A comparative study of employability skills with reference to employers of public and private sector

The main objective is to identify the employability skills required by public and private companies and to conduct a comparative evaluation of how the public and private sector employers perceive the employability skills. Fourteen variables that make up employability skills based on past research were examined in this study. Data were collected through questionnaire on online survey mode that intended to gauge employers’ perceptions. The sample respondent had taken employers from public and private sector. The research instrument was given to two academic experts and one industrial expert to validate Questionnaire. The findings revealed that questionnaire design is reliable with Chronbach’s alpha α =0.863. The results of this study revealed that public and private companies’ employers placed similar importance in terms of the rating of employability skills.