Integrating socio-digital skills in the industry 4.0 era for graduates' employability: an employers’ perspective
The technological changes brought by the fourth industrial revolutions heavily impacted business environments and created a perfect storm in the employment market, prompting a need to explore the implications of changes in job demands and skills requirements. The debate remains to focus on gradua...
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ASR Research India
2022
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Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/108455/1/108455_Integrating%20socio-digital%20skills.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/108455/ https://journalppw.com/index.php/jpsp/article/view/5115 |
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Summary: | The technological changes brought by the fourth industrial revolutions heavily impacted business
environments and created a perfect storm in the employment market, prompting a need to explore the
implications of changes in job demands and skills requirements. The debate remains to focus on
graduate skills and employability, increasingly robust competition with experienced and skilful
workers, changing skills due to technological changes. Identification of integration of skills is both
essential and difficult. Considering that Industry 4.0 is still in Malaysia's early stage, this research
intends to elucidate the exact integration of skills in the Industry 4.0 environment. This research
adopts a qualitative methodology to explore the employment trend in the Industry 4.0 landscape. A
qualitative research method is adopted, considering economies and labour-market experts do not yet
know the exact mix or level of skills that particular occupations will demand. The findings revealed
that employers value fresh graduates’ effort to integrate social and digital skills, leading to greater
employability opportunities. The graduates must be able to coherent narrative shows to influence and
convince the employer that they possess the right integration of skills to fit the organisation's culture
and goals. Future job demands allow graduates to gain employability and compete with experienced
candidates in a digital environment. What sets the graduates apart and gives them a competitive
advantage is constructing strong socio-digital skills. The graduates must be able to coherent narrative
shows to influence and convince the employer that they possess the right integration of skills to fit the
organisation's culture and goals. |
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