and Job Search Behaviours Among University Graduates With and Without Work Placement Learning Experience

We build upon the social cognitive career theory model of career self-management (SCCT-CSM) to test the effects of psychological capital constructs (hope, self-efficacy, optimism and resilience) on preparatory and active job search behaviours, mediated by job search goals in a multi-group study of university graduates who undertook work placement learning before graduation and those who did not. Using a two-wave data from 473 university fresh graduates in the one-year national youth service corps ( N = 209 who undertook work placement learning before graduation) and ( N = 264 who did not undertake work placement learning) in Nigeria, we test an SCCT-CSM-driven model employing structural equation modelling for the multi-group study. The findings revealed positive effects of self-efficacy and optimism on the preparatory and active job search behaviours across both samples but higher effects in the graduates who undertook work placement learning before graduation. Job search goals mediated the effects of self-efficacy and optimism on their preparatory and active job search behaviours in both samples. The serial mediation results show that self-efficacy and optimism indirectly affect the active job search behaviours via job search goals and preparatory job search behaviours. The implications of these results are discussed.

Employers’ Viewpoints on Strategic Competence for Workplace Communication

Strategic competence refers to the use of both verbal and nonverbal communication to (1) compensate for breakdowns in communication, (2) manage insufficient competence in communication, or (3) enhance the effectiveness of communication (Canale, 1983). In the teaching and learning of English as a second or foreign language, such strategies are useful to ensure that messages are communicated accurately despite limitations in vocabulary or grammatical competence. In the context of higher education, these strategies are especially useful for fresh graduates who wish to seek employment in an English-medium workplace. However, very little research has examined the acceptable strategies that can be used by fresh graduates to minimize breakdowns in communication that result from existing language barriers. Hence, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 employers in Malaysia to uncover different strategies that are used in the workplace to avoid breakdowns in communication. The findings show that metacognitive strategies through observing others to improve communication as well as cognitive strategies such as obtaining direct feedback on specific terminologies, formats or wordings are among the strategies that fresh graduates could utilize to improve their competence in communicating at the workplace. Thus, the findings of this research are especially valuable for educators and fresh graduates to develop communicative competence to communicate effectively in the workplace.

Strategies in Enhancing the Employability of Fresh Graduates in The Malaysian Construction Industry During Pandemic Outbreak

Strategies in Enhancing the Employability of Fresh Graduates in The Malaysian Construction Industry During Pandemic Outbreak

The expectations of employability skills in the Fourth Industrial Revolution of the communication and media industry in Malaysia

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the industry's expectations on the key employability skills of fresh graduates in the communication and media industry. The Fourth Industrial Revolution has raised the question of whether the university should produce work-ready graduates with employability skills. Driven by the theory of human capital, society expects higher education to produce graduates with skills that are useful in their workplace.Design/methodology/approachThe data were gathered primarily through a quantitative survey, which was later extended to include qualitative interviews. Quantitatively, questionnaires were completed by 313 employers from the middle and top-level management from the communication and media industry. This study also expands on qualitative data through in-depth interviews with nine respondents who were among key decision-makers of recruiting graduates to garner their insights on required employability skills.FindingsThe findings revealed the following employability skills required by the industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: communication, ICT or digital, leadership, interpersonal, and personal qualities skills.Research limitations/implicationsThese findings are beneficial to education providers as well as media and communication industries in preparing students and developing their skills to adapt to the changes in the workplace.Originality/valueThe authors provide an empirical understanding of industry expectations towards employability skills in the Fourth Industrial Revolution of the communication and media industry within the Malaysian context.

The Effect of Using Problem Based Chemical Module Assisted by the Quartchem Card on Students Learning Outcomes and Creativity

Following education in the 21st century, students must to having a lot of skills one of them is creativity. Fresh graduates of vocational high school required to have high creativity. Low students creativity being a problem that must be faced by the teacher. This study aims to find the effect of the problem-based chemistry module with the help of Quartchem cards on student learning outcomes and student achievement in chemistry learning on the subject of chemical bonding. Grade X motorcycle engineering which consist of three class used for population of this research. The sampling technique was carried out by cluster random sampling with class X TSM 3 as the experimental class and class X TSM 2 as the control class. Data collection was carried out by three methods, there are documentation method, test method, and observasion sheets method. The test method is used to measure students 'cognitive learning outcomes using the pre-test and post-test question instruments, while the observation sheet method is used to measure students' creativity using the student's creative product observation sheet. The test method is used to measure students 'cognitive learning outcomes using the pre-test and post-test question instruments, while the observation sheet method is used to measure students' creativity using the student's creative product observation sheet. The results showed that the experimental class learning outcomes average was 86.20 and the control class was 81.96 while the average creativity of the experimental class was 84.379 and the control class was 72.3. The results of data analysis with the t-test of the right side for student learning outcomes obtained tcount 2.212 and for creativity obtained tcount 11.94 with t table 1.67 shows that there is an effect of problem-based chemistry modules assisted by Quartchem cards on student learning outcomes and creativity.

