‘Am I employable?’: Understanding students' employability confidence and their perceived barriers to gaining employment

Beaumont, Emily; Gedye, Sharon; Richardson, Samantha

doi:10.1016/j.jhlste.2016.06.001

Cited by 38 publications

(43 citation statements)

References 16 publications

(23 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Literature has conflicting views on the usefulness of DLHE data, due to the lack of detail it considers, being described as a measure of employment rather than employability (Beaumont, Gedye, & Richardson, 2016;Bridgstock, 2009;Dacre Pool, Qualter, & J. Sewell, 2014) that fails to take account of the social-economic backgrounds of students and the status or prestige of the HE institution attended (Dacre Pool, Qualter, & J. Sewell, 2014). However, the DLHE data is the only nationally recognised measure of graduate employment and its wide spread use permits comparison across similar courses that otherwise wouldn't be possible.…”

Section: Results and Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing graduate employability in product design

Watkins

Higginson

Clarke

2018

HESWBL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose -This paper presents a case study to discuss approaches taken within a traditional undergraduate degree course to embed employability skills, encourage student uptake of sandwich placement and increase graduate prospects. A number of new initiatives are presented, including working with live industrial clients, formally preparing students for placement applications and the introduction of an externally facing student run design consortium. Alongside these new initiatives, details of the existing sandwich year provision are also considered and their effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach -A case study based action research approach presents changes to a specific undergraduate course, measuring the effectiveness over a 4-year period using externally collected national DLHE data and internal student feedback to assess the long-term effects on employability. Findings -The paper considers improvements in the graduate employability over the 4 year period covered, in particular, an increase in the graduate employability from 81%-100% and graduate prospects from 62.5% to 95.2% for sandwich students. Data presented also considers additional student feedback correlating with an increase in their preparedness for employment. Practical implications -The implications of undertaking the changes highlighted within this paper have been relatively straightforward, due to the small incremental nature of the changes and the opportunities available through the agencies within the university, and should be replicable at least in part at other HE institutions. Originality/value -This paper considers the impact of employability initiatives undertaken on a single undergraduate course and how these have affected the employability of graduates over a 4-year period, supported by student feedback both internally and externally through national feedback mechanisms. It is anticipated that this research would be beneficial for informing and guiding the development of employability on other undergraduate programmes.

show abstract

Section: Results and Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing graduate employability in product design

Watkins

Higginson

Clarke

2018

HESWBL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Sun et al (2016) explained value as individual persistent preference or judgment standards of specifi c aff airs, behaviors, or objectives; such preference presented the reference beliefs of cognition, aff ection, and intention to guide individual behaviors, satisfy individual needs, and achieve individual objectives. Beaumont, Gedye, S., Richardson. (2016) pointed out work value as a part of overall value system, showing the tight correlations between all attributes of value and social value system, social environment, working essence, or occupational structure.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Based on Work Value to Discuss the Effect of College Students’ Corporate Internship on the Employability

Jian-ning¹,

Lee²

2019

RCIS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Employment in enterprises is getting flexible and international in past years. Along with the stricter employment market, the employment of college graduates is concerned. When getting into workplace, university new graduates have to face fiercely international competition and rapidly changing industrial structure; the changing employment market is also encountering strict test. Employability has been the highly emphasized issue in advanced countries that the promotion of students’ employability is listed as a major objective in the educational reform of universities, where employability is listed as a core objective. Taking college graduating students in Hebei Province as the empirical objects in this study, 297 valid copies of questionnaire are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 83%. The research results conclude 1.corporate internship would affect work value, 2.corporate internship would influence employability, 3.work value presents significantly positive effects on attitude and ability in employability, 4.work value shows remarkably positive effects on planning and learning in employability, and 5.work value reveals notably positive effects on knowledge application in employability. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to enhance college students’ employment after the graduation and assist in the lifelong employability.

show abstract

“…Research into the impact of sport degrees, usually focuses on sport science or sport studies (Baker et al, 2017;Beaumont, Gedye and Richardson, 2016) the specific area of sport management and sport marketing degrees are bereft of direct study as to what industry managers view as beneficial for an early career or job applicant graduate to either enter the industry or progress. The undergraduate degree of Sport Marketing fails to be listed within the QAA Subject Benchmarking statement (Events, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism, 2016).…”

Section: Sport Studies and Employabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the gap

Raven

2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This document is the author's post-print version, incorporating any revisions agreed during the peer-review process. Some differences between the published version and this version may remain and you are advised to consult the published version if you wish to cite from it. Title Mind the Gap: Sport Management Education and Graduate Employment in the Sport Industry An auto-ethnographical analysis of the distance between Sport Management Education and the Sports Fitness Industry.

show abstract

‘Am I employable?’: Understanding students' employability confidence and their perceived barriers to gaining employment

Cited by 38 publications

References 16 publications

Enhancing graduate employability in product design

Enhancing graduate employability in product design

Based on Work Value to Discuss the Effect of College Students’ Corporate Internship on the Employability

Mind the gap

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About