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FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE

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LEARNING SKILLS FOR OPEN DISTANCE LEARNERS
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IMPORTANT SKILLS THAT EMPLOYERS ARE LOOKING FOR
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PUSAT PEMBELAJARAN

PERAK LEARNING CENTRE

January 2012 Semester

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Table of Content
1.0 Introduction

2.0 Definition of terms used

2.1 Graduate

2.2 Employers

2.3 Skills
2.3.1

Hard Skill

2.3.2

Solf Skill

3.0 Literature Review

4.0 Findings
4.1 Communication Skills

5-6

4.2 Teamwork Skills

6-7

4.3 Computing and Office Skill

4.4 Critical Thinking Skills

4.5 Time Management Skills

5.0 Recommendation
5.1 Future Graduates Malaysia

10-11

5.2 Government Bodies Malaysia

11-12

5.3 Education institution Malaysia

5.31 Primary School

12-13

5.32 Secondary School

13

5.33 Higher Education Institutes

13-14

6.0 Conclusion

15-16

7.0 Reference

17-18

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1.0 Introduction
Every year, a large numbers of graduates emerging from the local universities, private or public
higher institutions. However, numerous articles have been written in the education journals, and
newspapers over the past years about the issue of high unemployment rates among local
graduates.

According to the New Sunday Times (2008) indicated that A qualification which

focuses solely on academic skills is just not attractive enough to todays employers. Employers
would like the graduates who have good academic as well as rounded qualifications.
According Nurita, Shaharudin and Ainon(2004), more employers in Malaysia are looking for
graduates who are balanced with good academic achievement and possessing soft skill such as
problem solving, communication skills, interpersonal skills, and the ability to be flexible. The
statistics provided by The Sun newspaper in 2006 reported that the unemployment rates of the
private colleges recorded 26% ,whereas the foreign graduates 34% and meanwhile the public
universities has reached a surprising 70%.

Today, most of the employers are looking for

graduates with a high level of confidence who are exposed to niche areas outside of their
academic studies. Today, employers looking for quality skills in interpersonal communication,
critical thinking, and problem-solving, not just the ability to complete job duties (Un ange pass,
2008). According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Job Outlook
2010 surveyed that the Malaysian graduates lack of the analytical skills, teamwork skills,
communication skills, strong work ethic and technical skills. Besides, the recruitment section of
the daily newspapers will give some clear informations. Job advertisements constantly define a
graduate as the people with the following qualities such as eager to learn, results driven,
possesses enthusiasm and initiative, good communication and interpersonal skill, excellent
written and spoken English, flexibility, time management, leadership, numeracy, planning and
organizing skill, commercial awareness, teamwork, decision making ,creativity, independence,
stress tolerance, lifelong learning self awareness and last but not least, proficiency in Microsoft
Office applications. Therefore, this academic report presents the findings of the important skills
that employers are looking for in graduates . On the other hand, the suggestion for relevant
bodies to ensure that future graduates are equipped with the skills listed.

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2.0 Definition of Terms Used

For easy reference and understanding of this writing, the following terms are defined:
2.1 Graduates
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, graduate can be definite as a person who has a first
degree from a university or college.
2.2 Employers
According duhaimeorg., a person is contractually bound to a worker. He gives the worker
money as salary or wages, in exchange for on going work which the employer directs the work
and exercises fundamental control over the work.
2.3 Skills
2.31 Hard Skills
Hard Skill are technical or administrative procedures related to an organizations core
business. These skills are easy to observe, quantify and measure. They are also easy to
train. For example machine operation, safety standards, financial procedures, computer
protocols and sales administration (Dennis, 2006).
.

2.32 Soft Skills

Soft Skills are typically hard to observe, quantify and measure. These skills are needed
for everyday life as much as they are needed for work. For example, solving problems,
communicating, listening, engaging in dialogue, giving feedback, cooperating, as a team
member, contributing in meeting and resolving conflict (Dennis, 2006).

