Employability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

• Autorzy: Alexandrina M. Pauceanu , Nada Rabie , Ayman Moustafa
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

It is expected that the fourth industrial revolution will have a massive impact on individual career future experience by changing the basis of work, employment, and business in the upcoming future. Moreover, one-third of today's jobs will disappear by 2025 due to technology's intelligence development. Thus, students' employability skills are considered an effective tool to sustain employment at the future labour market. However, there are discrepancies in employability skills vision between higher education students' perspectives and those of employers. This study aims to recognize higher education students' perspectives about employability skills and to compare them with the labour market employability skills as requested by employers. A questionnaire was designed to test graduate students' perspectives on employability using the WEF 2020 employability skills. The results show that students are not fully aware of the fourth industrial revolution employability skills, thus, there is a gap between future labour market demand and students' perspectives about future employability skills. This study is testing employability in its two aspects. Firstly, the UAE graduate students' perspective of the employability skills as required by employers. Secondly, testing students' evaluation of the university educational programs' readiness in preparing them for the job market. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Higher education; Industrial revolution; Employability

PL

Szkolnictwo wyższe; Rewolucja przemysłowa; Zatrudnialność

• Czasopismo: Economics & Sociology
• Rocznik: 2020
• Tom: 13
• Numer: nr 3
• Strony: 269--283

Twórcy

autor

Alexandrina M. Pauceanu

• Department of Business, HCT, UAE

autor

Nada Rabie

• Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

autor

Ayman Moustafa

• British University in Dubai, Dubai, UAE

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DOI

10.14254/2071-789X.2020/13-3/17