Work Readiness of Select Graduating Students of Mindanao State University Iligan Institute of Technology

Abstract

As thousands of students graduate each year, many find
themselves unemployed because of skills gaps that are
brought about by low work readiness levels. Work readiness
is defined as the collection of soft and hard skills that
emplayers require rom job applicants to be employed in a
specific field. Literature claims that skills gap is a result of
a variety of inherent factors in students, and a failure to
establish links between schools and companies to prepare
students with the right skills set currently demanded in the
workplace. In response, this paper studied the work
readiness levels of select graduating students from
Mindanao State University Iligan nstitute of Technology
(MSU-IIT) to investigate the presence of skills gaps with
respect to the graduating students' profile, and the
relationship between such gaps, and the ethnicity and sex of
the gradua ting students. Findings reveal that there are
significant differences in the required and perceived workreadiness levels of all Business Management graduating students \, including Visayan, Moro, male and feale, but not for any of the of the computer Studies graduating students. the findings also establish a relationship between the differences noted for all graduating students sample and their ethnicity. Results show that Visayan graduating students tend to have smaller differences or skills gaps, thus have work readiness levels, than Moro graduating students.