Fresh Graduates Research Articles

Academic Curriculum and Labor Market Mismatch: A Study on University Graduates in Bangladesh

The undergraduate program is a major steppingstone to build a career. After getting tertiary education, large number of graduates remain unemployed for a prolonged period. Studies have indicated the presence of a mismatch between the curriculum and job market requirements. This study tries to explore the gap from fresh graduates’ perspective, who are the sufferers. Their perception regarding the current tertiary education curriculum and expectations about it may help address the issues and redesign the curriculum. Graduates from Business Administration, Science and Engineering, Arts and Social Sciences, Medical and Dental studies were interviewed on a range of questions about their respective curriculums, job market scenario, prospective skills and others. This study follows qualitative norms to find the results and presents it in descriptive manner. The results show increased preference of changing and reforming the current university curriculum for the convenience of getting a job. From their experience in the labor market, graduates have expressed lower level of satisfaction about current curriculum and do feel the necessity of new skills to find a job. Most of the graduates prefer shifting their field of higher studies and job due to lack of relevant employment opportunities. This study argues that, OBE and blended learning should be implemented in higher education institutes to meet the challenges of Industry 4.0.

Employability Skills Influencing Quantity Surveying Graduates’ Gainful Employment

Basic/core competencies alone rarely translate into gainful employment for fresh graduates in today’s highly competitive labour market. Accordingly, assessing employability skills desired in addition to basic/core competencies by employers of fresh graduates, has become the focus of researchers and education authorities of disciplines/majors. This study assessed the most influential employability skills for gainful employment of graduate Quantity Surveyors (QS). A questionnaire was self-administered to a sample of 108 QS consultancy firms. Statistical analysis was conducted using Pearson correlation and multiple regression. Results revealed industry interaction, self-motivation skills and entrepreneurial skills with respective standardized coefficient of 0.406, 0.341 and 0.215 to be employability skills most influential in addition to basic/core competencies, for gainful employment of QS graduates. As previous attempts to improve employability of QS graduates focused largely on basic/core competencies only, this finding present QS education authorities with most important skills to consolidate on other than core competencies in order to ensure QS graduates are gainfully employable. From a practical perspective, the study’s findings can be used by quantity surveying education authorities as a basis to further consolidate their teaching plans and ensure fresh quantity surveying graduates are fully work ready and gainfully employable.

Quality Assurance Agenda in Nepali TVET System

Quality assurance in the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is a concept that is concerned with high performance in entire academic process involving the activities, such as teaching, learning, infrastructure, and students’ behavior. Good quality education is imperative in the holistic development of the student, which ensures proper development, job prospects and the realization of academic goals and objectives. There are varied factors working against the realization of quality TVET. In a competitive labor market, the quality and relevancy of program offering must be of paramount interest to all technical and vocational institutions. Accredited institutions, qualified teachers and practical partnerships between public and private actors will have an increasingly important role to play in the delivery of TVET programs so that the fresh graduates from the institutions of TEVT must be world class and the education quality of global standards. Effective quality assurance policy helps to support the development and maintenance of a good TVET system. This paper attempts to clarify the concept of quality assurance in TVET by discussing various approaches employed in it. It presents examples of best practices in quality assurance based on the secondary data, observation, study, and experiences; outlines and discusses the relevancy, gap and need in Nepal’s TEVT system to meet the requirements of competent and competitive human resources for the world of work.

The Attitude and Perception of Dental and Medical Interns Toward Dental Smile Enhancing Treatments

Background: Perception of beauty is different from one individual to another, and this may influence their desire for aesthetic treatment. There are many studies that compared dentists to the general population’s perception of smile treatments. However, only a few studies were carried out to compare the perception of fresh graduate dentists with a comparable group of another medical medical background. Objective: This study aimed to compare how medical and dental interns perceive dental smiles and how much they ask for dental enhancement treatments. Methods: A cross-sectional study targeting dental and medical interns in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia using an online survey. An online questionnaire was formulated and distributed through social media. Comparisons between groups were made using the Chi-square test with a p-value of significance kept under 0.05. Results: 204 participants responded to the survey, 107 dental and 97 medical interns (52.5%, 47.5%), respectively. When the participants were asked to rate their satisfaction with their smiles, almost 60% of the dental interns rated their smiles 8/10 or more on a scale of (1-10). When they were asked about the cause of the dissatisfaction, their responses were varying. About 84% of dental interns reported having complications of varying sources because of the smile-enhancing treatment, compared to only 50% of the medical interns. Conclusion: Dental and medical interns interacted in the same manner toward smile-enhancing treatments. Dental interns seem to show more satisfaction with their smiles. They also showed more ability to spot and identify the harmful effects of those procedures.