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3.0 Literature Review

During the past few years, the unemployment rate of graduates in Malaysia are increasing.
According to Malaysian Today (2005), the survey of the government Malaysia was discover that
about 60,000 Malaysia graduates were unemployment. This is because they lack of experience,
poor communication skills, poor in English and they had pursued studied irrelevant to market
place. The Ministry of Human Resource recently reported that a lot of graduates are still jobless.
According to the report, 70%of graduates from public universities and higher institution are still
unemployed. This is in contrast with 26% from higher private institutions and 34% who are
foreign graduates (Suresh, 2006).
Vijan (2007) indicated that there are common perceived reasons as to why graduates are jobless
in Malaysia. Because of lacking skills, they are not able to impress employers during interview.
They do not have the right skill like communication skills and presentation skills. They week in
proficiency in English (Phang 2006). They also can not perform to contribute to the company
once they start work because they no ready to work. Fong(2004) and Henwood (2007) indicated
that Malaysian universities are not producing work-ready graduates. This is because the
system of education Malaysia is too exam-oriented. Today, graduates are required to have more
than their academic. Baxter and Young (1982) said that employers need entry level employees
who are trustworthy and dependable, have thinking and problem solving skills, have basic
communication and have the desire to learn and advance, have team work skills and possess a
proper attitude.
According to Asma dan Lim(2000); Yogeeswaran(2005) dan Vijan (2007), the local universities
and higher institution has produced the graduates who are competent theory-wise. However,
they no sufficient practical exposure. The other reason is related to the mismatch between what
the higher institution are producing and what the Malaysia job-market seek. Besides, the local
higher institutions no guarantee the graduates get a job after a degree.

According to

Norshima(2008), the government are setting the training scheme for unemployed graduates such
as the training scheme for unemployed graduates, more subjects at school level taught in English
and the Electronic Labour Exchange (ELX) project.

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4.0 Findings
Taking into account the relative importance of the skills to employers, the greatest skill
deficiencies among new graduates were perceived to be in the areas of:
4.1 Communication Skills
Communication is the receiving and sending of verbal and non verbal messages within the
organizational context (Roebuck, 2001; Ober, 2001; Murphy, Hildebrandt, & Thomas, 1997).
According to Hanna and Wilson (1998), they expanded on this definition, indicating business
communication is a process of transmitting, generating, receiving and interpreting messages in
interpersonal, public, group, and mass communication contexts through written and verbal
formats. Hynes (2005) indicated that effective communication is the key to planning, leading,
organizing, and controlling the resources of the organizations to achieve objectives, and may be
formal or informal in nature. The graduates should focus on the importance of communication in
business. They can measure the importance of communication skills in the business sector when
they read the job advertisements.

If a graduates lack of these communication skill, they may

find it impossible to climb up the corporate ladder. Thus, promotions come to those who can
communicate effectively at all levels, from senior management level to the lowest employee.
Good communication skills will help the relationships to develop along good lines, and ensure
that arguments and disagreements are kept to a minimum. Last year , The Star ,10 April 2010,
reported that the top jobs only for those who know the language well. This newspapers also
reported that the graduates lack confidence in oral communication especially in interviews and
oral presentations. This is because the graduates cannot speak in English when they go to
interview. Now, the employers surveyed cited speaking in English as the most important skill
followed by writing.

Today, every graduate must have the ability to write and speak in

professional manner because graduates have to involved in various aspects of business and
interact with clients. The language is very important because if you can not speak your English
present yourself well, it is hard to help a company drive business. Similarly, the graduates will
frequently carry out in English such as taking messages; reading contracts, instructions, reports ,
documents; filling in forms; receiving instructions; answering the telephone; interacting with
colleagues, clients, bosses; writing memos; participating in and holding meetings; giving
instructions; writing letters and writing reports. They also carried out in English as they involve
communication with other individuals at work or with clients who use English. If the graduates
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can not speak and writing in English very well, how they seek a job. Communication Skills
also includes the telephone skill, presenting, listening, persuading and negotiating, body
language, gathering information, motivating supporting and so on. Telephone skills is also very
important because before contact with the client or customer, the employee should thinking
through in advance what the employee want to say and keeping business calls to the point. The
employee should listen attentively so that he or she expresses interest in what people are saying.
Good listening builds a rapport and understanding with speaker. After reading the above skills,
the graduates will know what skills he or she lack.
4.2 Teamwork Skills
Benders et al. (2001) also discovered a positive effect of group delegation for
decreasing

