期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2020
卷号：10
期号：10
页码：917-924
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v10-i10/7798
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：This paper aims in understanding the graduates’ mindset on how they design their initial career, either as job seekers (work in public or private sector) or job creators. It is due to the fact that the graduate unemployability in rising, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. By using a qualitative research design, semi structured interviews were conducted to ten interviewees who were the fresh graduates from one of the tertiary institutions in Melaka, Malaysia. The results found that 80 percent of the interviewees prefer to be job seekers, while only 20 percent choose to be entrepreneurs. Despite of the rise in the gig economy, none of the interviewees have mentioned about working as a freelancer by engaging with gig works. These findings clearly indicate that the graduate unemployability will be worsened in the near future if the graduates’ mindsets remain the same. Hence, the tertiary educational providers should look at this matter by instilling new mindsets consistent with the new norm, and offering more courses related to the entrepreneurship and skills-oriented courses in the near future.
