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Employability under the fourth industrial revolution
Economics and Sociology
  • Alexandrina Maria Pauceanu, Higher Colleges of Technology
  • Nada Rabie, Zayed University
  • Ayman Moustafa, British University in Dubai
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract

© 2020, Centre of Sociological Research. All rights reserved. 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.

Publisher
Centre of Sociological Research
Keywords
  • Employability,
  • Higher education,
  • The fourth industrial revolution,
  • UAE
Scopus ID
85091991252
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.14254/2071789X.2020/13-3/17
Citation Information
Alexandrina Maria Pauceanu, Nada Rabie and Ayman Moustafa. "Employability under the fourth industrial revolution" Economics and Sociology Vol. 13 Iss. 3 (2020) p. 269 - 283 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2071-789X" target="_blank">2071-789X</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/nada-rabie/1/