PEMBANGUNAN STANDARD PENGUKURAN KEMAHIRAN ‘EMPLOYABILITY’

Authors

  • MOHAMAD SATTAR RASUL Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor
  • MD YUSOF ISMAIL Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor
  • NAPSIAH ISMAIL Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor
  • MUHAMMAD RASHID RAJUDDIN Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
  • ROSE AMNAH ABDUL RAUF Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia, Blok E8, Kompleks E, Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan, 62604 Putrajaya, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11113/sh.v49n1.282

Keywords:

Employability skill, employability skill assessment standard, weight factor, decision making analysis

Abstract

Mastering employability skills is one of the global problems which employers are facing with graduates or their future employees. Many kind of research in this employability skills have been conducted nationally and internationally and it was found that many technical graduates nowadays are lacking in employability skills rather than technical skills. The aim of this study is to develop a standard measurement of employability skills that can be used by employers, lecturers and individuals to measure, evaluate and monitor the employability skills. Samples for the research consist of 107 employers from manufacturing industry. Inputs from employers are used to identify aspects of the employability skills that is important to employers in the manufacturing industry. Ranking of the aspects which is used as items in the development of the standard. Method used in developing this skill employability standard is the Kepner–Tregoe Method, in which a weight factor is set.

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Published

2008-11-15

How to Cite

RASUL, M. S., ISMAIL, M. Y., ISMAIL, N., RAJUDDIN, M. R., & ABDUL RAUF, R. A. (2008). PEMBANGUNAN STANDARD PENGUKURAN KEMAHIRAN ‘EMPLOYABILITY’. Sains Humanika, 49(1). https://doi.org/10.11113/sh.v49n1.282

Issue

Vol. 49 No. 1 (2008): December 2008

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