Employability of Humanities Graduates in Bhutan: An Examination of Graduates’ Perceptions

With the distressing increase in graduate unemployment in Bhutan, many philosopher have looked into the causes, implications, and potential resolutions to Bhutan's unemployment issues. However, in Bhutan, assorted references have been fashioned to individual majors and courses when resolving students' employment rank. As a result, the employability status of undergraduates in humanities majors is a silver area, exceptionally in Bhutan. There is much speculation around the recruitment prospects of a student enduring humanities courses, with family often naming the humanities courses in Bhutanese colleges as too broad and repetitious. Therefore, this study examines the employability understanding of the humanities graduates in Bhutan and the factors providing to their unemployment. A non-odds sampling procedure, named a snowball savoring technique, was employed to accumulate data from 316 arts graduates through a structured questionnaire. The verdicts reveal that employability depends on differing factors in the way that academic performance, integrated courses, work occurrences, and skills collected while studying. The study also climaxes the skill disparity problem in higher education organizations and recommends bearing work-ready graduates. Despite the students' enthusiasm for the arts course, their employability prospects in the field are doubtful after graduation on account of the mismatch 'tween the course content and the jobs in the market. In order to address this issue, the study advises that universities and colleges mix practical and work-ready programs into their courses to enable graduates to gain the necessary employability abilities. Additionally, universities and companies/instrumentalities should participate to bridge the gap between manufacturing skill necessities and the skills graduates acquire. This research determines to initiate dialogues on controlling the number of humanities course intakes to humiliate the increasing style of humanities graduates in an inadequate task market.

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