Employees’ Perception of Employability Skills Needed in Todays Workforce among Physiotherapy Graduates

The purpose of this research is to investigate the employers’ perceptions of employability skills and competency levels of 45 physiotherapy graduate employees. The Survey of the Employability Skills Needed in the Workforce were adapted and distributed to all graduates employees. Findings demonstrated that employers perceived only the following 7 items that needed enhancement in the physiotherapy education: critical thinking ability, generating hypotheses and linking ideas, applying theory into practice, sharp analytical skills,prioritizing problems, keeping up-to-date on latest information regarding the professionalism, giving clear explanation about problems and treatments and recognizing the effects of decisions to be made.