Mapping Employability Attributes onto Facebook: rESSuME: Employability Skills Social Media survEy

Employability skills comprise soft skills, attitudes and personality traits, and they increase people's chances to be in work. They are generic, non-subject specific, nontechnical, intangible attributes, related to one's personality and professionalism. While there is debate regarding the correlation between these skills and employment, employability skills are perceived as more important than job specific skills. Employers investigate candidates online and their findings affect hiring decisions with rejection, rather than hiring, being the more likely outcome. Studies on graduates highlight a gap between employers and candidates' perspectives on employability skills. A mismatch between skills expected by the employers and those displayed by candidates. This paper presents rESSuME: Employability Skills Social Media Survey which was developed to understand how employers screen candidate's social media profiles.