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Predictors of Graduates’ Professional Identity

Girly H. Naval & Gehana D. Lamug
Volume 4 Issue 1, July 2023

The study describes a new model for post-graduate professional identity as Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in the Philippines conform to the demands and industry standards through curriculum design and development. At the utmost, academic institutions aim to contribute to the competence of the graduates resulting in a laudable professional identity that is unique to them. The model is the product of the assessment of the master’s programs’ relevance to industry demand and the identity of the graduates through the predictor variables: hard skills, soft skills, knowledge, training and education, quality of work performance, and work-related values. These variables, as constructs of professional identity, were assessed by purposively selected local employers in Camarines Norte. Upon face-to-face interview, a consensus of most employer-respondents was revealed. Employers believed that the master’s degree programs are congruent to the industry needs with an average weighted mean of 2.33; and their employees, who are now master’s degree holders, are perceived to be considerably fitted to higher work position if the opportunity warrants. Graduates’ professional identity revealed an overall weighted mean of 4.53 which as to employers’ perspective, employees upon earning the degree had displayed high level of competence in all the given predictor variables. Further, it is very significant to consider that hard skills, knowledge, training, and quality of work performance positive predictors of professional identity and thus depict high curriculum relevance.

Professional Identity, Curriculum Relevance, Competencies, Predictor Variables, Employers

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