The graduate attributes we’ve overlooked: enhancing graduate employability through career management skills

Bridgstock, Ruth

doi:10.1080/07294360802444347

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“…These features denote the skill set that is highlighted in discussions on graduate employability (e.g. Bridgstock, 2009;McQuaid & Lindsay, 2005). Additionally, the generic attributes of a good employee were correlated with the optimistic perception of one's employability.…”

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“…Potential worker status is expressed through attributes associated with the graduate's future identity: employability is not just about getting a job, but about learning, having and developing general workrelated abilities, the so-called 'core' or 'enterprise' skills, such as creativity, problem-solving skills, innovativeness, flexibility, communication, emotional intelligence, teamwork and the ability to take risks (Bridgstock, 2009;McQuaid & Lindsay, 2005). These skills represent 'soft currencies' (Tomlinson, 2012), which are transferable to a wide range of employment contexts, i.e.…”

Section: Employability Skills In Higher Educationmentioning

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University students’ perceptions of their ‘ability selves’ and employability: a pilot study

Räty

Komulainen

Harvorsén

et al. 2018

Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy

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This study sets out to investigate the university students' perceptions of their current and expected 'ability selves' and the contribution of such perceptions to students' views of their own employability. The participants consisted of a group of male and female students (N = 104) who were asked to describe their present and anticipated abilities and to respond to a set of statements describing self-perceived employability. The students highlighted social aptness, extroversion and enterprise skills in particular as features related to ability selves in current discussions of working life. These interpretations were subsequently related to the optimism they had about their own employability. 'Ability selves' seem to play a role in the multifaceted process of subjective confidence formation regarding one's employment prospects after graduation. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Employability Skills In Higher Educationmentioning

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University students’ perceptions of their ‘ability selves’ and employability: a pilot study

Räty

Komulainen

Harvorsén

et al. 2018

Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy

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“…A third perspective to graduate employability suggests that it is developed as a result of a process of career self-management (CSM) (e.g., Bridgstock 2009). This points to the role of proactive career behaviours in successfully managing careers, especially in today's turbulent economic times.…”

Section: Graduate Employability As Processmentioning

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Position, possession or process? Understanding objective and subjective employability during university-to-work transitions

Okay–Somerville

Scholarios

2015

Studies in Higher Education

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This article aims to understand predictors of objective (i.e., job offers, employment status and employment quality) and subjective (i.e., perceived) graduate employability during university-to-work transitions. Using survey data from two cohorts of graduates in the UK (N=293), it contrasts three competing theoretical approaches to employability: position (based on social background), possession (of human capital) and process (of career self-management (CSM)).Findings support the process view of graduate employability, developed through engaging in career self-management, in particular environment exploration, networking and guidance seeking. There is also some support for a possession view where educational credentials predict employment quality and perceived employability. Theoretically, the study highlights the importance of proactive career behaviours as well as the constraining role of educational credentials for some during university-to-work transitions. These findings have practical implications for university students/graduates and career counsellors, and, more indirectly, for employers and policy-makers.

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“…Such skills associated with individual perceptions and evaluations regarding the skills, values, interests and goals referred to as self-management skills are closely related to the concept of career identity (Bridgstok, 2009). Bridgstock latter cites the work done by Eby, Butts, and Lockwood, developed in 2003, showing that students who possess a clearly developed concept of their personal career goals and also a positive and a realistic assessment of their capabilities (a strong and well-defined career identity), reported to have a higher level of employment than other students.…”

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Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Albania

Keqi¹

2014

Eur. j. soc. sci. educ. res.

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The graduate attributes we’ve overlooked: enhancing graduate employability through career management skills

Cited by 885 publications

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University students’ perceptions of their ‘ability selves’ and employability: a pilot study

University students’ perceptions of their ‘ability selves’ and employability: a pilot study

Position, possession or process? Understanding objective and subjective employability during university-to-work transitions

Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Albania

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