Employer reputation and internship programmes are at the heart of Taylor’s University and its students to expose them to the industry of their course.
AS Malaysia moves into a higher skill level workforce, youths need to prepare for a variety of roles in a future that is being transformed by digitisation and automation. While it is difficult to accurately predict available jobs in the future, a good indicator is the current trends to predict skill types graduates need to possess by the time they enter the industry.
Occupations relying on people skills, to name the least, have increased significantly and seen shifts in employment patterns where graduates now need broad capabilities – in order to be flexible and more entrepreneurial than in the past. Higher education institutions have an edge in enabling students’ to develop deep knowledge, while cultivating the skills needed to secure their future employment. Therefore, it is integral to ensure that students have the right models of education to suit a range of interests and career aspirations.
