Employer requirements and employability mindsets influencing graduate workers’ self-confidence in gaining employment

Coetzee, Melinde; Ferreira, Nadia; Potgieter, Ingrid L.

doi:10.4102/ajcd.v1i1.4

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“…The triarchic model of distance learning 'World of work competency' refers to employees' selfefficacious business acumen, leadership skills, information retrieval, numeracy, communication and critical thinking skills and capability for the multidisciplinary problem solving of complex business problems (business ingenuity). Individuals' sociodigital agility involves their self-efficacious inter-digital competency relating to digital collaboration for problem solving, managing socio-cultural diversity and selfdirected management of their own career and employability (Coetzee et al, 2019(Coetzee et al, , 2021Kohl & Swartz, 2019).…”

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Employees’ career mindsets as career capital for a digital work world orientation

Coetzee

Ferreira

Potgieter

2023

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology

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Orientation: Employees need to develop career capital for an open-minded work world orientation in an unpredictable, rapidly evolving digital-era work world in which jobs and occupational pathways have become blurred and uncertain.Research purpose: This research empirically examined the extent to which distance learning employees’ career mindsets as career capital predicted facets of their digital-era work world orientation.Motivation for the study: The construct of work world orientation is empirically under-researched and the association between employees’ career mindsets, work world awareness and competency including their higher education studies’ contribution to their work world readiness is unclear.Research approach/design and method: Data were collected from (N = 486) full-time employed open- and distance-learning undergraduate students. Regression analysis and structural equation modelling (SEM) were applied in the cross-sectional, quantitative study.Main findings: The results revealed the protean (pure challenge) career mindset as important ‘knowing why’ career capital to positively predict participants’ digital work world awareness, work world competency and work world readiness.Practical/managerial implications: The study highlighted the importance of the protean (pure challenge) career mindset in the career development learning of employees to better prepare them for the digital-era work world.Contribution/value-add: The study enriched understanding of the implicit role of employees’ ‘knowing why’ career capital in their approach-motivation towards important digital-era ‘knowing what’ career capital.

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Section: World Of Work Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Employees’ career mindsets as career capital for a digital work world orientation

Coetzee

Ferreira

Potgieter

2023

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology

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“…Numerous literature is found on the associations between employment and other factors such as self-confidence, self-efficacy, personality attributes and quality of qualifications (Beaumont, Geyde & Richardson, 2016;Dacre Pool & Sewell, 2007;Finch et al, 2016;Kim, Kim & Lee, 2015;Onyishi et al, 2015). Coetzee, Ferreira and Potgieter (2019) confirmed that more research is needed on individuals' perceptions about the employability competencies needed to find suitable employment within the new digital world of work. Zakaria and Alhassan (2019) raised the critical question that if students perceive that their qualifications are preparing them adequately for the digital work world, will it enhance their sense of employability competency?…”

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University students’ digital world of work readiness in relation to their employability competency

Potgieter¹,

Coetzee²,

Ferreira³

2023

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This research empirically examined the extent to which university students’ perceptions about their readiness for the digital-era work world predict their sense of employability competency. Data were collected from 486 undergraduate students of a comprehensive South African distance learning higher education institution. Regression analysis and structural equation modelling revealed that students’ perceptions of their world of work readiness (i.e. job/occupation certitude and job/occupation fitness) significantly predict their sense of employability competency. The study highlights the importance of building confidence or certainty within students during their academic career about the knowledge, skills and occupations they want to pursue in the digital-era work sphere to positively influence their sense of employability competency. Should they feel positive about their work world readiness, they are more likely to exhibit the employability competency of business ingenuity and social digital agility which are deemed essential for the new normal work context.

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“…Also, graduates tend to be committed and perform better when given difficult tasks . Coetzee et al (2019) state that when graduates apply self-management strategies, they are able to perform under pressure, adapt to challenges, monitor their own career development and learn new skills that they can apply to their activities. Self-management strategies can assist graduates to achieve their career goals and change their behaviour in order to achieve these (Maria, 2015).…”

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“…According to Harvey (2001), graduates are employed for their ability to learn quickly, their innovative thinking and the knowledge they contribute to the organisation. Graduates are educated, quick at acquiring new knowledge, have the necessary qualifications, skills and knowledge and have the attitudes to solve work challenges (Adams & De Kock, 2012;Coetzee, Ferreira, & Potgieter, 2019). They therefore become valued employees for organisations (Coetzee et al, 2019).…”

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“…Graduates are educated, quick at acquiring new knowledge, have the necessary qualifications, skills and knowledge and have the attitudes to solve work challenges (Adams & De Kock, 2012;Coetzee, Ferreira, & Potgieter, 2019). They therefore become valued employees for organisations (Coetzee et al, 2019). In addition, graduates display their personal qualities and apply their skills, knowledge and practice to their work (Ismail, 2016).…”

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Self-management strategies of graduate employees to enhance work engagement

Dhanpat

Danguru

Fetile

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SA Journal of Industrial Psychology

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Orientation: The hiring of graduates is valuable to organisations. It is necessary to understand the self-management behaviours they display and the behaviours required to keep them engaged.Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how self-management strategies enhance work engagement of recent graduates who find themselves in a new environment of the world of work.Motivation for the study: Employee engagement is of both academic and practitioner interest. With organisations hiring graduates, it is valuable to understand the self-management behaviours needed to remain engaged.Research approach/design and method: A qualitative research approach was employed through an interpretivist research paradigm. A purposive sample of 12 graduate employees (median age = 24) in various fields of work were interviewed (women = 11, men = 1; black = 11, coloured = 1). The graduates participated in semi-structured interviews. A thematic analysis was conducted and five themes emerged.Main findings: Through an inductive approach, the five themes that emerged concerning self-management strategies used by graduates to enhance their work engagement are goal setting, self-cueing, self-observation, self-reward and self-punishment and work engagement practices.Practical/managerial implications: Self-management strategies help to sustain an engaged workforce. Organisations that make use of graduate recruitment will largely benefit from the findings.Contribution/value-add: There is limited research on the topic pertaining to graduate employees. Graduates remain relevant in the organisation, and hence, the study makes a contribution to theory and practice. A model is presented with recommendations for graduates and the organisation, which, when implemented, have the potential to enhance work engagement.

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Employer requirements and employability mindsets influencing graduate workers’ self-confidence in gaining employment

Cited by 9 publications

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Employees’ career mindsets as career capital for a digital work world orientation

Employees’ career mindsets as career capital for a digital work world orientation

University students’ digital world of work readiness in relation to their employability competency

Self-management strategies of graduate employees to enhance work engagement

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