Employment Status of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Graduates from Academic Year 2013 to 2017

Abstract

The study focused on the determination of the employment status of the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) graduates of the Guimaras State College curricular programs from Academic Year 2013 to 2017. The study utilized the descriptive research design using the adopted researchers made-questionnaire of the previous tracer study of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management graduates (BSHRM Work Performance as Perceived by their Employers) as an instrument with 224 retrieved graduates taken through simple random replacement sampling technique and used frequency, mean, percentages, and rank. Results of the study showed that majority of the graduates were female, single, and employed within age bracket of 21 to 25 years old. Majority of the graduates took financial management. As to employment status, most of them were regular permanent in Merchandising Company with accounting/finance type of job. Their job focused on clerical work and knowingly majority of them says it was their first job after graduated. Further, the graduates expressed that the course they took in college was related to their current job. Most of the graduates stayed 7 to 11 months in their first but currently stayed employed. However, most of them got a salary lower than 10,000. Moreover, salaries and benefits were number one reasons they accepted the job. The most developed skills from College that they applied in their job were Communication skills, human relation skills, and Information technology skills.