Komunikasi Interpersonal Dengan Job Search Behavior

This study was intended to prove the relationship between interpersonal communication and job-seeking behaviour for undergraduate students with fresh graduate status. The hypothesis proposed is that there is a positive relationship between interpersonal communication and job-seeking behavior for undergraduate students with new graduate status.The population of this research is job seekers who are fresh graduates from Bachelor of Strata 1 (S1) who are graduates from several universities in Jombang city region. The number of samples in this study consisted of 31 individuals. The sampling technique used is random sampling.The independent variable in this study is interpersonal communication which is expressed by a scale, while the dependent variable is job search behavior which is expressed by a scale, which is then analyzed using the SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) program. Data analysis utilized Pearson's product moment correlation analysis.The results of the analysis showed that the significance value of the correlation between interpersonal communication and job search behavior was rxy = 0.238 with a significance of 0.098 (one-tailed). The value is above 0.05, which means there is no relationship between interpersonal communication and job-seeking behaviour.This demonstrates that the hypothesis suggested in this study is rejected. 
 
 Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Job Seeking Behavior.

Richard Edwin Hills. 30 September 1945—5 June 2022

Richard Hills was a pioneering, world-leading millimetre astronomer. As fresh graduate students, he and Michael Janssen built the world’s first millimetre interferometer. His research was characterized by the full range of experimental, observational and theoretical activities as the telescopes became more powerful and the scientific opportunities broadened out. The highlights of his contributions include his key roles as project scientist for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, still the world’s largest single dish for submillimetre astronomy, and for the ALMA millimetre/submillimetre array in Chile. His career spanned the evolution of millimetre astronomy from the ‘Wild West’ of the 1960s to the sophisticated aperture synthesis ALMA array which is revolutionizing our understanding of star and planet formation and the astrophysics of the distant Universe of galaxies.

Industrial needs v. Engineering education curricula related to maintenance, production and quality in industry 4.0: A gap analysis case study in Tunisia and Morocco

To improve the competitiveness of industry in Tunisia and Morocco, local authorities have adopted strategies to support industrial companies in modernizing their value-adding infrastructures. A sustained effort has been dedicated to encouraging industrial organizations to embrace the Industry 4.0 paradigm and technologies. Despite these continued efforts, engaging with Industry 4.0 is still difficult in countries like Tunisia and Morocco, particularly because industrial organizations struggle to find fresh graduates on the job market who are both skilled and qualified in Industry 4.0 operations. The contribution of this article is to initiate a process to better understand and assess the gap between industrial needs and academic offer with respect to Industry 4.0 skills and qualifications, considering the specificities of Tunisia and Morocco. We particularly focus on analyzing to what extent existing curricula in engineering education institutions satisfy or miss industrial needs and requirements in three core industrial business processes: maintenance, production, and quality (MPQ4.0). Therefore, a survey was conducted, from which a set of MPQ4.0 targeted skills and competencies were extracted and synthesized. Based on these skills and competencies, sample engineering education curricula are analyzed, gaps are identified, and recommendations for improvement are offered.

Prilaku Pencarian Informasi Pekerjaan oleh Masyarakat dengan Analisis Model Wilson

Introduction This paper discusses people's information seeking behavior. In fact, many university graduates are still facing serious difficulties in the job search process given the increasing unemployment rate.Method of collecting data Purposive sampling was used with 10 respondents. Interviews were used as a data collection technique.Data analysis Miles and Huberman's data analysis was used in this study to reduce, present data and draw conclusions.Results and Discussion Two barriers in seeking information come from psychological factors and interpersonal skills. Fresh graduates with low psychological and interpersonal skills, such as lack of confidence, confusion, low self-esteem, anxiety, lack of communication show ineffective search results. Situations where information sources are easily accessible support faster information retrieval and vice versa. Our informants who live in cities with easy access support the information search process.Conclusion The factors that influence information seeking behavior are psychological situation, demographic situation, interpersonal skills, environment and characteristics of information sources. These five factors influence each other.
 Keywords: information behavior; information search; publik; job seekers

