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Achieving Employability of Students in a Challenging Environment

Achieving Employability of Students in a Challenging Environment. Dori Pavloska – Gjorgjieska, PhD MIT University Skopje. Situation. Source: World Bank, Eurostat. Questions. Which knowledge, skills, and competencies are required in the regional labour market?

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Achieving Employability of Students in a Challenging Environment

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  1. Achieving Employability of Students in a Challenging Environment Dori Pavloska – Gjorgjieska, PhD MIT University Skopje

  2. Situation Source: World Bank, Eurostat

  3. Questions • Which knowledge, skills, and competencies are required in the regional labour market? • Can higher educational institutions (HEIs) adjust their pedagogical concepts in order to meet the labour market requirements? • How should they do that?

  4. Methodology • Labour Market Research – job ads www.ofertapune.com (Kosovo), http://duapune.com/ (Albania), www.najdirabota.com.mk (Macedonia), www.nadjiposao.rs (Serbia) • Analysis of the needs for skills in the labour market (2013/2014) – Employment Agency of RM • Stakeholders meetings (focus groups) • Survey Questionnaire – graduated students

  5. Findings: Labour Market Research

  6. Findings: Labour Market Research

  7. Findings: Labour Market Research

  8. Findings: Labour Market Research

  9. Findings: Labour Market Research

  10. Findings: Stakeholder Meetings • Desirable Skills: IT, project writing, project management, raising funds, innovativeness • Links between educational institutions and companies • Creating an entrepreneurial mindset

  11. Findings: Survey Questionnaire • Employment - very often by internship companies or self-employment; • Obligatory internships - opportunity to gain knowledge, skills and competences and finally employment; • Most useful skills: project management, English language, communication and organizational skills, sales, marketing, promotion, teamwork, market research; • Career office - crucial in establishing and maintaining relationships with local companies and organizations.

  12. Analysis • There is demand for students with bachelor’s degrees with knowledge and skills in specific business and management areas. • Knowledge: trading, sales, management, business administration, marketing, finance, internationalization, law, economics, statistics, entrepreneurship, project management, market research; • Skills: IT, English language, communication, teamwork, organization, analysis, innovativeness, interpersonal skills, negotiation, project writing skills; • Competences: ability to solve real life problems • How to deliver such an education?

  13. Pedagogical concept • Conceptualization: Explicit knowledge processed through theory (in-class learning) • Experimentation: conceptual knowledge becomes grounded(in-lab learning) • Experience: practical application of tacit knowledge, reinforcing tacit knowledge gained from experimentation (in-field learning) • Reflection: brings inherent tacit knowledge to the surface (competence gaining)

  14. Conclusions • Combine explicit and tacit knowledge, theory and practice • Follow labor market needs • Strong career offices, dedicated to building stakeholders networks • Quality standards

  15. MIT UniversityCareer Center • Cooperation and regular communication with stakeholders – adapting curriculum (conceptualization); • Guest speakers, student projects (experimentation); • Internships (experience); • Reflective workshops (reflection).

  16. Thank you! dori.pavloska@mit.edu.mk

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