Assessing the Employability Skills in the Profession of Architecture with Reference to Fresh Graduates and Employers in Maharashtra, India
Journal: Architecture Engineering and Science DOI: 10.32629/aes.v6i2.3938
Abstract
The National Educational Policy came into effect in 2020 and is considered to play a vital role in developing skill-based education, which will help improve the employability of the graduating students. The paper discusses the perceptions of fresh graduates (i.e., employees) and Employers (i.e., professionals) towards skill development for employment through Architecture Education through the primary data collected. The study is about finding the missing links between employers' expectations towards fresh architecture graduates who graduated in the last 3 years from architectural colleges in Maharashtra. The questionnaire was developedon 5 5-point Likert scale,and the responses were collected from 175 students through Google Forms from the state of Maharashtra. The same data were collected from 289 employers through a set of questionnaires to understand the actual scenario of the industry and the requirements of the essential employability skills to be possessed by the fresh graduates to get them employed in the firms. The data was gathered and statistically analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).
Keywords
architectural education, employers, fresh graduates, employability skills, India
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