Career Self-Efficacy and Future Career Anxiety on Indonesian Fresh Graduates During Pandemic

Abstract: The uncertain job vacancy presents substantial influence on job seekers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The anxiety concerning their future career emerges as a new and deteriorating issue for fresh graduates. On the other hand, self-efficacy serves as a crucial element in facing a shift in the situation. The self-efficacy being adopted in overcoming career anxiety is known as career self-efficacy. Therefore, this study aims to identify the correlation between career self-efficacy and future career anxiety in Indonesian fresh graduate. This study used a quantitative method with a correlational study approach. For the research sample, the final-year students participated in this study and were selected using random sampling. The data were collected through Career Self-Efficacy and Future Career Anxiety instruments and analyzed using data product moment analysis. Our results suggested a negative correlation between career self-efficacy and future career anxiety. Therefore, someone with higher self-efficacy presents a low rate of future career anxiety. Abstrak:Kondisi tidak menentu terkait lapangan pekerjaan menjadi salah satu hal yang berdampak pada pencari kerja sebagai akibat pandemi COVID-19. Kecemasan terhadap karier di masa depan tampaknya menjadi masalah baru dan semakin memburuk pada fresh graduate. Di sisi lain, self-efficacy merupakan hal penting dalam menghadapi perubahan, termasuk kecemasan karier, dalam hal ini disebut dengan career self-efficacy. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara career self-efficacy dengan future career anxiety pada fresh graduate di Indonesia. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode kuantitatif dengan menggunakan studi korelasional. Sampel penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa tingkat akhir dengan teknik penarikan sampel menggunakan random sampling. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah career self-efficacy dan future career anxiety dan menggunakan teknik analisis data product moment. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa ada hubungan negatif antara career self-efficacy dengan future career anxiety. Dengan demikian, semakin tinggi career self-efficacy seseorang, semakin rendah tingkat future career anxiety yang dialaminya.

Born Not Made: The Impact of Six Entrepreneurial Personality Dimensions on Entrepreneurial Intention: Evidence from Healthcare Higher Education Students

Background: The KSA government has envisioned a national transformation plan via Vision 2030. The purpose of this plan is liberalization which provides an opportunity for the private sector to increase its share in the healthcare system. Evaluating the entrepreneurial potential of healthcare students is essential due to their future role in the healthcare environment. Thus, the goal of the current study is to measure entrepreneurial intentions and identify the characteristics and personality dimensions among junior healthcare students and fresh graduates in Saudi Arabia. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study design was utilized to survey healthcare students in their final years of study and fresh graduates at King Faisal University (KFU), Saudi Arabia. The research team identified six as the most common entrepreneurial intention traits. Entrepreneurial traits included internal locus of control, innovativeness, risk-taking, proactiveness, autonomy, and problem-solving. A previously recognized and validated questionnaire was distributed through social media platforms and formal university emails. PLS-SEM was employed for the examination of both the measurement and structural models. Results: Internal locus of control was found to have a positive impact on entrepreneurial intention, so H1 was supported. Likewise, innovativeness showed a positive impact on entrepreneurial intention among healthcare students, which confirmed H2. The results also showed that autonomy substantially impacted entrepreneurial intention, so H3 was supported. Similarly, proactiveness has a direct influence on entrepreneurial intention; thus, H5 was supported. Furthermore, problem-solving personality dimensions also had a positive impact on entrepreneurial intention, so H5 and H6 were supported. Conversely, risk-taking propensity exhibited a negative insignificant effect on entrepreneurial intention. Thus, H4 was not supported. Conclusions: Saudi healthcare students revealed their intention towards entrepreneurship and were quite positive about becoming entrepreneurs. Furthermore, students’ entrepreneurial intention was affected by their quality of proactiveness, innovativeness, internal locus of control, problem-solving, and autonomy but not risk-taking propensity.

