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PurposeThis paper focusses on demonstrating the role of social media engagement and considering emotional intelligence (hereafter EI) as a critical concept to successful employment, mainly when individuals fail to reach the desired employment despite “meeting” the role requirements.Design/methodology/approachThe authors adopted a qualitative approach through semi-structured in-depth interviews of some randomly selected university students in the UK, young adults aged 19–32. The participants were selected based on different demographics to provide a broader and less biased representation of young adults in the UK.FindingsThis research suggests that recruitment organisations should introduce the latest requirements and trends of employers to ensure that the expectations of employers and potential candidates are aligned to improve the employment rate in young adults.Originality/valueThis research extends the literature regarding EI in social media engagement and successful employment. It also brings new perspectives on successful employment in young adults by demonstrating the role of social media engagement and EI traits leading to a conceptual framework exploring successful employment based on the role of social media engagement and EI.

Energy security is often classified as necessary to human security because of the importance of its services for both modern economies and post-modern lifestyles as it relates to dialogue about energy issues as well as climate change. The chapter aims to provide assessment and consideration of key aspects relating to energy security by providing comprehensive definitions, highlights on key characteristics, underlying values and components of each of different key dimensions of energy security, as well as key contributions to economic developments. The chapter is primary based on reviewing the available literature in the field as well as inclusion of key professional and academic publications to enhance application and inclusion of key trends in the field as well as policies. The chapter provides an insight for policy developers and decision makers in several associated sectors.

The aim of the paper is to assess various business models and how they are established to extract the business activity maximum value within a specific framework. The research is primarily supported by inclusion of the available literature within the field as well as relevant professional and academic publication to enhance currency and relevance to application, as well as identification of trending developments and issues. The research concluded that governments should further promote the commercial aspect of new and renewable energy when developing new technology through fiscal, financial, regulatory and other means. Furthermore, the regulatory environment has massive impact in influencing the various models to be developed and such, incentives are necessary to enable a successful business model implementation and application.