Development of employability skills assessment tool for manufacturing industry
Mastering employability skills is one of the global problems which employers are facing with graduates or their future employees. Various research on employability skills have been conducted nationally and internationally and it was found that many technical graduates nowadays are lack of employabil...
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| author | Rasul, Mohamad Sattar Ismail, Mohd. Yusof Ismail, Napsiah Rajuddin, Muhammad Rashid Abd. Rauf, Rose Amnah |
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| description | Mastering employability skills is one of the global problems which employers are facing with graduates or their future employees. Various research on employability skills have been conducted nationally and internationally and it was found that many technical graduates nowadays are lack of employability skills rather than technical skills. The main goal of this research is to develop an employability skill assessment tool using the Kepner-Tregoe (K-T) method in which weight factor is set. Samples for this research consisted of 107 employers from five types of Malaysian manufacturing industry. The results showed that employers in all five categories of manufacturing industry are in consensus on the importance for all seven of the employability skills. These skills were ranked as follows; interpersonal skills, thinking skills, personal qualities/values, resource skills, system and technology skills, basic skills and informational skills. From these means, an employability skills assessment tool was developed using the K-T Method and an Employability Skills Assessment Tool Development Model was produced |
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| spelling | utm-70412010-11-26T01:11:10Z http://eprints.utm.my/7041/ Development of employability skills assessment tool for manufacturing industry Rasul, Mohamad Sattar Ismail, Mohd. Yusof Ismail, Napsiah Rajuddin, Muhammad Rashid Abd. Rauf, Rose Amnah TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Mastering employability skills is one of the global problems which employers are facing with graduates or their future employees. Various research on employability skills have been conducted nationally and internationally and it was found that many technical graduates nowadays are lack of employability skills rather than technical skills. The main goal of this research is to develop an employability skill assessment tool using the Kepner-Tregoe (K-T) method in which weight factor is set. Samples for this research consisted of 107 employers from five types of Malaysian manufacturing industry. The results showed that employers in all five categories of manufacturing industry are in consensus on the importance for all seven of the employability skills. These skills were ranked as follows; interpersonal skills, thinking skills, personal qualities/values, resource skills, system and technology skills, basic skills and informational skills. From these means, an employability skills assessment tool was developed using the K-T Method and an Employability Skills Assessment Tool Development Model was produced Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 2010-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/7041/1/MuhammadRashidRajuddin2010_DevelopmentofEmployabilitySkills.pdf Rasul, Mohamad Sattar and Ismail, Mohd. Yusof and Ismail, Napsiah and Rajuddin, Muhammad Rashid and Abd. Rauf, Rose Amnah (2010) Development of employability skills assessment tool for manufacturing industry. Jurnal Mekanikal : An International Journal (30). pp. 48-61. ISSN 0127-3396 http://jurnalmekanikal.fkm.utm.my/UserFiles/file/employability-sattar_Jld30-Jun2010_48-61.pdf |
| spellingShingle | TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Rasul, Mohamad Sattar Ismail, Mohd. Yusof Ismail, Napsiah Rajuddin, Muhammad Rashid Abd. Rauf, Rose Amnah Development of employability skills assessment tool for manufacturing industry |
| title | Development of employability skills assessment tool for manufacturing industry
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| title_full | Development of employability skills assessment tool for manufacturing industry
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| title_fullStr | Development of employability skills assessment tool for manufacturing industry
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| title_full_unstemmed | Development of employability skills assessment tool for manufacturing industry
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| title_short | Development of employability skills assessment tool for manufacturing industry
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| title_sort | development of employability skills assessment tool for manufacturing industry |
| topic | TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery |
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