worker

absenteeism

rates

and

improving

organizational

performance. Most companies realize that teamwork is important because either the product
is sufficiently complex that it requires a team with multiple skills to produce, and a better product
will result when a team approach is taken. If the graduates havent these skills, they will gaining
a poor reputation on the job. Therefore, it is important that graduates learn to function in a team
environment so that they will have teamwork skill when they enter the workforce. Teamwork
involves contributing your own ideas, working confidently within a group, taking a share of
responsibility and being assertive. The graduates accept and learn from constructive criticism
and providing positive, constructive feedback to other. As working in team, they should have
exercise on team working skills like the questionnaire which should help them to analyze the
workings of a group and help them reach some tentative conclusions about their role in a team.
Besides, the roles are not always constant in team depending on what is being discussed. The
graduates should give ideas of which of these roles they play in teams. Harmony among the
team members should always maintain. If the members feel comfortable, they willing to change
their own views to get a group decision. Besides, the good leader in team should direct the
sequence of steps the group take and keeps the group. The leader experts to controlling people
and events and coordinating resources. He or she have determination and initiative to solve
problem and bring competitive drive the team. If the teams effectiveness it has a range of
individuals who give different ways and complement each other. Everyone understands the task
they have to help each other. Hence, through the teamwork skills the risk of the company are
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low because the employees will help the company solve problem. So, all employers are keen to
recruit the graduates who able to solve problem, co-operate and work in teams. These skills will
increase the employers profit.
1.3 Computing and Office Skill
According to Stovers (2003), computers are often seen as the gateway to membership in the
global information society and a requirement for the workforce of the future. According to
Bailey and Stefaniak (2001), the knowledge, skills and abilities needed by computer programmer
and, find that the shortage of computer personnel comes from a lack of adequate skills not a lack
of applicants. The study identified a total of 85 skills that were important to computer
programmers; these subdivide into technical skills, soft skills and business concepts. Computer
skills are a basic requirement for a large number of jobs. Today, new technologies and
methodologies are requiring people to operate beyond their comfort zone.

Employers are

looking for the graduates who have the computing and office skills. Graduates have to use
technology effectively at the work place to enhance their job output and use appropriate
technologies, channels and resources to access information .

Now. almost any office job you

apply for will require you to have basic typing and data entry skills, as well as a basic
understanding of how to use an operating system. Most employers requires graduates to be
familiar with office productivity software as well, such as spreadsheet programs and word
processors. Graduates can take part in job skills training courses, leadership training courses,
safety courses and anything else on a computer. Because the internet is worldwide, even small
businesses can benefit by promoting their products and services. So, the companies can open the
business for international markets online to increase their income and increasing the sales
drastically. Through the internet also help the firm purchase or making payment online, linking
consumers and business , network management, trying out new ideas, doing fast business,
improving the standards of customer service or support resource, allowing the business to appear
alongside other established businesses, gathering opinions, supporting managerial functions and
so on. From the above benefits of the new technologies, all the graduates will understand why
the employers expect them to possess these skills. If the graduates lack of these skills, they must
take course to improve their IT knowledge.

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4.4 Critical Thinking Skills

Most problem-solving skills are developed through everyday life and experience. According to
the newspapers The Sun,4 March 2012, reported that graduates emerging from the Malaysian
education system are failing to meet the expectations prospective employers due to lack of
critical thinking skill.

Usually, the graduates lack of critical thinking skill will fail their

interview. Therefore, human resource and recruitment consultants feel that the future generations
need a sound foundation in critical thinking for the employment market. According to Neumann
(1989), critical thinking describes how individuals think about and solve the complex problems.
Critical thinking can caused the managerial work effectively. A good leader with critical
thinking, able to make decisions and effect action of enlarged scope and heightened quality. The
graduates are often expected to think critically and make decisions about their work, not just
follow the managers instructions. The graduates will face problems in any job. The graduates
should show skills to solve the problem and the personal resilience to handle the challenge and
stress they may bring. If the graduates possess these thinking skills, they able to follow the
stages to solving problem such as evaluate information or situations, break the problems down
into their key components, consider different ways of approaching and solving problems and
decide on the most suitable of these ways, take action, examine results and test review. Example,
When the firm lacking of capital, the manager have to solve this problem through his or her
thinking skill to help the firm overcome obstacles in the businesses. So, the manager have to
plan how to rising of more capital. The manager often starts with a plan to see what the firm
cash needs are and when the firms cash needs arise. Thus, the manager need to consider the
suitable ways to rising the capital. Before taking action, the manager have to examine the results
and test review. Then, the manager take action such as borrow money from the bank. From this
example, we know that the skill of graduates will affect a company earned money or get loss in
the business. According to Bettman and Johnson (1993), an adaptively flexible leader can
manage successfully in the international marketplace than a leader who is not adaptively flexible.

