Management Education &Sustainability: Employability & Industry Expectations

Abstract

Employability skills considered here are not job specific, but are skills which cut vertically across all jobs from entry-level to chief executive officer and horizontally across all industries." The state of Kerala served as the setting for this investigation. The current study consists of two studies: a personal survey of 100 companies asking them how they rate the graduates who graduate annually and a look at 379 students from chosen institutions in Kerala, India, to see how they view their own employability abilities. This study aims to investigate how employers and MBA graduates assess graduate employability skills from their perspectives—that is, from the observed vs self-perceived—in order to better understand the issue. An educated population is a productive population, according to Leroy Almendarez (2013), and the idea highlights "how education increases the productivity and efficiency of workers by increasing the level of cognitive stock of economically productive human capability." The study's final finding is that both employers and students believe that employability skills are only fair in quantity and belief, revealing the current employability skill situation among students that need to be addressed and remedied to support the development of improved human capital.