Authors: Gopi M, Dr. Manoj Kumar Sharma
Abstract: India has a great potential of youth as a considerable section of people are educated, although not formally employed, and are prepared to enter the labour force. In today’s competitive job market, it is not enough to have just educational qualifications. The true challenge is imparting methods to shorten the time frames that separate education and work in life education context. This research aims to investigate how important employability skills have become and which soft skills make graduates job ready. A survey that was exploratory in nature was done on 100 college students of the city Hyderabad , the sample was diverse yet academically homogeneous. The survey employed a semi-structured questionnaire that reported employability skills such as communication, leadership, time management, problem solving, teamwork, creativity and self-management. Through factor analysis and multiple regression analysis, we tested the effects of the different soft skills with overall employability, which were the variables. Researchers discovered a significant positive relationship between people’s levels of employability and their levels of core skills (Listening, Learning, Computer literacy, Logical reasoning, Team work, Work ethics and Organizational thinking). The findings of this research underline the pressing need for the HEIs to include structured training sessions / workshops on skill development as per current industry requirements. This research presents a novel contribution because it not only predicts the essential employability skills but also gradually forecasts the impact of structured skill building approaches on increasing student’s career readiness which has not been studied in the past.
