This article attempts to provide a conceptual framework on employability skills of business graduates based on in-depth reviews. Reviews for a period of 20 years between 1994 and 2013 have been assimilated and categorized into two propositions. | Employability skills a conceptual framework International Journal of Management IJM ISSN 0976 6502 Print ISSN 0976 - 6510 Online INTERNATIONAL Volume 5 Issue 7 July 2014 73-80 IAEME OF MANAGEMENT IJM ISSN 0976-6502 Print ISSN 0976-6510 Online IJM Volume 5 Issue 7 July 2014 pp. 73-80 IAEME http IAEME Journal Impact Factor 2014 Calculated by GISI EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK SamsonPackianathan1 Rajagopal Narayanan2 Research scholar of Karunya University Business School Karunya Nagar Karunya University Coimbatore -641 114 Tamilnadu India Associate Professor Karunya University Business School Karunya Nagar Karunya University Coimbatore -641 114 Tamilnadu India ABSTRACT The role of higher educational institutions in promoting employability skills to their graduates is getting momentum. The competition in the labour market is even tougher for management graduates owing to the widespread career options open to them. These skill deficiencies often referred to as graduate competency gap has been the empirical footage of many researches done globally and in India. This article attempts to provide a conceptual framework on employability skills of business graduates based on in-depth reviews. Reviews for a period of 20 years between 1994 and 2013 have been assimilated and categorized into two propositions. They are i Business graduates require specific employability skills 2 Curricular changes enhance employability skills of business school graduates. Based on these propositions a conceptual framework on employability skill has been developed. Keywords Employability Skills Business Graduates. INTRODUCTION A large number of business graduates land up in varied work arenas and retrospectively stare at the missing link between their collegiate education and work expectations. Literature highlights these dispositions as difficulty in practicing effective communication written oral inability to work in teams
