Graduates’ Employability, Exit Evaluation and Employers’ Feedback

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are considered to play a significant role in developing, shaping and enriching the acquired education of students. At present, the spiral continuum of teaching- learning process is deemed necessary to achieve the educational goals of the Philippines. Using the Glassman theory which is a functional framework in education, labor sector, and market industry relationship, an interplay exists between and among the students, teacher’s methodologies, and learning environment context that produced graduates who are responsive in the challenges that one faced towards his employment. Said institutional products had truly embraced and instilled within them the appropriate knowledge, skills and core values that they had learned. Mentioned indicators were also evident in their respective workplaces and are contributory in achieving the mission of the University. Hence; they carried the best practices in attaining quality service for the common good of the people that they are serving. Using the purposive sampling, this study had described the Infanta Campus graduates’ profile and employment data. Involved as respondents are the graduates per se and the employers of Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEEd), Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSE) major in Social Studies and Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (BSA). Further, to improve the services along different areas an exit evaluation survey was administered to address its weak points as the case may be. Quality measurement is a requisite to prove the curriculum relevance; thus; gathering the employers’ assessment using a feedback instrument is given top priority to meet the needs and standards of one’s workplace. It was revealed that they are highly satisfied with the different services that they received from their institution which means that the service providers possess the appropriate technical- know-how and are academically equipped in performing their respective functions as reflected on the evaluation result of the respondents. On the other hand, employers hire graduates who possessed appropriate eligibility and show competence in accomplishing assigned tasks and leadership skills. This implies that organizations are outcomes-based driven in hiring applicants.

Keywords – agriculture. curriculum, degree of satisfaction, education, employability, feedback