Developing and Utilizing Employability Capitals: Graduates' Strategies Across Labour Markets

ISBN-13: 9781032175102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 300 str.

Tran Le Huu Nghia; Thanh Pham; Michael Tomlinson

Opis

Graduate employability is a significant concern for most higher education institutions worldwide. This book explores graduates’ experiences in developing and utilizing employability capitals for career development and success in different labour markets.

Spis treści

An overview of the current policy and conceptual landscape of graduate employability  1. The need to develop graduate employability for a globalized world  2. Employability, employability capital, and career development: A literature review  3. Using narrative inquiry and critical reflection to examine graduate employability and career development  4. Toward securing employment in the host country: Personal agency in early career journey  5. Differences in experiences of career development in host and home countries  6. Beyond human capital: The role of other types of capital in graduates’ career development  7. Beyond human capital: Combining different employability capitals for career development  8. Developing and using social networks for occupational mobility in different labour markets  9. Using personal agency in achieving different career goals  10. Career development as a journey to construct professional identity  11. Circumnavigation: Supporting employability by developing ‘capitals’  12. Why should I walk the same career development pathways as everyone else?  13. Employability and determinants of employment outcomes  14.The way ahead for the employability agenda in higher education

O autorze

Tran Le Huu Nghia is a Research Fellow in work-integrated learning and graduate employability at the College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, Australia

Thanh Pham is a Lecturer in graduate employability and higher education at the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia

Michael Tomlinson is an Associate Professor and a leading researcher in graduate employability at the University of Southampton, UK

Karen Medica is a Lecturer in the Business School at Monash University, Australia

Christopher D. Thompson is Associate Dean (Education) at the Faculty of Science, Monash University, Australia