Dr. Engr. Md. Sakawat Ali

E-mail: sakawat_ali@yahoo.com

Our life today is based on one corner stone, Skills. Skills shape people and their societies. A Skills professional constantly improves our world with the power of Skills. Skills is one's asset, skilled manpower is asset of a country. Low-Skills low productivity & higher-Skills higher productivity. Better Skills, better jobs. The knowledge and Skills has become the currency of future. Skills is like healthcare. Most of the TVET institutions in Bangladesh are providing technical Skills only. So TVET graduates are becoming jobseekers. In this context TVET institutions should provide Soft Skills, Employability Skills & Entrepreneur Skills along with the technical Skills. Then the TVET graduates can also be service provider. To enhance the image of TVET in home and abroad, there is no alternative to employability Skills. It is said that 'Technical Skills, may get you the job, But Soft Skills can make you or break you as an Employer or Entrepreneur. This paper analyzed the various types of employability skills and the role of employability skills in employment in home and abroad.

Key Words: Employability Skills, Technical Skills