Called the American Diploma Project, it found that 60percentt of employers rated graduates' skills as only "fair" or "poor".
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, said the sector recognised complaints from some employers about graduates' skills, and argued that some of this was down to schooling.
Law graduates' skills would also come in very handy in human resources management, accountancy, the patent agency, trading standards, the police service and advice work, Margaret Holbrough, a careers adviser at Graduate Prospects, pointed out in the piece.
However, there is a widening gap between graduates' skills and employer expectations (Bailey and Mitchell 2006; McGuinness and Sloane 2011).
The goal isn't to improve laboratory management per se; it is, rather, to give graduates skills that make them more attractive to potential employers in all sectors.
But, given the possibility that many other jobs outside these two groups are now utilising graduates' skills, for a classification of graduate jobs, it is necessary to go beyond the traditional notion of high status.
Graduates' skills and higher education: The employers' perspective.
Finally, state governments should design an enabling environment for utilizing the skills of the graduates optimally, some of which are mentioned in the " Suggestions to improve the utilization of the graduates' skills acquired during the PGDPHM programme" section.
After a survey of medical graduates' skills found a lack of confidence in developmental assessment, a program was introduced with the broad aims of increasing medical student confidence and respect for the parents' role in childhood developmental assessment.
It has been argued that this method is preferable because it identifies graduate skill requirements "objectively" via the market signal of wages.
