The POTENTIAL ACTORS FACE-to-FACE for EMPLYABILITY of GRADUATES: WHAT DO THEY THINK and WHAT CAN THEY NOT REGULATE?

Ruizan Mekvabidze; Roman Smietanski; Leszek Karczewski

Ruizan Mekvabidze LEPL Gori State University, Georgia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-0137
Roman Smietanski Opole University of Technology, Poland http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9255-5665
Leszek Karczewski Opole University of Technology, Poland http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2538-7056

Abstract

The research paper is based on seeking the interrelationship of points of view between academics, graduates, and employers and is attempting to analyze the main aspects of graduate employability skills development according to the competitive labor markets’ demands in a dynamic labor market and considers an approach to find new higher education trends that will form graduates' skills for their future carrier and become a good seeker to the competitive job market. There are suggested approaches:

Classifying the main approaches for exploration of the teaching process modeling study;
Developing integration knowledge and competencies of research by subject area of specialization;
Graduates’ employability skills development to meet tomorrow’s demand;
Understanding of demand and supply of employability skills between Higher Education and Employers.

The central to the achievement of result is an innovative approach to the challenge of change study programs through the involvement of research components in the subject area of specialisation, which will allow Higher Education Institutions responding to gaps in the supply of skilled graduates to meet high-growth competitive job market needs.

Keywords: Employability skills, graduates and the job market, the teaching of research components in practice, Higher Education and employers.