Employability of Business and Computer Management Graduates of one Higher Education Institution in the Philippines

The study aimed to determine the graduate’s employability of the Bachelor of Science in Business and Computer Management from 2005-2010. It identified the employers’ perspective of how LPU- graduates in the respective jobs assigned to them. Descriptive method was utilized in the study. The employability of Bachelor of Science in Business and Computer Management (BSBCM) revealed that 90.32 percent of the graduates are locally employed in their field of specialization, having regular employment status in the manufacturing firms holding clerical positions but pursuing Master’s degree hoping to be promoted after years of relevant experience. As employer’s feedback, it was noted that the BSBCM graduates have high performance in human skills as evidenced by their high interpersonal relationship with their superiors and officemates. Communication skill, information technology skill, human relation and critical thinking skills are found very useful in their job placement while entrepreneurship skill obtained the least response. As to work values, love for God and honesty and love for truth were relevant among graduates. All professional subjects are considered by the BSBCM graduates to be relevant which include Programming Fundamentals, Data Base Management and HTML Presentation skills. The curriculum of the General education subjects posted importance on Languages. School related factors to job placement in terms of faculty and instruction is the mastery of teacher’s subject matter and their quality of instruction.

Keywords: Business and Computer Management, employability, communication skill