Opportunities and Challenges in Developing Distance Education Services Open University for Indonesian Citizens in Malaysia

The Indonesian Open University (UT) has had extensive experience in providing, implementing, and developing educational services in Indonesian and abroad. Several problems related to the planned development of Distance Education Services (PJJ-UT), have become obstacles that hinder the smooth expansion and management of UT abroad. This paper aims to analyze the opportunities and challenges in developing PJJ-UT in Malaysia. The approach used in this study is a qualitative method. The data are collected through participant observation as well as unstructured in-depth interviews involving resources ranging from UT managers, students, and alumni. The results: (1). Many fresh graduates from Senior High School, have departed for Malaysia before the time of receiving their graduation certificate. They are constrained from realizing their intention to continue their study while working; (2). Indonesian illegal migrants who have joined as students, have limited space for movement and are being arrested by Malaysian authorities; (3). Implementation of the mandatory overtime system at workplace, prevented students from participating in examinations; (4). The distance of the student coverage area, resulted in delays in taking academic activities; (5). The dropping out phenomenon among students who are not motivated to study is high, especially after returning to their homeland.

Business Model Strategies to Built A Sustainable Economy for Agrotourism at Coffee Farming in Kopi Warga Study Case: Terminal

Millennial employees had a higher turnover intention is increasing lately and it creates a bigger problem in the job industry, A recent study shows, that most Millennials are assigned to work just to fulfill pressure from their inner circle, so they chose to bury their dreams. The establishment of Terminal is offered to abridged this current problem. Most of the turnover occurs in the company affected by the millennial workforce who feel dissatisfied with their own work, or else the reversed expectation. Terminal will people with an early career stage, currently called as fresh graduates to help them find a perfect career path with the enhanced activities exploration. one of the key activities that will be tested is in Gunung Wayang, this research aims for determining the most critical and important factor impacting the acceptance of the business strategy in Agrotourism in Gunung Wayang towards terminal and execute design to be implemented for Terminal in Agrotourism in Gunung Wayang to help the agrotourism develop better in the future the research method that is used in this study is using Qualitative data analysis, through the use of an observation method such as a case study and semi-structured interview. Finally, data analysis was performed gathered data such as taped video, and audio were analyzed and coded respectively, it was used for data analysis primarily for qualitative research, and triangulation to ensure the validity and reliability of the gathered data. The correlation between the TPB and the semi structured interview that has been conducted is ruled by the positive tendencies which resulted on the both three variables the attitude towards behavior, subjective norm and the perceived behavioral control for the percentage respectively 58.3%75% and 75%. The rest of the result it is dominated by the neutral tendencies which is giving a results in the variable attitude towards behavior for 41.7%, subjective norm 12.5% and the perceived behavioral control 25% and lastly it is the negative tendencies which is resulting on the last position for one votes or 12.5% in the subjective norm variable only according to the research that has been done variables in TPB such as attitude towards behavior and perceived behavioral control give a positive tendencies towards respective subject on determining the most critical and important factor on determining business strategy creation for Terminal. In the following years, it is expected that there will be a comprehensive curriculum and structured timeline in the project execution.

EFEKTIVITAS PROGRAM KARTU PRAKERJA BAGI FRESH GRADUATE DI KOTA MANADO

This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the pre-employment card program for fresh graduates in Manado City. This research was conducted from November 2021 to February 2022. This type of research used descriptive qualitative methods. The results showed that the pre-employment card program did not run effectively and optimally. This is because the program is not running on target, the data verification and control process is not accurate and up to date so that participants who are not actually included in the requirements can pass and receive incentives. In addition, the socialization process by the North Sulawesi Province Manpower and Transmigration Office was not optimal and only relied on socialization from the central Pre-Employment Implementing Team and Management. The tendency of participants is only on incentives. Incentives are only used for daily needs and lead to consumptive behavior. The certificate of training results does not guarantee participants to easily get a job. The training is only in the form of videos and is not given live. The lack of control and supervision affects the level of discipline of the participants. There is no room for interaction and discussion when there are participants who do not understand the training material. The absence of continuous assistance to participants causes this program to not show satisfactory results. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that the pre-employment card program for fresh graduates in Manado City is not running effectively and does not show maximum results. So it is necessary to evaluate and improve management regularly and continuously, starting from the data verification process, socialization, program implementation results, as well as in program monitoring.

