Industry's Expectations of Graduate Dispositions.

This work represents a work-in-progress study on how dispositions are essential to the workplace. Recent computing curricular reports have heralded the importance of moving from knowledge-based to competency-based learning. However, dispositions, as with skills and knowledge, are a crucial component of competency. Hence, this work reports on a study conducted by the authors to ascertain the relationship between job advertisements and the dispositions expected in the workplace. The results show a remarkable degree of correlation between the two. At the same time, some dispositions are more explicitly expected than others. Hence, computing and engineering educators should increase their efforts to foster dispositions in their curricula to develop competent graduates ready to succeed in the workplace. At the same time, more research is required on the industry's perspective and understanding dispositions.