A STUDY ON EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS AMONG FINAL YEAR MBA GRADUATES IN COIMBATORE CITY 1 G.Gowsalya, 2 Dr.M.Ashok Kumar Abstract: Enhancing employability skills is considered to be the important task within any management institutes. Employers’ needs and the learners’ skill improving capabilities should be taken into account in formulating future skills assessments. As the market expectations of employers are different than what the skills are possessed by graduates. Hence this study have been conducted with the objectives to study the employability skill for final year MBA Graduates and find the factors of employability skill for them. An incidental non probabilistic sample of 104 management graduates from a group of assorted management institutes was identified. Employability skill questionnaire was developed and administered. Four independent Factors have been identified to make a significant impact on employability skills of management graduates. They are Self-Understanding, General Management and work culture, Leadership skills and Computer skills. The study concludes that institutes should work on the path of developing above factors of graduates that will best serve the future era. Keywords: Management Institutes, Employability Skill, Corporate Expectations. 1. INTRODUCTION Management education in India has witnessed a phenomenal growth, from just 200 MBA colleges in the early nineties to around 33000 MBA colleges in 2013, producing nearly 35 million management graduates every year (Aspiring Minds; MBA-National Employability Report 2014). However, since 2010, the global recession, successive slowdowns and unpredictable markets, forced the corporate world to go slow and cautious while hiring fresher’s specifically management graduates. Thus, the extended gap in demand and supply of MBAs intensified the competition for induction level job opportunities. 47% Graduates In India Are Unemployable for any job: Aspiring Minds’ National Employability Report (2013), Graduates Maximum of 35.95% graduates employable in clerical/ secretarial roles; less than 3% for Corp Communication, Accounting roles,40% of employable graduates are beyond top 1 1*Ph.D Research Scholar, Department of Management Studies and Research, Karpagam University, Coimbatore. 2**Research Supervisor Prof& Head Department of Management Studies and Research, Karpagam University, Coimbatore. 2