Dynamic Process for Enhancing Engineering Faculty Competence in India

Abstract : Indian engineering colleges need more qualified faculty, since, thousands of engineering colleges have been approved by AICTE with teachers who possess only bachelor's degrees without any experience in curriculum design, instructional design, evaluation, and industrial training. Many of them were not exposed to advanced industrial design and advanced manufacturing practices. This has resulted in the unemployment of about 70% of the graduates. This paper focuses on the systematic planning, and implementing appropriate faculty development programs not only for the fresh graduate teachers but also the senior faculty members through various longterm programs, short-term courses, industrial training, research works, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) under SWAYAM, and training through specialized overseas courses that are implemented by Ministry of Education. National Institutes of Technical Teachers Training are offering MOOCs in various areas of engineering education. Continuous process development has been suggested. The engineering colleges could reimburse facultymembers on the cost of training under MOOCs which are offered by edX, COURSERA, etc. Further, the colleges should organize faculty development programs in collaboration with the well-known global universities and Research & Development Centers of Multinational Companies (MNCs) which are functioning here. Such a dynamic initiative will bring excellence in the knowledge capital. The government can assist professional associations to plan industryrelevant workshops. Considering the difficulties in getting admission for thousands of faculty members in Quality Improvement Programs (QIP), alternate, hybrid and flexible programs are suggested. The significant outcomes of these initiatives are: i) It increased the skills and competencies of the faculty members and students; ii) The graduates have become be industry-ready; iii) Many regions have come industrially competitive, iv) The new initiatives like Pandit Madan Mohan Malavia National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) and MOOCs have improved the faculty competencies in hundreds of colleges; v) Global Initiative for Academic Networks (GIAN) have increased interdisciplinary research capability of the faculty members; vi) The overall outcomes of these initiatives have improved the engineering curriculum, attributes of the graduates and interdisciplinary research. It is suggested to undertake further research on the finetuning of the curricula to meet the challenges of Industry-4.0 Keywords: Faculty Competence, Dynamic Process, QIP, Summer Schools, Webinars, MOOCs.

PANDANGAN GENERASI Z MENGENAI PERSONAL BRANDING ONLINE FRESH GRADUATES DALAM MENCARI PEKERJAAN

Intense competition between workers to reach a position requires fresh graduates including Generation Z to display their achievements and something unique. Personal branding is something that recruiters consider to recruit. Currently, personal branding is not only seen by recruiters from the Curriculum Vitae (CV) and cover letters sent by applicants, or through interviews, but has also begun to penetrate into tracking applicants' social media. This study aims to find out how Generation Z views online personal branding for themselves and their generation and to find out Generation Z's views on the benefits of online personal branding for themselves for their careers. Researchers used descriptive qualitative methods to obtain comprehensive data. A total of 11 sources of fresh graduates of Generation Z, representing several regions in Indonesia, participated in the Focus Group Discussion (FGD). The personal branding criteria applied in this research are 11 criteria by Hubert K. Rampersard. The results showed that all respondents agreed that online personal branding was very important both for their own needs and in terms of looking for work. In addition, what is displayed on social media should be authentic, describe specialization or uniqueness and advantages and of course what is displayed is useful.

Menggali Makna Akuntansi Perspektif Fresh Graduate Program Studi Akuntansi

This article explores the meaning of accounting from a fresh graduate perspective. Through an interpretive approach with a transcendental phenomenological method, forms of social experience from the point of view of the informant who experienced it directly were explored more deeply through in-depth interviews. Three informants, namely accounting alumni, have just graduated and already have work experience. The phenomenological method emphasizes the meaning that arises from the individual conscious experience. The stages of the data analysis technique begin with identifying the noema or textual analysis. Next, the researcher did bracketing or structural analysis based on noema identification. This stage is carried out as a level of deep meaning (noesis). The relationship between noema and noesis provides an understanding of how noesis forms noema, which is called intentional analysis. Finally, the researcher will get to the idea that underlies all pure consciousness called eidetic reduction. This study concludes that there are three different understandings of accounting. Namely, accounting is magic, accounting is complicated, and accounting is balanced.

