Perspective Relationship Between Employers and Graduates of Public and Private Higher Education Institution

Abstract

Graduates of higher education institutions, whether they are from public or private university, have two basic problems: finding the job rewarding and developing their career. Choosing a career, developing it and getting sufficient earnings require the continuous effort of individuals. Individual development is a critical process whose most powerful contributions to the organization are to do with productivity, performance, knowledge development of society and organization progress. Its greatest benefits for individuals are to do with personal competence, growth, adaptability and continuous employability. Employability of graduates would be checked as soon as they accomplish their study. At the end of long–term study higher education institutions evaluate them by asking the three selection questions: - What they know about employers, - What they know themselves and their preference, and - Their job seeking contacts to employer. The main objective of this paper was to look into the states of research in private and public higher education institutions with particular attention on perspective relationship between employers and graduates of private and public higher education institution in Ethiopia, especially between Addis Ababa University and St. Mary’s University collage. The study is basically focused on descriptive and analytic methods based on literature review and questionnaire selected from 48 respondents out of 200 samples distributed by non probability sampling technique.