Self Perceived Attributes for Employment: A Study on Engineering Graduates

Employers view graduate’s achievements related to the subject discipline as important but not sufficient for them to be recruited. Achievements outside the boundaries of the subject discipline such as possession of practical knowledge, skills, mental and physical ability are generally considered to be important in the recruitment of graduates. This study investigates whether the independent variables, knowledge, skills and ability have strong positive correlation with the dependent variable that is confidence level of students in getting recruited. Two-hundred engineering final year students of 2013 passed outs were selected as respondents for the study. Hundred students belonged to private self financing engineering college affiliated to Government University and the other hundred were from Private engineering Deemed University. It can be concluded that irrespective of the type of institutions, students with better knowledge, skills and ability are highly confident of getting employed as compared to those graduates who are low on these attributes.