... skills to gain immediate employment in the market. Originality/value A clearer understanding on the expectations and the “must-have-skills” required in the engineering field in the twenty-first century. Table I Malaysian industry operators and EAC/BEM pick on the top five must-have soft skills...

...Shweta Sangwan; Shalini Garg Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand MBA skill transfer, employability and how work-integrated learning (WIL) can help in ensuring the availability of employable managers after the completion of MBA. India faces a major crisis in terms of finding...

...Vikki Pollard; Andrew Vincent; Emily Wilson Purpose – This paper aims to explore the pedagogical approach of two higher education programmes aiming to develop both discipline-specific and key employability skills in graduates. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents two case...

... and differing levels of employability and competitiveness between different countries and regions worldwide. Therefore, a better understanding of the changing trends in the division of labor, as envisioned by Levy and Murnane, entails an interplay between, and integration of, at least the higher education...