Relationship between Generic Skills and Employability Skills: An Exploratory Study in the Context of New Zealand Postgraduate Education

Zhenfeng Zhao and Indrapriya Kularatne
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Zhenfeng Zhao: Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus, New Zealand
Indrapriya Kularatne: Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus, New Zealand

Management, 2020, vol. 15, issue 4, 291-307

Abstract: The lack of employable-ready graduates has been an issue for New Zealand Tertiary education providers. Besides universities, Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPS) in New Zealand contribute a larger proportion of training employees to the job market. The objective of this study is to evaluate how the generic skills delivered by ITPS contribute to graduates employability skills. A literature review was carried out to investigate the most important generic skills for the present New Zealand job market. Data collected and analysed from three groups of participants. The results of this research provide an understanding of how graduates successfully acquire their generic skills during their studies in ITPS and the findings explain how graduates acquire and improve these generic skills. The results indicate that most graduates start their studies at ITPS with some generic skills, however, all of them agree that study at itps enhances these skills.

Keywords: generic skills; hard skills; soft skills; employability skills; thematic analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.26493/1854-4231.15.291-307

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