Academics’ and employers’ perceptions about responsibilities for employability and their initiatives towards its development

Sin, Cristina; Amaral, Alberto

doi:10.1007/s10734-016-0007-y

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“…The results obtained in the present paper agree with what Schöer et al (2014) or Sin and Amaral (2017) pointed out regarding the fact that the probability of being hired increases as does the company's size. As for the other variables, we cannot compare this to other studies as they have not been analyzed.…”

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“…As for the other variables, we cannot compare this to other studies as they have not been analyzed. like Sin and Amaral (2017), our results also show the low collaboration between employers and higher educational institution in order to improve employability. in any case, the results obtained in this study should be taken cautiously, given that -as we have already mentioned-the sample is not representative of the Catalan business world and the industry sector is overrepresented, which may be considered a limitation of the study.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…Be that as it may, it should be pointed out that all of the studies mentioned so far focused on the point of view of the youngster trying to access the labor market. However, in the job hunting process to access the labor market for the first time, one should bear in mind the pair job-hunting recent graduate / employer, and even add to this pair the university trainer's viewpoint (Cai 2013;Crossman and Clarke 2010;Serrano et al 2015;Sin and Amaral 2017). Brown and Hesketh (2004) showed that the importance given to university degrees by employers has decreased, whereas the importance they give to personal characteristics and people's skills has increased.…”

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Employability of Recent Graduates. Opinions of Catalonian Companies and Institutions

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Introduction: Labor insertion for young people is probably more difficult nowadays than it was a few decades ago in all productive sectors and in academic education. A few decades ago, having a university degree was a guarantee of quick labor insertion, but nowadays, although having a university degree may somewhat alleviate the unemployment rate, it is still high among recent university graduates. In this paper, we show the differential profile of the companies who do hire recent graduates as compared to those who do not.Methodology: We worked with a sample of 1,325 employers from the business world of Catalonia, who were administered the questionnaire prepared adhoc during 2014. Results: The main results show that the more workers a company has, the higher the probability that they will hire recent graduates. Companies with a high percentage of graduated workers are more likely to hire recent graduates. Companies who are willing to work with Agency for the Quality of the University System of Catalonia hire more than those who are not. And finally, the service sector hires more than construction or industry.Conclusions: In the present study we have shown a differential pattern between the companies that hire recent graduates or not, a very important aspect because this could help define university policies to facilitate the transition to the labor market.

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“…This tactic took shape as the best scalable and sustainable approach for ongoing Faculty-wide change. The approach supports the research findings of similar employability studies that suggest that academics are instrumental in the enactment of HE policies to enable curriculum change (Sin & Amaral, 2017). This paper details the first phase of the Faculty approach for developing and improving curricula.…”

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Good WIL hunting: Building capacity for curriculum re-design

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Campbell

2017

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In response to government, industry, student and central University calls for initiatives to enhance graduate employability as a means for improved employment outcomes, a faculty within an Australian university formulated a five-year Work Integrated Learning (WIL) strategy (2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019). The Faculty goal was to re-new, develop, implement and evaluate scalable and sustainable intentional WIL-focused authentic curricula across every undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) course by the end of 2019. A 'WIL Leadership Framework' underpinned the whole-of-course team approach. This paper reports on the change-management processes and behaviours necessary to effect change from the bottom-up. Fostering academic staff capacity to build course-appropriate WIL curriculum has been slow and subtle and yet significant refinements to intentional and embedded WIL curriculum have occurred through a series of grounded research studies and curriculum renewal projects. WIL champions (the innovators), earmarked as change agents for enabling scalable curriculum transformation and renewal, were 'hunted-out' and nurtured. Their role was to influence teachers to enact context-specific and discipline-based WIL experiences into the curriculum. The main research findings to date reveal that STEM-specific WIL frameworks, concepts and assessment examples, presented as scholarly curriculum choices by WIL experts, and then actively and collegially discussed amongst the WIL champions and WIL early adopters, has been the most effective process to date for developing a WIL centred curriculum. The paper concludes by addressing the current operational goals predicated to have an impact on graduate employment for the Faculty.

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“…Graduate acquire the employability not only through the talent training system of university, also through social network learning (Sin & Amaral, 2017). The members of the social network are often composed of members of different professional identity and backgrounds, and social networks are often heterogeneous.…”

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Graduate Employability: The Perspective of Social Network Learning

Chen

2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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This study provides a conceptual framework for understanding how the graduate acquire employability through the social network in the Chinese context, using insights from the social network theory. This paper builds a conceptual model of the relationship among social network, social network learning and the graduate employability, and uses structural equation analysis method to conduct an empirical test on the theoretical hypothesis, based on a sample of 1468 fresh graduates of business discipline from the local university in Zhejiang province of China. The findings suggested that social network is one of the important platforms for graduate to acquire employability in China, the scale of social network, social network heterogeneity and the strength of the relationship have positive effects on the formation of graduate employability. The acquisition mode of employability based on the social network can be divided into imitation learning, communication learning, accepting guidance, these three kinds of learning mode have positive effects on the formation of graduate employability, and play a mediating role in the relationship between social networks and graduate employability. University graduate should pay attention to the shaping of learning behavior based on social network to improve their employability in China.

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Academics’ and employers’ perceptions about responsibilities for employability and their initiatives towards its development

Cited by 68 publications

References 34 publications

Employability of Recent Graduates. Opinions of Catalonian Companies and Institutions

Employability of Recent Graduates. Opinions of Catalonian Companies and Institutions

Good WIL hunting: Building capacity for curriculum re-design

Graduate Employability: The Perspective of Social Network Learning

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