Corporate social responsibility, corporate reputation and intention to apply for a job: evidence from students in an emerging economy

PurposeHigh-quality workforce is the most important source for competitive advantage, and thus all organizations attempt to attract and recruit young talents. This study aims to examine the relationships between corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate reputation and intention to apply for a job in young individuals.Design/methodology/approachFor empirical analysis, this study uses data collected from final-year students and fresh graduates in a developing city. This study uses structural equation modelling (SEM) to test the research model.FindingsCSR is found to be positively and directly associated with intention to apply for a job. CSR is also positively and indirectly associated with intention to apply through the mediation of corporate reputation.Practical implicationsThis study underscores the importance of CSR practices in enhancing corporate reputation and attracting talented young candidates. Accordingly, organizations can gain their competitive edge in a highly competitive environment.Social implicationsThis study suggests that organizations should be more concerned about CSR practices for the sake of corporate reputation as well as community development.Originality/valueThis study is among the early attempts to examine the direct and indirect relationships between CSR, corporate reputation and intention to apply for a job in a developing city. The findings add to the growing literature suggesting that CSR may help organizations achieve competitive advantage regarding the attraction of prospective young talents.

Membangun inovasi organisasi antara kepemimpinan transformasional dan kompetensi kepemimpinan di situasi pandemi pada grandmas airport

This study took the object of tourism employees at Grandmas Airport. The findings are that it is difficult for companies to innovate when hotel operations are running in a COVID-19 pandemic. The leadership factor (leadership style) is a type of leadership that needs to be improved, which affects leadership competence is the education factor that has not been evenly distributed so that it hinders organizational innovation considering that there are still many fresh graduates. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of transformational leadership and leadership competence in building organizational innovation in the COVID-19 pandemic situation. 19 at Grandmas Plus Hotel Airport. This study uses a quantitative method with a total population of all hotel employees with a sample of 35 employees determined by the saturated sampling method or census. Sources of research data from monthly reports and data collection techniques by observation, interviews and distributing questionnaires. For technical analysis using multiple linear regression in accordance with the steps of Sugiyono, 2015: 348 with SPSS windows version 25 application tools. Meanwhile for instrument testing using validity and reliability tests, as well as hypothesis testing using f test and t test. The results of this study are the transformational leadership variable has a positive relationship on organizational innovation, the leadership competence variable has a positive relationship on organizational innovation and the transformational leadership variable and leadership competence have a simultaneous effect on organizational innovation with a significant value.

Opportunities or Threats? The Role of Entrepreneurial Risk Perception in Shaping the Entrepreneurial Motivation

Entrepreneurial risk is an important factor that individuals must consider when starting their own business. The COVID-19 continues to rage, bringing great challenges to China’s economy and entrepreneurial activities. In this study, college students encounter greater entrepreneurial risks. There are two opposing views on the role of entrepreneurial risk in shaping individual entrepreneurial motivation: one view that risk is a threat, and the other view that entrepreneurial risk contains opportunity. Existing studies have discussed the issues from individual factors and environment factors, respectively, ignoring the combined effects of individual and environment factors. Person–situation transactions theory points out that individuals usually make their final behavior choices based on their comprehensive evaluation of environmental factors and themselves. Therefore, individual and environment factors should be integrated to investigate the effect of entrepreneurial risk on entrepreneurial motivation. Based on the person–situation transactions theory, this study establishes a theoretical model that entrepreneurial risk perception influences necessity and opportunity entrepreneurial motivation through entrepreneurial self-efficacy and discusses the moderating effect of entrepreneurship policy. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 595 fresh graduates from eight universities in China to obtain relevant data and the Structural Equation modelling was established to test the hypothesis. The results confirm that without the influence of external factors, college students regard entrepreneurial risk as a great threat, which not only weakens their entrepreneurial self-efficacy, but also reduces their necessity and opportunity entrepreneurial motivation. However, with the support of good entrepreneurial policies, entrepreneurial risk can be transformed into an opportunity to improve the entrepreneurs motivation driven by necessity of college students, but the impact on the opportunity motivation is not significant. This study deeply analyzes the dual characteristics of entrepreneurial risk perception in the process of shaping individual entrepreneurial motivation, expands the related research on entrepreneurial risk perception and entrepreneurial motivation, and has important implications for the government and universities to formulate entrepreneurial policies for college students.

