Sport Science Graduates’ Employability in the Job Market

Abstract

Present study was designed to investigate the sport science graduates’ employability, which consisted of graduates’ employment circumstances and learning, self-attitude toward responsibility, and soft skills in work life in the job market. In order to justify the objectives in elaborating these dimensions in the overall graduate’s employability level, the mailed survey method using the Graduates Employability Questionnaire (Abdul Razak Ahmad in Opinion: the unemployable Malaysian, 2005) [1] was adopted. The results showed that every dimension of the GEQ with (a) level of employment circumstances/learning had a mean score of 3.35; (b) level of self-attitude toward responsibility which stated self-willingness to take up responsibility without interference of third part as well as other characteristic, had a mean score of 3.89; and (c) level of soft skills in work life had a significant mean score of 3.99. As far as determination of selected dimensions of graduates employability of sport science is concerned, the descriptive statistics profiled respondents according to gender, ethnicity, university attended, monthly income, job search mechanism, status and sectors of employment as well as length of time before they gaining their first job with inferential results of personal attributes and qualities and showed contributively statistics (r = 0.608, N = 184, p < 0.01; and r = 0.428, N = 184, p < 0.01), respectively. These results indicate that there was a moderate correlation or influence on graduate employability at the 0.05 level of significance.