Graduate Employability Awareness: A Gendered Perspective

To gain employment in today's challenging economic situations, fresh graduates’ hard skills need to be complemented by a good blend of employability skills. This paper compares the industry ranking and student ranking on a set of skills for entry-level jobs. Data were obtained via survey from employers and graduating students in a Malaysian university. The findings revealed that there are a number of skills that the student sample did not consider as critical but which are highly valued by the industry. Female students are found to be generally more informed than male students about the skills which the industry wants.