Awareness And Knowledge Of MRI Safety Among Radiological Students, Interns, Fresh Graduates And Trainees

Background — Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a safe imaging technique that provides superior soft tissue contrast compared to other radiological imaging modalities. The main objective of this study was to measure awareness and knowledge of radiology students, interns, new graduates, and trainees regarding the safety of MRI. Material and Methods— To measure awareness and knowledge of the safety of MRI use, data was collected using a questionnaire from 166 subjects (age: 20-60 years) from August to September 2020 at Najran University and all hospitals and dispensaries in Najran region. Results — A total of 166 participants (45.2% male and 54.8% female) were included in the study. The participants were students (44%) from multiple levels (level 3-9), interns (17%), new graduates (19%), and trainees (20%). Our results showed that MRI is a safe method of evaluation and is superior to other tests in terms of safety and accuracy. Pregnant women can do the MRI scan after the end of the first 3 months. Conclusion — The MRI scan is safe but it has some risks that must be considered. There are different levels of knowledge and awareness regarding the safety of MRI use among the students, interns, fresh graduates, and trainees from all hospitals.

A Surveillance on Average Annual Income for Fresh Graduates of Nutritionists & Dietitians (Degree Holders) in Malaysia Community Pharmacy 2022

A Surveillance on Average Annual Income for Fresh Graduates of Nutritionists & Dietitians (Degree Holders) in Malaysia Community Pharmacy 2022

Making Housing Affordable Through Solar Energy: A Proposal for Malaysia

Globally, housing affordability is becoming an increasing concern, particularly to the low and middle-income group. Housing prices have been steadily growing over the years, thereby make it even more burdensome, particularly for fresh graduates and low-income earners (B40), to own a home. The constant price increase is mainly due to inflation in the property sector brought about by the very nature of the modern monetary system, particularly the fractional reserve banking and compound interest charges, leading to housing and property bubbles. Accordingly, governments have generally failed in successfully solving the housing problem. In this regard, this paper provides an affordable housing solution through solar energy harvesting combined with Islamic financing provisions for the case of Malaysia. In our proposed model, housing can be provided in a very affordable manner regardless of the credit-worthiness of buyers with the possibility of free-energy at the end of the tenure.

Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Community Development: Implication for Graduate's Students in SPACE

Lifelong learning refers to activities that people from all walks of life engage in throughout their lives in order to improve their knowledge, skills, values, and competence in a certain sector, for personal, societal, or employment-related reasons, especially now that economies rely on knowledge. In the current pandemic situation, the world is undergoing rapid transformations, making sustainable community development of great importance. In ensuring sustainable community development, lifelong learning provides abundant opportunities [1,5,7-8,10]. In light of this importance of lifelong learning towards sustainable community development, SPACE (School for Professional and Further Education) under Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) was established in 1992, and later launched in 1993. This School acts as a specialised centre for the implementation of lifelong learning programmes at the university level. After almost three decades of its establishment, this study is deemed important as it aims to investigate lifelong learning for sustainable community development among fresh graduate students at SPACE. This study aims to investigate lifelong learning for sustainable community development among graduate students at SPACE. Hence, the study ascertained the following: economic contributions of lifelong learning, perception in utilization of lifelong learning approach in re-skilling and upskilling the graduates during this current pandemic situation and factors that inhibit lifelong learning in Malaysia. Keywords: Lifelong learning, upskilling, reskilling, economic development, community development

The Antibiotic Prescription Trend of Dentists for Endodontic Treatment from a Region of Pakistan: An Online Survey.

