Employers’ perception on soft skills of graduates: a study of Intel Elite soft skill training
Acquiring soft skills competencies becomes increasingly important and relevant for those who are providing services. Human Resource practitioners and employers still find the local graduates lacking or mismatching of relevant soft skills competencies required in their job positions. This paper is a...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/2191/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/2191/1/EDC243.pdf |
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| Summary: | Acquiring soft skills competencies becomes increasingly important and relevant for those who are providing
services. Human Resource practitioners and employers still find the local graduates lacking or mismatching of
relevant soft skills competencies required in their job positions. This paper is a survey research. Basically, this
research is about employers’ perception on soft skills and about the Intel eLite soft skill training to enhance the
soft skills of the graduates. The Intel eLite Program, which is initiated by Intel Malaysia, is an university-industry
collaboration between Intel and Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Universiti Teknologi Mara. The objectives
are to identify the soft skills required by local and multi-national companies and to identify the contributing
factors of graduates’ unemployment. This research is done to evaluate the soft skills training program for the Intel
eLite students, in terms of speaker, content of the training modules and the facility where the session was held. A
total of 79 employers responded to the Questionnaire A and 93 Intel eLite students responded to the
Questionnaire B. The findings show that all skills identified in the soft skill training of Intel eLite program are
important in working place. Lacking of soft skills become the most likely factors to the unemployment issue of
our graduates. Intel eLite program has proven to be a good intervention program to overcome the lack of the
relevant soft skills from the perception of students. However a few improvements were suggested. |
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