A STUDY ON THE EMPLOYABILITY SKILL GAP OF ENTRY LEVEL PROFESSIONALS: AN INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

In today’s competitive scenario, getting a perfect and most suitable job for any fresh professional graduate is a major challenge. Every year professional students face many challenges and obstacles during job recruitment process. This research document discuss the various insight of  the job provider or an organization owner that how much job-fit criteria is relevant and needed in fresh professional business graduate in various levels of business scenario.  Feedback of various job providers on proficiency or skill they are taking into account as an important key point for appointing any fresh business graduate, validating their job responsibilities with business skills, is resembled with what is the actual set of proficiency is persist by a fresh business graduate of several higher education centres. With inclusion of comparison, this paper also explores various stages of centrality of various scope of capacities, needed for any fresh professional graduate which is expected by the employer’s for working in different industry service-sectors. This difference in skill set acquired by a fresh business graduate and various set of skills expected by an employer is known as “Skill-set gap”. Many researches had been conducted on this topic “skill-set gap”.

This study outcome will highlight on this topic and provide guidance to various institutional education programs in preparing the fresh graduates to become more competitive and confident. A ‘skill-set gap’ between actual and expected is identified from this research work as final outcome can be a thunder-bolt for the current business education system and its syllabus in various program schemas. Our research work is basically constructed on the basis of several classifications of different employability proficiency and skill needed in India's foremost work- relevant exploration. Our review study also shows that a vast amount of annoyance within employers with the quality of professional graduates and their performance at the practical industry level. The survey conducted in this study, depicts that employers who has hired fresh professional graduates in their industries, find them no worthy for some initial period of recruitment years in any of the organization where they are appointed as a employee, which clearly shows that the proficiency-skill an fresh business graduate is meager as we are aware that due to high dynamic job market changes, it raises the compulsory need of drastic changes in skill-set of fresh business graduate. Our research work will provide a valuable contribution in the areas of entry level professional’s career growth, student’s development at education centres, institutional education programs and industry employers.