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needed to be taken care of. If our
education system can give better
room for development of required
attitudes and soft skills, employa-
bility can be further improved.
Anyway, these soft skills have
become life skills more than ever
and need for survival. The suc-
cess rate of the graduate can also
be increased and they will be able
seek foreign opportunities and
survive in any difficult situation.

Evaluating attitudes and soft
skills are vital for organizations
as well as individuals, but it is
always challenging. The research
indicate that rigorous recruitment
strategy is associated with firms’
success and effectiveness. Succe-
ssful companies follow a rigorous
recruitment mechanism in order
to scrutinize and select the candi-
date with the right attitudes and
skills, especially for the catego-
ries of executive, management
and fresh graduate who will be
taking over higher responsibili-
ties in future.
Figure 1: Soft Skills to enhamce graduate employability Employers usually like to invest
Source: Succi & Canovi (2019) in specific skills, but not in gener-
ic skills and believe that educa-
tion system of the country should
address these issues. On the other
soft skills and good attitudes get hand, some scholars believe that
the preference in the interviews, industry need to take care of skills
and there is a higher chance of required for their industries. We
being successful in the future. need to understand these gaps &
mismatches and find remedies.
Our parents also need to under- For this, industry, academics and
stand this and put extra effort to policy makers all should work
develop these areas starting from together according to a national
the young age. The students duri- policy.
ng their stay at universities, they
need to further sharpen and devel- Reference
op them. Our university system is Succi, C., & Canovi, M. (2019). Soft
doing a great job and our gradu- skills to enhance graduate employabil-
ates and scholars are performing ity: comparing students and employ-
well in foreign contexts. Howev- ers’ perceptions. Studies in Higher
er, there is a larger crowd that Education, 45(9), 1834-1847.

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