Undergraduate Awareness and Readiness Towards Employability: The Significance of English (original) (raw)

2011

Abstract

This paper investigates the undergraduate awareness and readiness towards employability attributes with a specific reference to English Language competency. A sampling of final year students from various faculties at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) were at randomly selected and focus group interviews were conducted with each group of faculty students. The findings unravel respondents‟ beliefs and attitude and level of awareness towards employability and significance of English Language. The findings also highlight undergraduates‟ readiness towards employability in general. It has also significantly contributed to an emerging profile of UKM undergraduates as prospective employees. This profiling is hoped to raise a level of awareness amongst the university stakeholders primarily to consider measures to be undertaken in bridging the gap between the university and the industry as a whole.

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