The role and the importance of competencies for the employability of University graduates
The goal of this work is to explore the effects of various factors that affect the employmentof graduates of the University of Zenica. Additional analysis of variablesas well as the links between variables will offer the input information that can contributeto the decision-making process in the development of new curriculums. The surveywas conducted in Zenica-Doboj Canton, which involved n = 47 respondents. Toprocess data, the following programs were used: Microsoft Excel, SPSS and SmartPLS3 - SEM program. The verification of the validity and the reliability of the measuringscale was carried out by calculating the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient. Thereview of the set of the hypotheses was carried out by the Regression analysis. Thefindings revealed that three hypotheses were accepted and one of them was rejected.The set hypotheses confirmed that the adopted expertise of graduates, the level ofacquired skills and cooperation of the University with companies has a statisticallysignificant impact on the employability of graduates. The organizational skills ofgraduates do not have a statistically significant impact on the employability of theUniversity of Zenica graduates.