Jana Žnidaršič; Nada Zupan, University of Ljubljana
Employers consider soft skills, especially ability to communicate, as an important competence, which affects employability and performance at work. At the same time they claim that these skills are in...
Abdullatif A. AlMunifi; Arwa Y. Aleryani, Sana'a University; Saba University
The Civil Engineering Program at Sana'a University, Yemen aims to provide quality education that develops students’ knowledge, skills and aspirations in preparation for a career, nationally and regi...
Robert Joseph Gill, Swinburne University of Technology
Employability has become an important focus for graduates and employers in Australia, as many universities contend with the notion of developing knowledgeable and problem-solving graduates who are wor...
LAM Siew Hong; Alex IP Yuen Kwong, National University of Singapore
Generic skills are transferable skills across disciplines, essential for lifelong learning and are applicable in multiple settings. Graduates with such skills are perceived as being more employable an...
Edith Onowe Odia; Benedicta Okaima Imasuen, University of Benin
In view of deteriorating quality of graduates from Nigerian tertiary institutions, this study sought to determine employers’ assessment of management science graduates on key employability skills. T...
Lucía I. Llinares-Insa; Pilar González-Navarro; Juan J. Zacarés-González; Ana I. Córdoba-Iñesta, University of Valencia
Employability is an important issue in the labor context. Currently, the European Union presents employability as the path to full employment and active citizenship, and a strategy to reduce unemploym...
Louise Walsh, University of Cambridge
Almost half of young people in the UK now go to university. Who gets in – and what and where they study – affects a person’s place in society and their future earnings, as well as the skills ava...
Daniela Yordanova, University of Ruse “Angel Kanchev”
Employability of graduating students is a main precondition for successful university to work transition. Discrepancies on the labour market in terms of demand and supply of highly qualified specialis...
Vasile Alecsandru Strat; Laura Trofin; Irina Lonean, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Using Prospective Evaluation Synthesis (PES) - a theory based evaluation method - and spatial distribution analysis of the young NEETs population in correlation with demographic and economic indicator...
Juan-Francisco Martínez-Cerdá; Joan Torrent-Sellens; Inés González-González; Pilar Ficapal-Cusí, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Human beings must develop many skills to cope with the large amount of challenges that currently exist in the world: media empowerment for an active and democratic citizenship, knowledge acquisition a...
Hannu Räty; Katri Komulainen; Carita Harvorsén; Anna Nieminen; Maija Korhonen, University of Eastern Finland
This study sets out to investigate the university students’ perceptions of their current and expected ‘ability selves’ and the contribution of such perceptions to students’ views of their own ...
Nuala Whelan; Sinéad McGilloway; Mary P. Murphy; Colm McGuinness, Maynooth University; Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
Background Labour market policy (LMP) and its implementation have undergone rapid change internationally in the last three decades with a continued trend towards active LMP. In Ireland however, this s...
