The Communication Skills Employers Value

Employers’ perception on engineering, information and communication technology (ICT) students’ employability skills

This article is based on the findings of a survey of employers having Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) engineering and ICT students undergoing industrial training at their organisations. The study seeks to explore the employers’ perceptions of the employability skills that technical students need to possess, as well as assessing the employers’ level of satisfaction with the students’ ...

Health information technology knowledge and skills needed by HIT employers.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the health information technology (HIT) workforce knowledge and skills needed by HIT employers. METHODS Statewide face-to-face and online focus groups of identified HIT employer groups in Austin, Brownsville, College Station, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Lubbock, San Antonio, and webinars for rural health and nursing informatics. RESULTS HIT employers reported needing an ...

Communication Skills

Determining the economic value of disease management programs for employers.

report issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on October 13, 2004 set in motion a national debate on the economic value of disease management (DM) programs and sent shock waves through the industry with the statement that “there was insufficient evidence to conclude that disease management programs can generally reduce overall health spending.”1 The Congressional Budget Office left lit...

DeVIL - Determining the value of information literacy for employers

1.1 This paper 1 reports on a project, DeVIL (Determining the Value of Information Literacy) that has aimed to identify quantitative and qualitative data which demonstrate the benefits of developing information literacy (IL) in workplace settings; and to assess the return on investment (ROI) of such initiatives. What value is added by employing and training individuals that have appropriate and...