Employability Skill Matrix for Engineering Graduates of Tier-II Institutes

Abstract

Employability is a sustainable effort to be inculcated in all students gradually. A study reveals that student's interests in studies and extra efforts are maximum in first and second year of admission. Employers are also specifically interested to test basic concepts and application oriented key stills to be demonstrated by students during recruitment.The gap between university specified examination and employability assessment can be met by using Blooms Taxonomy Levels. Identified 11 employability skills that are predominantly important for any industry/employer needs to be inculcated in a time bound way by identifying chain of similar subject domains or mapping through prerequisite subjects. Subject specific employability skill matrix development procedure is presented in this research work.