DOI: 10.5176/2251-1970_BizStrategy18.115
Authors: L. D. A. D. Dissanayake
Abstract: Despite being the outputs of a rigorous selection procedure, the low employability among the graduates in Sri Lanka implies that there are some problems somewhere, which have not been identified and treated properly by the relevant authorities. Thus, the main objectives of this research is to select the most important employability factors, out of functional skills, problem solving skills and pre-graduate experience, from the perspective of graduates, at the point of getting their first employment and to identify the relationships between the selected perspectives of functional skills, problem solving skills and pregraduate experience, with the employability of graduates. Hence, factor analysis has been done to identify the most important factors out of the total pool of factors. Seven of such factors have been selected accordingly, out of the total pool of twenty seven factors and chi-square test has then been done to identify the relationships between the selected employability factors with the level of employability of the graduates.
Keywords: functional skills, problem solving skills, pre-graduate experience, perception, employability
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