Employability of Postgraduate Scholars Studying in Junagadh Agricultural University

Employability refers to a person's capability of gaining initial employment, maintaining employment and obtaining new employment if required. In simple terms employability is about capability of getting and keeping fulfilling work. Individuals enter higher education mainly to improve their future employment opportunities, but a degree no longer secures employment. Companies expect apart from academic capabilities, additional qualities and competencies of the individual that will facilitate the most successful and speedy transition from higher education to workplace. Junagadh Agricultural University with the number one focus for the year 2030 of “endowing the quality of education to produce globally competitive graduates and postgraduate in different areas of agriculture and allied sector” has not carried out this kind of research on the employability of the postgraduate scholars. Considering this fact, the present study was conducted to measure employability of postgraduate scholars. The study was undertaken using purposively sampling of 120 postgraduate research scholars studying in any semester and subjects at College of Agriculture, Junagadh Agricultural University. In this research, to study and measure the employability of postgraduate scholars, fourteen indicators based on the opinion of experts and review of literature was collected. The collected data were classified, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted in order to make the findings meaningful. The statistical measures such as frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and co-efficient of correlation were used in the study. Majority (83.33%) of the postgraduate scholars associated with employability had above average to high level of overall employability.