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= 3.33). Facility management is ranked         Lumpur.
lowest primarily because professional                                                             Lee Fui Tong, (2003) “Identifying essential
quantity surveyors do not offer this as        Ashworth A. & Hogg, K (2007): Willi’s Practice     learning skills in students’engineering
mainstream service..                           and Procedure for the Quantity Surveyor, 12th      education, Monash University Malaysia.
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5. Conclusion                                                                                     Mohamad Sattar, (2009). Aspek kemahiran
                                               Archer, W., &Davinson, J. (2008). Graduate         pekerjaan yang dikehendaki majikan industri
This study has revealed that quantity          Employability: What do Employers Think             pembuatan masa kini. Jurnal Pendidikan
surveying employers rated the importance       and Want? London: Councilfor Industry and          Malaysia , 67-69.
of employability skills highly, especially     Higher Education.
for the profession’s new graduates. The                                                           Mohamad Sattar Rasul, Mohd Yusof Ismail,
findings of this study clearly indicate         Azim, S., Gale, A., Lawlor-Wright, T.,             Napsiah Ismail, Muhammad Rashid Rajuddin,
that quantity surveying graduates would        Kirkham, R., Khan, A., &Alam, M. (2010).The        & Rose Amnah Abd Rauf (2009) Importance
need to be well-prepared in order to fulfill    Importance of Soft Skills in Complex Projects.     of Employability Skills as Perceived by
the employer’s requirements which are          International Journal in Managing Projects in      Employers of Malaysian Manufacturing
related to: interpersonal skills, personal     Business, 3(3), 387-401.                           Industry. Journal of Applied Sciences
quality skills, teamwork skills, information                                                      Research, 5(12), 2059-2066.
and communication technology (ICT)             Board of Quantity Surveyor Malaysia (BQSM),
skills, basic skills and resource skills.      https://www.bqsm.gov.my/index.php/en/              Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA)
With tangible shifts in the global market      statistics.                                        (2006). Titik rujukan dan persefahaman
place of graduates worlwide, employers                                                            bersama tentang kelayakan pengajian
are increasingly looking for pertinent         Brown, B. L. (2002) Generic Skills in Career       tinggi di Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur: Agensi
employability skills to accompany              and Technical Education. Columbus:                 Kelayakan Malaysia.Mohd Sattar, (2009).
technical skills of graduates entering         Educational Resources Information Center.          Aspek kemahiran pekerjaan yang dikehendaki
the construction industry. Having the                                                             majikan industri pembuatan masa kini. Jurnal
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