Purpose: Globally the overuse of systemic antibiotics is now a serious concern for the health professionals. The increase in antimicrobial resistant bacteria because of this practice has made treatment of infections ever more difficult. In providing endodontic treatment it has been found that many dentists are either misusing or overusing systemic antibiotics. The objective of this study was to assess the antibiotic prescribing trends of dentists in a region of Pakistan and if any association could be made of such practices with the experience of the dentist.
 Methodology: This cross sectional study was based on an on line questionnaire. A total of 150 invitation were sent by emails and social media groups like ’Whattsapp’. This estimation of respondents was made by calculating the total fresh graduates and clinical dental faculty of the three dental institute of the region. The online survey was designed on the checklist based on Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-surveys (CHERRIES). SPSS version 20 was used to analyze the data. Chi square test was used with p- value< 0-05.
 Results: There was an 84% response rate on this online questionnaire. Most of the participants (71.5%) were aware of guidelines for antibiotic use. Only 12.30% participants as a whole had attended a seminar or workshop in the last one year on recent guidelines for antibiotic prescription. Of the total, 42.30% of the respondents were prescribing antibiotics to 2-3 patients on a daily basis. Majority of the respondents (63.84%) would prefer penicillin’s as the first choice of antibiotic if needed. But 62.7% of the fresh graduates would advise systemic antibiotics in a case of endodontic flare up where there is no recommendation or justification. With 44.7% dental practitioners’ prescribing antibiotics in the same scenario it was statistically significant (p=0.0480).
 Recommendations: Globally, the overuse of antibiotics is a trend which is concerning, here in the region of Abbottabad, Pakistan this same trend is present. Dental health care providers must understand that prescription of systemic antibiotics when not recommended may lead to antimicrobial resistance, whereas non-prescription when necessary may have detrimental health consequences. So the practitioners’ knowledge of guidelines is irrelevant as long as they are not practicing it. Hence the rationale for not practicing on the guidelines is what needs to be further investigated in future studies.

Automated Assessment in Computer Science Education: A State-of-the-Art Review

Practical programming competencies are critical to the success in computer science (CS) education and go-to-market of fresh graduates. Acquiring the required level of skills is a long journey of discovery, trial and error, and optimization seeking through a broad range of programming activities that learners must perform themselves. It is not reasonable to consider that teachers could evaluate all attempts that the average learner should develop multiplied by the number of students enrolled in a course, much less in a timely, deep, and fair fashion. Unsurprisingly, exploring the formal structure of programs to automate the assessment of certain features has long been a hot topic among CS education practitioners. Assessing a program is considerably more complex than asserting its functional correctness, as the proliferation of tools and techniques in the literature over the past decades indicates. Program efficiency, behavior, and readability, among many other features, assessed either statically or dynamically, are now also relevant for automatic evaluation. The outcome of an evaluation evolved from the primordial Boolean values to information about errors and tips on how to advance, possibly taking into account similar solutions. This work surveys the state of the art in the automated assessment of CS assignments, focusing on the supported types of exercises, security measures adopted, testing techniques used, type of feedback produced, and the information they offer the teacher to understand and optimize learning. A new era of automated assessment, capitalizing on static analysis techniques and containerization, has been identified. Furthermore, this review presents several other findings from the conducted review, discusses the current challenges of the field, and proposes some future research directions.

Researching Graduated Cyber Security Students – Reflecting Employment and Job Responsibilities through NICE framework

Most research and development on Cyber Security education is currently focusing on what should be taught, how much, and where within the degree programmes. Different Cyber Security frameworks are currently evolving to include Cyber Security education parallel to older paradigms of Computing Education, existing alongside with such as “Information Technology” and “Software Engineering”. Different Cyber Security specialisations or even whole degree programmes have started within universities before the frameworks have been defined into standardised degree structures. This is mainly the result of a dire industry need of well-educated cyber security personnel, a phenomenon affecting the industry globally.
 Our research concentrates on Finnish alumni students who have already graduated from a bachelor’s degree programme in Information Technology with a specialisation in Cyber Security in Finland. Within our gathered research data, we analysed what is the industry sector where their current job resides, and what are the cyber security responsibilities in their current work. The questionnaire also contained an after-reflection section where the graduated students could choose what they would study were they about to start and plan their studies again.
 The results verify that Cyber Security is still the most favoured specialisation within the former Cyber Security alumni students. Slight variation is evident from the data, which in the authors’ perspective, verifies the multifaceted nature of Cyber Security. When analysing alumni students’ job responsibilities, the main category of work resides in the “Protect and Defend” category of the NICE Framework, which in the terms of the conference, relates to Critical Infrastructure Protection being the main subject of employment for fresh graduates.
 These results give insight to other education organisations on how to develop their curricula to further emphasise the employment of students or to offer modules which are of interest for newly employed Cyber Security professionals. In addition, it gives an insight of industry demand for freshly graduated students within the target group.