Effect of Career Orientation Types on Employability Skills of Selected Graduates of Three Universities of Economics

This study examined the graduates’ transition to employment of graduates attended at three universities of economics during Academic Years from 2010-2011 to 2015-2016. It focused to identify types of career orientation and employability skills perceived by them and to analyze how their career orientation types can affect their employability skills after their graduation. The study used following statistical tools: Frequency and Descriptive Analysis, Tests of Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Leven, Independent Samples, Welsh, and Pearson Correlation Coefficient. The study found that hesitation type of career orientation of graduates had highly employability skills constructed attitudes and valued their social network, friendship, general knowledge and experience through taking part in social network, sports, and art activities. Another finding was that if graduates had the higher perception of hesitation career orientation type in them, their personal and core skills of employability would be relatively higher