Graduate Employability Across Contexts: Perspectives, Initiatives and Outcomes

This book explores stakeholders' perspectives, practices, and engagement with implementing the employability agenda in a rapidly changing world, emphasizing the need for developing graduate employability under socioeconomic, cultural, and political pressures. It develops a new graduate employability framework based on empirical evidence and highlights the relationships between types of employability capital and employment and career outcomes.

Format: Hardback
Length: 393 pages
Publication date: 03 September 2022
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This comprehensive book delves into the diverse perspectives, practices, and engagements of stakeholders in implementing the employability agenda in the ever-evolving world. It sheds light on the pressing need to cultivate graduate employability amidst socioeconomic, cultural, and political pressures faced by the higher education sector. Drawing upon Bourdieus concepts of social field, habitus, and capital, the book explores international stakeholders' perspectives and experiences with the graduate employability agenda across various contexts, serving as a valuable reference for adopting such initiatives.

Based on robust empirical evidence, the authors develop a novel graduate employability framework, envisioning it as a lifelong process that intertwines different types of employability capital. They also shed light on the consequences of various strategies employed to translate employability capital into employment and career outcomes.

Overall, this book offers a wealth of theoretical and practical insights that contribute to the advancement of employability programs, enhance the preparedness of the future workforce, and enable anticipation of turbulence in the labor markets.

Weight: 787g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811939587
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022