Importance Of Employability In Malaysia

Introduction

In recent years, unemployment is an essential issue for every nation, particularly underdeveloped nation with a vast population. According to Malaysian Labor Force Survey, the definition of unemployment is the unemployed include individual who has working availability but did not work during a reference period. They might looking for work actively or vise versa in the period.High unemployment means that the nation do not have use their labor resources efficiently. Every year, a large crowd of graduates from Malaysian universities and college but in the end the rates of the graduates obtain a job is alarmingly low (The New Straits Times, 2013). The issue under debate and talk over at many symposium by a lot of parties such as the

In Malaysia, many employers are searching for graduates who are equilibrium, with good performance in college or university, accomplishment and possessing employability skills such as communication skills, problem solving skills, interpersonal skills and the ability to be elastic (Nurita et al., 2004).According to Lawrence(2002), these soft skills are basic tricks that demand over all,regardless of what job employee is executing.The graduates (60.48%) powerfully identify that soft skills which is a type of employability skills are important in hold down in the job market.According to Jobstreet.com (2011), an vocation agency, find out 5 top reasons of unemployment among the graduates in Malaysia which has included poor communication skills.Furthermore, according to Rosenberg.Heimler & Morote(2011), the graduates expect that they obtain essential skills and knowledge to meet the expectation of their employer in executing their jobs

In addition, according to Rosenberg, Heimler & Morote, (2011) manifested that the employability skills have effect on unemployment rate among graduates in Malaysia. On the other hand, there is a strong relationship between English proficiency and unemployment among fresh graduates. Furthermore,English proficiency is the most important element that affected unemployment among fresh graduates in Malaysia. Md Yassin, et al (2010) manifested that English proficiency has important influence unemployment among graduates in Malaysia.Lastly, the attitude of graduates has strong connection with the unemployment rate in Malaysia.In addition, not only the graduates in Malaysia had wrong attitude on employment, this problem also happened in the other nation.To solve this problem, the students suggested to internship program which can help them to improve their skills.Even if unemployment is not as acute as its looks as reported by The Star (2013, 23 October) as Malaysia is said to accomplish full employment as the unemployment rate is under 4 %. Future graduates should not neglect this issue as the number of