Business Graduate Competencies: Employers' Views on Importance and Performance.

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Hospitality Students' Competencies: Are They Work Ready? (2011, background): “Work-Ready Graduates Work-integrated programs have the purpose of preparing students for the workplace by identifying and developing the important competencies that are believed to be needed by employers (Hodges & Burchell, 2003).”
Importance of Soft Skills for Education and Career Success (2012, background): “[4] Hodges, D., & Burchell, N. (2003).”
The importance of soft skills acquisition by teachers in higher education institutions (2018, background): “Therefore, recognizing and evolving the importance of soft skills acquisition has been a thought-provoking task for curriculum designers (Hodges & Burchell, 2003).”
Employer demands from business graduates (2016, methodology): “In research undertaken with 154 employers in New Zealand, employers were asked to rate the importance of a number of business graduate competences and also to rate new business graduates’ performance for the same graduate competencies (Hodges and Burchell, 2003).”