Are university graduates fit for purpose?

This title is part of the EAIE Executive Summary series, which provides takeaways from key sessions at the EAIE conference. In Dialogue 02 at EAIE Prague 2014, panellists Jurgen Rienks, Livio Matei, Piotr Pluta, Jamil Salmi, Petr Šulc and Eva Werner debated why graduates of higher education institutions face high rates of unemployment despite plentiful job vacancies. Is it a mismatch between the human resource capabilities that industry needs and the competencies that graduates possess?