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Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2024
The Greenville Chamber, in Greenville, South Carolina, conducted the Bridging The Talent Survey (BTTG) campaigns to better understand the skills gap between the educational attainment of their workforce, the needs of local businesses, and to engage incumbent workers in education and upskilling opportunities. This report presents the key findings…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Educational Attainment, Achievement Gap, Labor Force
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Thomas Gauthier – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: American Community colleges are vital to the country's economic mobility and are leaders in developing and facilitating career, technical, and workforce education. This study explored employer perspectives on employees' common and specialized skills across industries in the United States. Design/methodology/approach: Employers were…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Job Skills, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness
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Veronica Salm; Lukasz Golab – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2024
Co-operative education (co-op) programs enable students to gain real-world experience by alternating work and study terms. Understanding employers' expectations of students in different disciplines is therefore critical for success. To do this, the relationships between co-op job postings, required skills, and academic backgrounds can be modeled…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Employer Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Erin Gabriele – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Literature and research span a multitude of ways to define critical thinking. It is used frequently and interchangeably within academia and the workforce based on the context and experiences of the individual. Amidst the ambiguity and complexity in a composite definition of critical thinking, over the past years, it continues to rank in the top…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Student Attitudes, College Faculty
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Tandika, Pambas; Ndijuye, Laurent Gabriel – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to university students' awareness of the employers preferred competencies and the educational level capable of readying them satisfactory for the demands of the world of work. Design/methodology/approach: Using a qualitative approach exploratory research design, data were gathered in an informal and…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Competence, Employer Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Mahajan, Renuka; Gupta, Pragya; Misra, Richa – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: The paper aims at examining the employability skills relevant in the unprecedented times of turbulence in businesses due to COVID-19 in the Indian context. Design/methodology/approach: The study examined the recent skills model through an extensive literature review. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is conducted to identify the…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Job Skills, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Coffelt, Tina; Cosgrove, Samantha; Vance, Bremen – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2022
Understanding the expectations of employers contributes to the relevancy of business and professional communication (BPC) courses. Studies that bridge the gap between course content and workplace expectations support this process. This article presents findings from a scale development procedure to analyze BPC skills using a multimodal…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Business Administration Education, Test Construction, College Graduates
Bui, Tu Quyen Thi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Vietnam currently faces a social skills deficit among college graduates. This lack of sufficient social skills significantly affects Vietnam's economy where it is one of the main factors that drives higher unemployment in Vietnam. Research has shown that although social skills have been increasingly perceived by employers as one of the most…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Interpersonal Competence
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Dinh, Ngoan Thi; Dinh Hai, Luong; Pham, Hiep-Hung – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: Employability has long been a concern of scholars because of its complicated nature and changes in the requirements in labor markets to meet the new requirements of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and globalization. However, there has not yet been much systematic investigation of the existing literature tracing the trends, changes and…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Research, Employment Potential, Trend Analysis
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Paudel, Prakash Kumar; Parajuli, Mahesh Nath – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the formal workplace learning situation in Nepal and argue that workplace learning is not in priority in Nepali Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) despite a regular policy emphasis. Design/methodology/approach: Data were gathered using both desk-based review of pre-diploma and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employers, Principals, Vocational Education
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Leow, Anthony; Chua, Shuyi; Billett, Stephen; Le, Anh Hai – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: Employers often claim that the lack of employee competence is a limitation in their enterprises' success and viability. Consequently, employers are important stakeholders in considerations for workforce continuing education and training (CET) policies and practices. Hence, the authors undertook an exploratory investigation to understand…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Professional Continuing Education, Professional Development, Skill Development
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2023
This publication presents information on employers' use and views of the vocational education and training (VET) system. The findings relate to the various ways in which Australian employers use accredited and unaccredited training to meet their skill needs and their satisfaction with the training. Australian employers can engage with accredited…
Descriptors: Employers, Employer Attitudes, Vocational Education, Job Training
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Chiedu Eseadi; Boitumelo Molegogeng Diale – Online Submission, 2023
This article focused on career transition issues of students with visual impairments (SVIs). This article utilized a narrative-integrative research design. The literature review shows that many educators and other stakeholders in the transition process are still unaware of the difficulties experienced by SVIs. The literature shows a mixed attitude…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Vocational Adjustment, Labor Force
Renee Rana Kazemipour Paquier – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study responds to a national conversation about the role that Career Technical Education (CTE) might play in meeting workforce demand for soft skills. It is challenging for CTE programs to offer soft skills for several reasons. Both educators and employers tend to associate CTE with hard skills, or technical skills and therefore the programs…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Soft Skills, Community Colleges, Public Colleges
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Sevinj Iskandarova; Karen Ford – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This study investigates experiential learning's role and efficacy at a doctoral-level leadership studies program concentrating on a compulsory externship. The key to this work is the enlightening environment and collaboration between the doctoral students and many participating organizations. This study employs hybrid community-based participatory…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, College Faculty, School Business Relationship, Partnerships in Education
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