Public Health Proficiency, Social Responsibility, and Applied Learning of Medical Students and Fresh Graduates: A Cross-Sectional Study

• Background: The relevance of public health proficiency, social responsibility, and applied learning about the subject, particularly concerning treating, preventing, and managing chronic illness, has increased globally. • Objective: The objective of the current study was to assess the public health proficiency, social responsibility, and applied learning of medical students and Fresh Graduates. • Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 300 medical students and house officers at a private teaching hospital in Rawalpindi from July to December 2022, selected via convenience sampling technique. A pre-validated questionnaire was used to assess public health proficiency, social responsibility, and applied learning among study participants. • Results: Out of the total (n = 300) participants, 234 (78%) were medical students, 66 (22%) were house officers, and the majority were female, with 192 (64%) among student respondents. 53 (18%) of the respondents had adequate scores regarding PH proficiency, social responsibility, and applied learning, while 247 (82%) had poor scores. The majority had poor public health proficiency. An independent t-test shows no statistically significant differences between the group scores (p = 0.333). A chi-squared analysis was used to determine the relationship between PH proficiency, a personal or family history of NCDs, and a family member working in the public health domain; the results revealed insignificant differences between these variables and proficiency scores. • Conclusion: The study has shown that a significant number of medical students and graduates do not have much knowledge about public health skills, social responsibility, and applied learning about the subject.

Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Psychological Distress among Fresh Graduates during COVID-19 Pandemic in Zhejiang, China: The Mediating Role of Coping

Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Psychological Distress among Fresh Graduates during COVID-19 Pandemic in Zhejiang, China: The Mediating Role of Coping

The Effect Of Internship Quality Toward Self-Perceived Employability Through The Mediation of Career-Entry Worries For Final Year Student at Universitas Indonesia

Abstract. Competition in the world of work is getting tougher over time which triggers a sense of worry and lack of confidence to enter the world of work for young people who do not have work experience, particularly fresh graduates. It is theorized in this paper that, by participating in internship, students can increase their self-perceived employability, thereby reducing their career-entry worries. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of internship quality on self-perceived employability through the mediation of reduced career-entry worries for final year students at Universitas Indonesia. This study administered online surveys (with 209 respondents) and in-depth interviews (with 3 source persons). The results show that internship quality has a positive influence on self-perceived employability and reduced career-entry worries. Further, self-perceived employability also positively affects reduced career-entry worries and reduced career-entry worries mediate the effect between internship quality and self -perceived employability. This study recommends that universities in Indonesia can implement a compulsory internship program for its students equally.

A Simulation Environment for enhancing the student experience in advanced networking concepts

Several subjects in Computer science necessitate practical and realistic classes in addition to supporting the theoretical underpinning taught to the students. In various subjects’ practical exposure & skill is imperative to meet the industry requirements. However, educational establishments can't provide an out-and-out environment for every student to practice. Providing an appropriate Lab for apprentices that bestows desired exposure and feel of a real Network has been a challenging task for every educational establishment. Virtual Labs have been a major milestone and are effectively implemented in numerous colleges and universities throughout the world. In this article, the author is providing a complete setup and functionality of Implementing Virtual Private Networks using virtual Labs to reflect a more realistic and appropriate Networking environment for instructional and educational purposes. Fresh graduates or Diploma holders rarely have practical exposure and experience in deploying and implementing VPNs. Establishing a Virtual Private Network is a cumbersome job, and lack of practical exposure makes it even difficult for a fresher to establish one exclusively for the employer. The Author is providinga guideline for the users so that they can establish Virtual Private Networks using virtual machines. Hencepresenting an environment wherein students can have numerous deployments of VPNs with different features. The students gain the required exposure and develop an understanding of Virtual Private Networks meticulously and pragmatically.

A Study on the Phenomenon of “Delayed Employment” among Fresh Graduates of University in Shaoxing

A Study on the Phenomenon of “Delayed Employment” among Fresh Graduates of University in Shaoxing

Self-Control and Job-Seeking Behaviors among Nepalese Fresh Graduates

Self-Control and Job-Seeking Behaviors among Nepalese Fresh Graduates

The Effective Path of Precise Employment Support for College Graduates—Taking a Fresh Graduate of Accounting and Finance as an Example

The Effective Path of Precise Employment Support for College Graduates—Taking a Fresh Graduate of Accounting and Finance as an Example