International Journal for Research in Engineering Application & Management (IJREAM) ISSN : 2454-9150 Vol-04, Issue-03, June 2018 763 | IJREAMV04I0339208 DOI : 10.18231/2454-9150.2018.0417 © 2018, IJREAM All Rights Reserved. Promoting Factors of Employability Skills T. Selvam* *Assistant Professor, Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Tirupattur – 635601, India Email-tselvamsw@gmail.com Abstract: Promoting factors mean the factors that help students to gain and enhance their employability skills. Range of factors has been identified through this study. This study discusses promoting factors which were obtained from the participating students. Promoting factors and its corresponding promoted skills have been explained in the study along with its magnitude. The promoting factors are taking up responsibility, self interest, participating in sports, college education system, reading books, being confident, joint family system, participation in stage programmes, group experiences, family economic conditions, involvement and commitment, industrial interactions, participating in co-curricular activities, peer influences and supports, writing habit, parents’ guidance, participation in educational tours, facilities at home, leading activities, facilities available at college, creative tendency, special training, observation of events. Keywords — Employability skills, promoting factors, employability attributes, motivating factors and encouraging factors. I. INTRODUCTION Employability skills are a set of skills which are required to get an employment. The present study discuses list of promoting factors which are helping the respondents in acquisition of employability skills. The study carried out among the post graduate students who are studying in the Arts and Science Colleges in the Vellore district of Tamil Nadu. The opinion and experience of the respondents have been recorded and presented in the study. The findings of this particular study would help to design activities and programmes to inculcate and enhance the employability skills in a systematic way. II. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Narayanan (2013) Manpower requirement will be 117.2 million by 2020. Deccan Chronicle (2014) 14% students are considered for suitable jobs. Chaturvedi (2013) 47% graduates are unemployable for any job. These facts show that graduates are lacking in employability skills. Therefore it is need of the hour to help graduates to become employable. To make them employable, there could be factors which facilitate the graduates to acquire employability skills. Hence, it is important to understand the promoting factors of employability skills. III. REVIEW OF LITERATURE Hillage & Pollard (1998) Employability is an ability of students to get a job after graduation. It is also concerned with enhancing skills, knowledge, attitudes and abilities of the students. Robinson (2000) Employability skills are basic and necessary skills for getting, keeping, and doing well on a job. Gravells (2010) Employability skills are the skills which help the people employable. Selvam (2017) Employability skills are written communication, verbal communication, planning & organizing, teamwork, numeracy, adaptability, continuously learning, and technology using skill. Dania et.al (2014) conducted a study among secondary school students and found that factors such as participation in industrial training, career developmental activities (like visiting industries, attending, career talk, attending a career fair, etc.,), extracurricular activities, and leadership experiences are helping the students in enhancing their employability skills. There is no study addressed beyond these factors what are the other factors that helps the students to improve their employability skills. Therefore the current study attempted to bring out the list of promoting factors. IV. OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study is to list out the promoting factors of employability skills among the post graduate students who study art or science degree. V. METHODOLOGY It is an explorative study. The operational definition of Employability skills is, a group of skills which are written communication, verbal communication, planning and organizing, teamwork, numeracy, adaptability, continuous learning, and technology using skill. The study carried out among post graduate students. The field of the study was Vellore district of Tamil Nadu. Data have been collected form 507 students. The samples were identified through systematic random sampling method. Questionnaire was used as tool to collected data. The questionnaire had eight parts. Each part refers one skill of employability. Open ended questions were asked in the each part to discover the promoting factors of employability skills.