Are graduates equipped with the right skills in the employability stakes

By J. Raybould, V. Sheedy. 2005

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Key Competencies of Tourism Graduates: The Employers' Point of View (2009, background): “Of course, the degree to which these skills are required by employers varies depending on the type of job role to be carried out within an organization (i.e., these skills might be of particular importance for graduates taking up management positions; Raybould & Sheedy, 2005).”
Skills development in higher education in Vietnam (2009, background): “The significance of teamwork and interpersonal skills is also reiterated in other studies (Meisinger 2004, FutureSkills Scotland 2005, Raybould and Sheedy 2005).”
Graduate Employability, 'Soft Skills' Versus 'Hard' Business Knowledge: A European Study (2008, background): “Other studies have found that nearly two-thirds of all graduate vacancies are open to graduates from any discipline with the type of skills required dependent upon the role to be carried out within a particular organisation (Raybould and Sheard, 2005).”
Is graduate employability the ‘whole-of-higher-education-issue’? (2015, background): “…have built and attempted to assess lists of skills or graduate attributes that university students purportedly need to develop to be employable after graduation (Meisinger 2004; Hartshorn and Sear 2005; Raybould and Sheedy 2005; see, e.g. Cox and King 2006; Hart 2008; Omar et al. 2012).”