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Determinants of the employability of recent university graduates in the context of a developing country. Validation of a short instrument of 20 items.
Author(s)
García-Salirrosas, Elizabeth Emperatriz
Private University of the North
Flores-Gonzalez, Marcos Enrique
Date Issued
17 de julio de 2021
Type
Conference paper
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Series/Report No.
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Contained in
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Start Page
822
End Page
827
ISSN
2153-1633
ISBN
9781450377881
9781450385855
9781450314398
9781450396387
9781450390019
9781450390217
9781450348270
9781450381963
9781450322485
9781450348201
Abstract
The employability of recent college graduates has become a major concern globally. Studies carried out in developed countries have shown an operationalization in five dimensions of the employability construct; such as: 1) Occupational experience, 2) Anticipation and optimization, 3) Personal flexibility, 4) Corporate sense and 5) Balance. This study provides new contributions on these components by replicating [26] in a developing country, a quite different political, social and economic reality compared to other analyses. To achieve a good fit for the model, 2 items had to be eliminated, resulting in a shorter instrument consisting of only 20 items to evaluate the employability of this profile of people. The new model showed good convergent validity, however, the discriminant validity does not meet the necessary indicators for its compliance, and thus an exploratory factor analysis should be carried out, since it could be that the number of dimensions has reduced. It is also suggested to carry out more studies in order to corroborate or refute the data obtained in the present study.