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4.5 Time Management

Time management is a set of principles, practice, skill, tools and system that help the graduates
use their time to complete what their want. Today, employers are looking for a staff who have
time management skills. The employers feel that the time management is very important because
this skill will lead their business successful. According to Ajayi (2007), the reasons for time
management is reduces misunderstanding and confusion out the essential creates time and
opportunity for carrying out the essential duties. Next, it reduces conflicts in schedules, activities
and interpersonal relations. The third reason is increases the productivity of staff. The fourth
reason is facilitates delegation of duties to staff and the last reason is makes it easy for staff to
meet deadlines. Today, the employers are worry about the employees poor in time management.
As a newbie, time management in the workplace is an important skill, the graduate must possess.
It can determine their career success. Sometimes, the graduates will get quite stressful especially
when they are learning new roles and responsibilities. Let say , if you a manager in a company,
you should be sure you understand your own role and responsibilities in the office. This helps
when work is assigned to you. As a newbie, you may not know what is needed and expected of
you. This can cause delays and hence hamper our efficiency. The first time management in
workplace advice to understand your role and those of your colleagues. The second, you should
prioritize your work. Ranking them in oder of importance. Do not overwhelm yourself with too
long a to-do list. Too long a to-do list may cause you to postpone on starting the work.
The third, you do not waste time on taking long smoking breaks, chatting on phone , taking long
tea breaks and sufing on the internet. These actions will cause you cannot complete the jobs.
The fourth, you should get really clear about what is the next action. After that, please take
action now. Let everyone in your team know you are not to be interrupted unless there is an
emergency. If the workers or staff always waste the time , it will cause the productivity decrease,
the company will get loss and the clients do not trust the company again . The graduates should
improve their time management skill so that do not affecting Malaysia:s global competitiveness.
Thus, the employers are very concern the time management skills.

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5.0 Recommendations
Below are the recommendations for future graduates, government bodies or educational
institution in Malaysia to ensure that future graduates are equipped with the skills listed:
5.1 Graduates
From the above findings, the graduates should read the requirements of the job advertisements
before they go to interview. This way may help them understand the skills that the employers
looking for a graduates. Knight and Yorke(2000) said that any transferring the learning from one
context to another, the learner have to use that learning in a variety of different situations.
Through this ways, , it going to seem that practice in a number of contexts is fundamental for the
development of employability skills and attributes. Steel and Sausman(1997) indicated that
individuals are are encouraged to undertake higher education because, in part, there is a
significant earnings premium that graduates gain, on average, over their working lifetime .
Therefore, they must take actions to improve their weakness. The communication skills are very
important for a graduates. If they poor in English, they should take suitable English language
courses before go to seek their jobs. For this purpose, the courses should focus on speaking,
writing, confidence-building activities and job-related as well as in social situations. On the other
hand, graduates can improve communication skills from internet such as search the reading
materials from internet. This way may develop and consolidate graduates skills apart from
helping them acquire vocabulary and critical thinking skills. The graduates also can improve
their conversation using the Facebook.

Before seeking a good job, the graduates need to

participate some activities to improve their teamwork skills. The graduates can join the camping
to acquiring these skills. Usually the camping will organize the participants into several groups.
the graduates can improve their teamwork skills from the activities such as group discussion.
Through this way, the future graduates have opportunity to contribute their own ideas effectively,
taking a share of the responsibility, working confidently and solving problem within a group.
Hence, it is an exercise on team working skills. If the future graduates weak in computing and
office skill, they must take courses, read technical books, read online tutorials, subscribe to
technical magazines, embrace a variety of software and learn to program. It is important to
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develop their technical skills as an integral part of their personal development efforts.

The

future graduates should read a lot of newspapers. After that, they should write some issues in
blogs and give some opinions. This is because writing used as a means to restructure knowledge
improves higher-order thinking. In this context, writing may provide opportunity for future
gradutes to think through arguments and use higher-order thinking skills to respond to complex
problems . Time management also an important skill too. The future graduates should using
internet to acquire the information of time management. The future graduates can view and
download a free time management assessment tool at the free online resources section, which
will help them to objectively judge their time management and underling issues. They must read
the tips how to improve this skill. Then, they must training themselves first before seeking a
job. The future graduates can improve their time management through planning; prioritising;
delegating; controlling their environment; understanding themselves and identifying what they
will change about their attitude, habits, routines and.

