The role of university-industry partnership for enhancing graduate employability Mr Reda Allal EMMAG ERASMUS Final Conference Valencia University, 2016

1. GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY
AND INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP
MR RÉDA ALLAL,ALGERIA
EMMAG FINAL CONFERENCE
VALENCIA, SPAIN,APRIL 2016

2.  In today’s context of heightened global competition, diverse workforce and
operating margins, Human Resources function needs to have a strategic focus in
delivering tangible value to the Business.
 Employees are strategic partners who help in building organization. Companies
are very focused on type of employees they are hiring. There are plenty of jobs
in the market and companies spend huge money on getting right kind of
candidate for themselves. At the same time, there are many students who pass
out from various education programs and ready to get into jobs. But still, many
of them do not get a job. It is because company feels that these students are
not employable.
INTRODUCTION

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45%
Young Workforce Gaduates
Unemployment Rates 2015
Algeria Morocco Tunisia
UNEMPLOYMENT ISSUE – MAGHREB REGION

4. UNEMPLOYMENT ISSUE – MENA
The educated category
in the Arab countries
represents 40 percent
of the total
unemployed

5. UNEMPLOYMENT ISSUE – EUROPE

6. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Technical skill ALONE
does not make someone
competitive in the job
market New generation
of highly skilled
graduates
Communication skills
Team/interpersonal skills
Problem solving
Quantitative reasoning
Business process knowledge
Project management
…

7. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Today's job candidates must be able to
collaborate, communicate and solve
problems – skills developed mainly
through social and emotional
learning (SEL). Combined with
traditional skills, this social and
emotional proficiency will equip
students to succeed in the evolving
digital economy

8. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

9. TOP 10 SKILLS

10. FUTURE READY

11. THE ROLE OF HEI
“Is it higher
education’s mission to
prepare people for
the skills they need in
an up-to-date fashion
for the 21st century?”
The role of universities
is not just in terms of
preparing graduates for
the labor market, but
also in terms of
developing the full,
integrated personality
of an individual
Santiago Iniguez
Dean IE Business School, Madrid

12. Universities must face the challenges
of teaching or encouraging
entrepreneurship otherwise, and the
difficulty of adapting education
systems quickly enough to keep pace
with rapidly changing labor markets
THE ROLE OF HEI

13. DIAGNOSTIC

14. DIAGNOSTIC
It takes between 12 and 36
months for new corporate
executives to be
operational and therefore
profitable
They believe that
universities should
do more
to enhance
employability skills
Over 90% of managers
are struggling to find
qualified managers and
21% of them believe that
the level of staff
qualifications is insufficient

15. Employers are looking for more skills and fast payback from their employees
 Work productively on a diverse team (76%)
 Oral/written communication skill (73%)
 Think critically and analytically (73%)
 Resourcefulness in solving problems (70%)
 Understand and communicate quantitatively (60%)
 Integrity & ethics (56%)
 Understand global cultures and values (53%)
DIAGNOSTIC

16. DIAGNOSTIC
 Overqualified job seekers
 Lack of availability of middle managers
 Only 5% of academic degrees are professional
 Programmes becomes obsolete
 Inappropriateness of training for the
employment market
 Employers need “job ready” candidates

17. We must identify the gap
between delivery and
expectation among
institutes and companies
to making student
employable
DIAGNOSTIC

18. DIAGNOSTIC

19. TEACHING FOR EMPLOYABILITY

20. TEACHING FOR EMPLOYABILITY

21. TEACHING FOR EMPLOYABILITY
Universities must
produce graduates
who are ready for
any workplace

22. HOWTO BUILD SKILLS?

23. STUDENT MOBILITY

24. MOBILIY & EMPLOYABILITY - ERASMUS

25. MOBILIY & EMPLOYABILITY - ERASMUS
Erasmus students
increase their
advantage over non-
mobile students by
42%
“If you study or train abroad,
you are more likely to
increase your job prospects”

26.  The survey results indicate that 92% of employers are looking for
personality traits found to be enhanced by study or training abroad,
such as tolerance, confidence, problem-solving skills, curiosity, knowing
one’s strengths/weaknesses, and decisiveness.
 The report adds, “Tests before and after exchange periods
abroad reveal that Erasmus students show higher values for
these personality traits, even before their exchange starts; by
the time they come back, the difference in these values
increases by 42% on average, compared with other students.”
MOBILIY & EMPLOYABILITY - ERASMUS

27. MOBILIY & EMPLOYABILITY
“Mobilizing talent … is as much
part of the Fourth Industrial
Revolution … as water and steam
were in the first”
“For regulators and governments,
structural reforms to remove
barriers and bureaucracy and the
simplification of labour markets
remain paramount”
Alain Dehaze, CEO of Adecco Group
WEF Annual Meeting, Davos from 20 to 23 January 2016,
under the theme Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution

28. INDUSTRY – UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP

29. Working with industry leaders help to:
 Define competencies
 Curricula development to improve undergraduate and
graduate studies
 Student internships
 Continue to meet regularly to review the competencies
established, ensuring that they stay relevant and up-to-date
 Share experiences and best practices with students
 Organize business solving camps in universities
 Suggest topics for applied research projects
 Entrepreneurship education
INDUSTRY – UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP

30. INDUSTRY – UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP
Chambers of Commerce
and Industry help to
stimulate this partnership
Businesses and
universities must
share responsibility

31. INDUSTRY – UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP … IN PRACTICE !

32. WORKSHOPS & ACTIVITIES

33. ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

34. ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

35. ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

36. ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

37. SPEED COACHING

38. SUCCESS STORIES - SEMINARS

39. STEERYOUR CAREER / BE INNOVATIVE CAMP #INJAZ

40. INJAZ COMPANY PROGRAM

41.  In the globalization context and competitiveness, the role of a university is further enhanced.
University is no longer confined to traditional roles. Universities need to interact with others in
order to be relevant and progressive.
 Symbiosis relationships between the university and industry are very significant because the
relationship between those two can foster economic development of a nation and enhance graduates
employability
 Responsibility for filling this gap in knowledge must be shared between businesses and universities,
with awareness on both sides of the complexities of the other.
CONCLUSION

42. THANKYOU …
Réda ALLAL
reda.allal@gmail.com
about.me/reda.allal