On the 25thSeptember 2019, at 2 o’clock we are having the first class of our subject It was class of Graduate Success Attribute (UHMT1012) at lecture hall 1 with Dr Marlina Ali from faculty of social science and humanities . The first thing that we learn was about Employability and also soft skill, employability is the skills and abilities that allow fresh graduate from university to be employed and easy to get hired. Having an extra skills is important to get easy to be hired because not just you who want the same job that you want, the biggest reasons why fresh graduate don’t get hired is because they making a deal for salaries is unrealistic like student who get hired for the first time want to get more money so they want to paid more. Its hard for company for raise their money because maybe the CEO or the manager doesn’t know much about your performance in their company and poor English language is the second reasons why company don’t hire fresh student, because some of company have relation with foreign company. However student who have leadership can easily get hired because company needs employees to lead or make a significant result so the company not wasting their money to others who hasn’t have this skills.
In the class we made a partner to discuss what is employability skill for us, and my team came up with the employability is skills that fresh student should have to make an easy way to them to be hired, after that the lecture asked a question for individual, the question was is employability is similar to soft skill. My answer to that question was basically I think that soft skill is in the employability skills but maybe that need for working in a company to work as individual or as a group such as communication skill, teamwork, problem solving, self-management and other things to make fresh graduate is different to others so they will get hired.
Lecture gave us a percentage about lack of soft skills fresh graduate from local university, it shown that 81% are the communication skills, employee who has this skill would be the first who get hired by the company as I said because English is the international language so employee that can use English as their language is better. The second was the critical skills, because some company often faced a problem that should be solve fast to prevent other problems exist.
In this subject we will learn a few skill which are communication skill, thinking skill, scholarship. Leadership, team working skill and many others. Communication skill are not only focus on how good we communicate with other people but it also the ability to convey ideas in writing clearly, effectively and comprehensible, to deliver ideas orally clearly, effective and comprehensible manner and also the ability to listen actively and respond accordingly. After we know a few things about it the lecture gave us several question regarding the sub the we had learned that day. So we made a group with 2 people and we had to login to the web which is quizz. In that website we are given with 10 question that was about lecture name, the employability, soft skill and other things, if we got all correct or the highest score among our friends, the lecture will give extra mark or point. Reveka who got the highest score for that quiz, so she and her partner got extra mark. At 4 pm the class was over and the lecture told us to make reflection for our meeting at least 2 pages and will be submitted in the e-learning and after we went to the our kolej.