After training, they already have the

concepts how to manage the time in workplace.

5.2 Government bodies
The government bodies also play important roles to improve the skills that employers looking
for the graduates. Morley (2001) recommended that Higher Education Istitution both mediate
and manage government policy, and that the boundaries between the academy, government and
businesses have loosened and been reformed. First, the government bodies should start to help
the unemployed graduates by proving them with training opportunities to improve their working
skills and ability through their Management Training Scheme. However, the aim of this scheme
is to increasing the graduates employability. Through this scheme, the unemployed graduates are
given the exposure to office operations. Today, graduates need to be multi-skilled to enable them
to compete in the job market. A degree alone is not sufficient for them. They need to have other
additional skills such as communication, team work skills, time management, computing and
office skill and thinking skill. Through this program, the graduates get the opportunity to
improve themselves in these skills as well as gaining experience.

Through the Management

Training Scheme, the graduates also can learn practical skills in dealing with fellow colleagues
as well as external parties.

Therefore, the government should take an action immediately

because the skills and experience that they gain during the training give them added value and
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make them more marketable in the job market. The second recommendation is the government
also can help the graduates through the government loan . The government can set up a career
loan such as Professional ad Career Development Loan. Through this loan, the government will
help the graduates who lack the fund to take vocational courses to improve their career prospect
and earning potential. The graduates only start to repay the loan over a period agreed. Hence,
the graduates no need to worry about the course fees and living expenses.

The third

recommendation is the government should enforce the employers offer the right internship to the
graduates. The employers should ensure that any internship opportunity conforms to legal
requirements. The government can encourage the employers to pay a wage that reflects both the
value of the interns contribution and the level of training and support offered by the employer.
The government should ensure the employer that any internship they offer complies with the law
on minimum wages. Through this way, the graduates can improve their communication skills,
team work skill, time management, computing and office skill and thinking skill in a realistic
office.

Besides, the government should establish as a top-priority national aim that every

student must complete school possessing sufficient employability skills to earn a decent living.
The government also should increase teachers capacity to teach employability skills.
5.3 Educational institutions
5.3.1 Primary school
Based on the skill listed above, education system has to evaluate how well it is
preparing children for the job market. According to Harvey et al.(1997),
employability was highlighted as a concern for employers and was the focus of a
major study. I think we can train the pupils improve the communication skill
starting from the primary school. The English teachers are playing an important
role to make sure their pupil can speak in English from Year 1 to Year 6. Besides,
the school should force the pupils pass the oral in the examination. The English
teachers should held a lot of activities to improve the language such as story telling,
writing competition, reading competition and so on. The teachers should allow
several minutes of time for pupils to chatter in English amongst themselves and
allowing them to talk to their classmates while doing art projects or hands-on
learning activities. Besides, pupils must know how to talk and how to listen.
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However, often only listening is practiced in school. Teachers should provide their
pupils with ample time to talk on their own, and should listen to them. As teachers
demonstrate how to listen to pupil while pupils talk, pupils get a chance to practice
their communication skills and have a model for what it means to listen. Beside the
communication skills, the pupils should learn computing in primary school. The
teacher should teach them the basic of computing program such as Word
Processing(Microsoft

Word),

Spreadsheets(Microsoft

Excel),

Presentation(Microsoft Power Point) and so on. Through these ways, they can
improve the computer knowledge.
5.3.2 Secoundary School
The secondary school also play an important role to improve the graduates skills.
The school should enforce the student take part in their co-curricular activities.
The secondary school should provide valuable lessons for practical situations such
as teamwork, communication skills, thinking skill, time management skill, wining
and losing, sportsmanship, and hard work. Through these activities, the student
can learn self-discipline, build self-confidence and develop skills to handle
competitive situations.

These are qualities the employers expects schools to

produce in students so that they become responsible adults. Besides, the secondary
school should provide the computing programs to their student.

