Enhancing Graduate Teachers Employability in the 21st Century through Additional Skills Mix

There is a growing concern over the ever-increasing numbers of unemployed graduate teachers on the labour market. At the current pace we are going, if nothing radical takes place, there is a possibility for the teaching profession to suffer a great risk of extinction or the profession itself losing value and relevancy altogether. It has been commonly observed that the skills that are being imparted during the graduate education programs may not be enough. Graduate teachers do not have additional skills that would enable them have an added advantage to get employed beyond the classroom environment. This limitation has greatly contributed to high levels of unemployment on the labour market amongst the graduate teachers. The aim of the study was to establish whether there were any additional employability skills amongst the graduate teachers. The study employed a mixed methods research design. Data was collected using both probabilistic and non-probabilistic methods. It was established that graduate teachers lacked additional skills for enhanced employability. The study therefore recommended for both upskilling and reskilling of graduate teachers’ education.