Employability Skills: A Review

Abstract

The study highlights the significance of employability skills by reviewing various papers pertinent to employability skills. It explores different kinds of employability skills as perceived by employers like communication skills, team work skills, problem solving skills, emotional intelligence skills, self-assessment skills, leadership skills, computational skills, interpersonal skills, entrepreneurial skills, analytical skills, etc. The paper aims at bringing out the role of employability skills in shaping students’ career and emphasizes as to how possessing employability skills can help young graduates reach greater heights in their career. The study consolidates suggestions that can be followed by students to acquire the employability skills that are essential at workplaces.