The student

should learn the basic concepts of information technology, using the computer and
managing files, information and communication (email and internet) from here.
While the students studying in their classroom, the teachers should give the
students chance to express their own thinking, which demands that they evaluate
sources of information, identify assumptions, learn new principles and
vocabularies, and imagine the implications of the stance they decide to take.
5.3.3 Higher Education Institutions
According to Romer(1990) and Stokey (1995), Higher education has been
recognized as one of the major forces to achieve sustainable economic growth.
Example, the higher education institution produces skilled labour which is needed
to initiate research and development activities and thus provide a base sustainable
growth. The higher education institutions should always give seminars to the
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graduates about the skills that employers are looking for. This is because the
graduates not understand the working situation. The higher education schools
should cooperate with the employers working hand in hand in assignments, project
and give talks to the graduates . Besides, they also need to provide a long practical
training duration about three months, to better groom graduates according to
employers requirements. The higher educational institutions also should be given
lecturers to work in industry for better exposure in the academic environment.
The second way is the universities should set the activities with career awareness
for their student.

The educators should arrange the classroom in such a way that

it replicates key features of realistic work situation. After that, the educators
should assign the student tasks similar to those performed by workers those
settings. These way can help the graduates understand the operation of the realistic
workplace.

The following way is the educators should communicate to the

students who have to perform tasks successfully and provide monitoring and
encouragement to help them achieve success. The educators need to participate in
professional development activities and enroll in classes that emphasize methods
to teach employability skills. The educators must use the different materials in
different media in response to students differing learning styles.

The higher

school should encourage the students take part in course such as the course about
learning oral in English, writing in English, programmes computing, the time
management skill, improve thinking skills and so on.

Besides, the higher

institution also always force the student take part in camping. This way will help
them improves the communication skill, team work skills, time management skills,
thinking skill, and so on. Though this recommendations, the unemployment rate
will decrease in the future.

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6.0 Conclusion
Graduates unemployment is a big issues in Malaysia.

Why a large of number of

graduates jobless? This is because they lack of soft skill and hard skill. The skills that the
employers are looking for are communication skills, team work skills, computing and office
skill, thinking skills and time management skills. The communication skills are very important
because which creates a positive impact when a person goes for a job interview. Now, the
employers surveyed cited speaking in English as the most important skill followed by writing.
Today, every graduate must have the ability to write and speak in professional manner because
graduates have to involved in various aspects of business and interact with clients. Now, the
employers surveyed cited speaking in English as the most important skill followed by writing.
Today, every graduate must have the ability to write and speak in professional manner because
graduates have to involved in various aspects of business and interact with clients. Teamwork
skills also a important skills that employers are looking for. The most effective teamwork is
produced when all the individuals involved harmonize their contributions and work towards a
common goal. Teamwork has become an important part of the working culture and many
businesses now look at teamwork skills when evaluating a person for employment. Most
companies realize that teamwork is important because either the product is sufficiently complex
that it requires a team with multiple skills to produce, and/or a better product will result when a
team approach is taken. Computer skills are a basic requirement for employers. This is because
the computing skills will help the employers promote their products and services at the
international markets specially the through the internet. The employers also want to look for the
graduates who have the thinking skills. The graduates who have the thinking skill will help the
employers solving problem in their organization. Besides, the graduates always make decision
about their works too. Thus, thinking skills is one of the important skill. Time management also
a important skills for the employers looking for. The graduates need to finish their work on time.
This is because it will affect the profit of a company.
Many methods can reduce the rate of graduates unemployment. I have recommended the
graduates have to take courses to improve themselves. Before going interview, they should
understand the skills that employers want. If they poor in English, they need to take course or
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from internet to improve themselves. They also can take part in activities which can improve the
team work skills. If the future graduates weak in computing and office skill, they must take
courses, read technical books, read online tutorials, subscribe to technical magazines, embrace a
variety of software and learn to program. The graduates also can write their opinions on blogs
because writing used as a means to restructure knowledge improves higher-order thinking. The
future graduates should using internet to acquire the information of time management. The
future graduates can improve their time management through better planning; prioritizing;
delegating; controlling their environment; understanding themselves and identifying what they
will change about their habits, routines and attitude. The government bodies also should
improve the graduates skill through the Management Training Scheme, set up a career loan such
as Professional ad Career Development Loan, enforce the employers offer the right internship to
the graduates and establish as a top-priority national aim that ever student must complete school
possessing sufficient employability skills to earn a decent living. For the education institution,
the education system has to evaluate how well it is preparing children for the job market. They
can train the pupils improve the job s skills started from primary school and secondary school.
The higher education schools should cooperate with the employers working hand in hand in
assignments, project and give talks to the graduates. The educators need to participate in
professional development activities and enroll in classes that emphasize methods to teach
employability skills.

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