ICT Skills for Technical and Vocational Education Graduates' Employability

Abstract: Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) graduates preparedness to gain flexible employability skills that will enable them compete favourable into a dynamic labour market cannot be under estimated in the present Technological era. The challenges in the world of work as a result of the way ICT rapidly changes and considering its deployment in all aspect of economic activities as well as its sophistication, calls for necessary curriculum reorientation of any human resource preparation programme e.g. TVE. In view of that, products of TVE programmes are hereby challenged to possess ICT skills necessary for employment in the present dynamism in work. This paper review literature technically to highlight the challenges ahead of TVE graduates regarding acquisition of ICT-based employability skills. Specifically, the paper discusses concepts from journal articles, textbooks and conference proceedings; accessed via Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Library web portal (www.psz.utm.my). The review further explores the need for ICTs in TVE and recommended the procedures to be adopted in strengthening TVE curriculum to meet up with the global ICT skill challenges. Key words: ICT Technical Vocational Education and Graduates ’ employability