Pervasive skills and accounting graduates' employment prospects: Are South African employers calling for pervasive skills when recruiting?

What employers look for when recruiting the unemployed and inactive : skills , characteristics and qualifications

Welfare recipients' job skills and employment prospects.

The welfare reform goal of moving mothers who rely on welfare into private-sector employment cannot be achieved only by changes in public policy. Employment rates reflect the job qualifications of individuals, obstacles to work outside the home, the attractiveness of available jobs, and the capacity of the labor market to absorb new workers at particular skill levels. This article examines how ...

Accounting Employers’ Expectations - The Ideal Accounting Graduates

This research examined what accounting employers are seeking in their ‘ideal’ accounting graduate and sought to provide clarification on the ‘expectation gap’ between what accounting employers require in their graduates, and the skills these graduates are exhibiting. Adopting a qualitative research method, this research paper draws on semi-structured interviews conducted face-to-face with parti...

South African ICT Skills Deficiency

Information Communication Technology (ICT) is part of everyday life and the skills needed are quickly becoming a prerequisite for daily life. There is a dire shortage of ICT skills in South Africa and any attempt to circumvent this problem creates an even greater urgency. Several reports and much research have been conducted to establish the extent of the problem and many proposals and initiati...

Employers’ Needs for Computer Science, Information Technology and Software Engineering Skills among New Graduates

Graduates of computer science programs often lack skills that employers desire among software developers. These include, for example, weaknesses in the areas of collaboration, communication, and software testing. Further research can help to refine this list by providing insight into additional skills that are of rising or regional importance. This paper therefore presents a study aimed at unco...