EMPLOYABILITY REPORT WORK SAMPLE

There is some student that has challenges while seeking employment upon graduating from
University. Most University includes the development of employability skills within their
curricula. However, employers continue to report that graduates are not ready for real-world work
(Tymon, 2013). There is still not a recipe on how to prepare graduates for real-world work, but
most Universities is working on how to prepare them and improve their skills. Is it because of
employability skill develop in undergraduate programs are to be limited? Should the
government/companies give University more money so students have more opportunities to be
prepared.

Universities have programs to prepare students for real-life work and try to improve their
employment skills before their graduates. Today we have “internship” so you can have some
working experience and insight on how things work. Governments and employers request the
Universities to increasingly call for higher education providers to prepare graduates for real-life
work (Jackson, 2013). However, the theory strongly suggests that effective learning requires a
clear understanding of the values on how the workplace work (Jackson, 2013), and if the students
are missing some points here it could be hard for them to understand how things are working.
Some people believe that employability is a short-term goal, and is about finding a job, any job,
or employment (Tymon, 2013). However, some literature definitions take a much wider stance,
suggests that employability should be more concerned with long-term sustainability and quality
graduates.

One of the reasons why many students are investing in going to university education is to prepare
and improve their employment prospect. However, employers expect that graduates have well-
developed employment skills, so they can make an immediate contribution to the workplace
when recruited (Saunders & Zuzel, 2010). Academic qualifications are highly valued and not
easy to achieve, it could still be hard to get a job because employers require that they have
developed enough employability skills.

There is evidence that shows that the transition from higher education to the labour market
involves an active process for students (Tomlinson, 2007). And there are some limitations
(Tymon, 2013) for undergraduate, so that means there are improvements in the higher
education’s section. However, there are some good programs at many Universities that helps you
improve and develop employability skills in the workplace. Internships and other courses like
“Work and employability” are something that helps undergraduates to be prepared when they
graduate. Personally, I think that the Government and employers should give more money to
University so all students have a chance to work in a business that fits their student program.
Also, students have to be more interested in learning and have awareness about the labour
market. That will help them when they graduate.

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Jackson, D. (2013). Student Perceptions of the Importance of Employability

Skill Provision in Business Undergraduate Programs. Journal of Education for Business. 88:5,
271-279, DOI:
10.1080/08832323.2012.697928

Saunders, V., & Zuzel, K. (2010). Evaluating Employability Skills:

Employer and Student Perceptions. Bioscience Education, 15:1, 1-15, DOI:
10.3108/beej.15.2

Tomlinson, M. (2007). Graduate employability and student attitudes and orientations to the
labour market, Journal of Education and Work, 20:4, 285-304, DOI:
10.1080/13639080701650164

Tymon, A. (2013). The student perspective on employability. Studies in Higher

Education, 38:6, 841-856, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2011.604408