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How does student employment lead to employability?

How does student employment lead to employability?. Gill Frigerio Career Studies Unit. Employability and me:. Can you remember when you first heard the term employability? In what context did you first become aware of the term? What has it meant to different roles you have had?

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How does student employment lead to employability?

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  1. How does student employment lead to employability? Gill Frigerio Career Studies Unit

  2. Employability and me: Can you remember when you first heard the term employability? In what context did you first become aware of the term? What has it meant to different roles you have had? What about your own employability? How do you feel about applying the term to you? Have you ever taken part in anything formal to boost your own employability?

  3. Employability – value free? Employability is about having the capability to gain initial employment, maintain employment and obtain new employment if required Hillage and Pollard (1998: 1) If 5 well trained brain surgeons applied for a suitable vacancy, it is inevitable that 4 surgeons will not get job offers. Likewise, at times of labour shortages the long term unemployed become ‘employable’ whereas when jobs are in short supply they become ‘unemployable’ if there is a ready supply of qualified job seekers willing to take low skilled, low waged jobs. Employability cannot, therefore, be defined solely in term of individual skills or characteristics. This is because it exists in two dimensions – the relative and the absolute. Virtually all policy statements on employability fail to grasp this duality of employability. (Brown and Hesketh, 24)

  4. What is higher education for? • Traditionalism - purist and discipline-focused around knowledge creation • Progressivism - about the development of our students as learners via teaching  • Economic & Enterprise - Universities as economic organisations, wealth creation, creation of future labour market • Social re-constructionism - to advance social equality/mobility (Christie, F., 2013, personal communication)

  5. The CBI’s “employability skills” • Self-management • Teamworking • Business and customer awareness • Problem, solving • Communication and literacy • Application of numeracy • Application of information technology • Positive attitude • Entrepreneurship and enterprise

  6. The CareerEDGE Model of Graduate Employability Career Development Learning Experience (Work & Life) Degree Subject Knowledge, Understanding and Skills Generic Skills Emotional Intelligence

  7. The USEM model • U Understanding (of disciplinary material and also generally ‘how the world works’ • S Skilful practices in context (discipline related or generic) • E Efficacy beliefs (under which are subsumed a range of personal qualities and attributed) • M Metacognition (including the capacity of reflection and self-regulation) Yorke and Knight, 2004

  8. VIPER (Hinchliffe and Jolly, 2011) • Values • Intellect • Performance • Engagement • Reflection

  9. Student Orientations to Employability Orientation to market (ends) Careerist Ritualist Active Passive (means) Rebel Retreatist Non-market orientation Tomlinson, M (2007) ‘Graduate Employability and Student attitudes and orientations to the labour market’, Journal of Education and Work Vol 20 No 4 pp 285-304

  10. Experiential Learning Kolb, 1984

  11. Gibbs, 1998 – Structured debriefing

  12. Case studies of employability initiatives • How would you evaluate it this initiative? • What perspectives have informed its development? • What impactdoes it have? • How would you analyse the benefits vs. cost? • How scalable is the initiative to all students?

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