GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS DEVELOPMENT THROUGH REFLECTION AND SELF-ASSESSMENT USING A MOBILE APP
Abstract
As university students' journey through their studies, their minds are fixed on a common end goal, that of graduating with flying colours and landing their dream job. They aim for achieving the top grades and focus on their studies, assignments, and exams. In this journey, the students often overlook or underestimate the importance of developing some skills that employers may consider important for their jobs. In this paper, we present a prototype of a mobile application that stimulates university students to reflect upon their experiences and assess the skills they may develop that would help them towards their dream job. The mobile application is designed to support students to recognize employability skills, conduct a selfassessment of their skills, document their skills in terms of the experiences that contributed to the development of the skills and to provide learning resources for improving skills. This work is conducted within the EU ERASMUS+ program.