GRADUATES’ COMPETENCE ON EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS AND JOB SATISFACTION

Ensuring graduate employability reputation is considered an important mission of the Bataan Peninsula State University. The ultimate goal of the institution is to know that the graduates are productively engaged in the field. Therefore, graduate employability and competence development around the world depend on a strong sense of innovation and collaboration practices implemented in higher education. This study helps the university to assess competencies of BPSU DC graduates and determine what aspects of the education program need to be improved. The researchers used quantitative method using frequency, percentage, weighted mean, and Pearson r in analyzing the data. The study reveals that 61% of the respondents are already permanent in their designated school, mostly in public school, they have strong agreement on the indicators provided under employability skills, and they have slight agreement on the job satisfaction. The respondents agreed that they like people on their working environment. However, the data shows that there is no enough evidence to claim that the association between variables is significant given a p-value of less than .05 alpha, thus, the study revealed that there is no significant relationship between graduates’ competence, job satisfaction and employability skills. Similarly, there is no significant difference in employability skills and job satisfaction when grouped according to the job status and type of school. The researchers firmly believed that the result of this study would be useful to the university in assisting students the acquisition and competencies in preparation for their employability skills.