Employability is basically the ability to gain initial employment. It also refers to the attributes of a person that make that person able to gain and maintain employment.
Lee Harvey defines employability as the ability of a graduate to get a satisfying job, stating that job acquisition should not be prioritized over preparedness for employment to avoid pseudo measure of individual employability.
Lee argues that employability is not a set of skills but a range of experiences and attributes developed through higher-level learning, thus employability is not a "product' but a process of learning.
According to a survey, 90 percent of the youth is unemployed, even after acquiring degrees.
The problem is not with the student, but our curriculum is not employability-centric.
It is just bookish.
We need to change our education perspective.
We need to make our primary education system employability-centric.
We need to have following included into our initial curriculum stages:
- Getting along with and working well with other people, such as communication skills and other interpersonal skills.
- Being reliable and dependable: doing what you say you will by the deadline you have agreed, and turning up when you are meant to be there. And
- A willingness to learn new skills, whether those are job-specific or more general.
I would also like to touch most neglected field that is hotel management education.
We don’t make our students learn skills.
As an overview, I would like to suggest that we make our curriculum skill-learned centric, that includes every skill, such as Communication, Cooking skills, Speaking skills, Presentation skills, etc.