BUETK Students Employment Prediction Using

Machine Learning
INTRODUCTION
The development of skills for employment is an important part for students. Students experience hands-on
learning and are able to apply what they learned in the classroom into a real job experience. ‘’If someone asks the
right question, such that “if a student has a 3.1 GPA, participates in two co-curricular activities, and completed one
internship, will he or she be employed?’’[1]

“Major and GPA are academic employability signals, which signify employability skills such as cognitive thinking
and problem-solving. Co-curricular activities and internships operate as experience employability signals, which
signify employability skills such as leadership, teamwork, professionalism, and work ethic[2][3]

This paper aims to present a new method to analyze employability factors and to analyze how people gets
employed. To achieve that, this paper proposes a machine-learning-based approach that produce predictive
models on employment, providing the main factors that affect the predictive model and finding the most relevant
ones. [4] And also gathers data about employment and employability parameters among the BUETK graduates
(after they leave the university).

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Why students are still not get jobs. What are the main factors?

The problem is to identify those factors by which new graduates of BUETK are still jobless. And if some of them are
on the job, what are those factors according to job requirements (CGPA, INTERSHIPS and other activities).

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

 To analyze data of BUETK students

 To develop a machine learning modal for simulation

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

 How to analyze data of BUETK students?

 How to develop a machine learning modal for simulation?

SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY

This research seeks to determine which variables are most significant

In determining employment. Understanding the most significant variables that signal employability can support
students in efforts to enhance perceived employability. For example, if the number of internships is a significant
variable, then students can seek to participate in internships with an awareness of the average number of
internships for students employed prior to graduation.[3]
LITERATURE REVIEW

TITLE AUTHOR PROBLEM METHODOLOG RESULT

NAME Y
(1)A Comparison of & Wolfman, L. which Quantitative method In this study, four
Machine Learning Sachs B. A. career path students Secondary data machine learning
Models Predicting should chose, models analyzed a
Student major, GPA, co- readily accessible
Employment curricular activities, dataset
and internships act Provided by a
as signals College of Business
For employers to in the Midwest
determine United States.
perceived Neural networks
employability. proved
to be the most
accurate predictive
model, predicting
employment prior
to graduation
With 73%
accuracy.
Additionally, this
analysis results in
co-curricular
activities and
major,
Specifically
marketing, as the
most significant
input variables.
Therefore, students
at the
College of Business
should take active
steps to enhance
their participation
in cocurricular
activities and
consider their
majors when
considering their
desire for
Employment prior
to graduation.
(2)Proposing a García-Peñalvo, Researchers have The main results
Francisco
Machine Learning built a model that Quantitative method achieved have been
Cruz-Benito, Juan
Approach to Martín-González, could predict if a Primary Data quite promising
Analyze and Predict Martín person will get The Observatory and encourage
Employment and Vázquez-Ingelmo, employed or not, gathers the authors to continue
its Factors Andrea showing also what information by using the labor of
Sánchez-Prieto, José are the factors that two input methods: improving the
Carlos affect more the the raw records from generation of
Therón, Roberto
result. Using these the Spanish predictive models
Journal
most relevant universities and the for employability
factors, researchers information provided and employment.
could clusterize by the students The authors are
students to gain through fulfilling committed to
deeper knowledge questionnaires. continue
about what are the developing the
main approach to get
characteristics better results and
between those improve the
who get an process until it
employment and could be applied
those who do not. successfully in
further research
works.
(3)Employability Vinutha K, Yogisha H In this Digital Qualitative method This study
Prediction of K Revolution, used which collect predicted
Engineering informal learning Secondary data and Employability of a
Graduates using and skill analyze data through graduate based on
Machine Learning enhancements is different machine their academic
Algorithms happening in learning algorithms. performance and
unconditional I.e.: also employability
method, relating 1.Logistic regression skills. By applying
and converging all 2.Decision trees various machine
this learning’s to 3.K-nearest neighbor learning
the employability 4.support vector classification
rate is one of a machine algorithms, we
biggest issue. The 5.KNN were able to create
main objective is to 6.ANN a model for
address this issue predicting
by predicting and employability of
forecasting the skill graduates with
acquisition highest accuracy of
continuously and 87.42% using
mapping to Artificial Neural
industry needs Network, 85.2%
using machine accuracy using
learning Algorithms Logistic Regression
classifier and
 84.21% accuracy
using Naïve Bayes
classifier. In future,
with the suggestion
of knowledgeable,
we will improve our
datasets with
student’s cognitive
data to increase
the accuracy of
employment
prediction of a
graduate.
(4)Predicting Cherry D. Casuat In this research Both Qualitative & researchers
Enrique D. Festijo
Students’ Three learning Quantitative methods concluded that
Employability using algorithms were are used. And analyze Support Vector
Machine used such data through machine Machine (SVM)
Learning Approach as Decision Trees earning algorithms. produces a
(DT), Random Which are predictive model
Forest (RF), and 1.Random Forest that obtained the
Support 2.Decision Trees highest
vector machine 3.Support vector Accuracy of
(SVM) in order to machine 91.22%. For future
understand how work the
students get researchers
Employed. And will analyzed what
which learning skillsets will give
algorithm gives higher importance
better accuracy. Score in predicting
students’
employability.
(5)A study Linsey S. Hugo The ability to The study included It correctly
conducted at OHIO predict how many data from 846 predicted that 107
university shows internships, exactly students for which students would be
the power and how many co- outcomes were employed at
potential of curricular activities, known; these data graduation and 78
machine learning to what specific type were then used in students would not
predict and of activities, and predicting outcomes be employed at
influence which majors are for 212 students. And graduation—185
employment at most likely to lead to analyze data correct predictions
graduation to a job offer and through numerous out of 212 student
how all of those machine learning records, an 87
factors work models such as percent accuracy
together. logistic regression and rate.
support vector In this study,
machine. internships were
the most predictive
variable, followed
 by specific majors
and then co-
curricular activities.

METHODOLOGY

In the above section of Literature review, I have read different types of literatures and they used different type of
methods for collecting data. Most of them used both “qualitative” and “quantitative” method for collecting data.
But my research is based on “quantitative” method and I want to collect data directly from main source which is
known as “primary data”.

Hence, my method for collecting data is Quantitative and Primary.

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