Graduate employability: the higher education landscape in Australia

Small, Lynlea; McPhail, Ruth; Shaw, Amie

doi:10.1080/07294360.2021.1877623

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“…They also stated that employability and the improvement of employability perceptions may have a positive impact on general efficacy beliefs. Also, the perceived employability of university students could be related to indicators of entrepreneurial abilities (Small et al. , 2021), which is a crucial ability for developing countries in which entrepreneurial activities are important for economic welfare.…”

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Serial multiple mediation of career adaptability and self-perceived employability in the relationship between career competencies and job search self-efficacy

Gerçek

2023

HESWBL

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PurposeThis study aims to explore the relationships between career competencies and job search self-efficacy via the serial multiple mediation effect of career adaptability and self-perceived employability within multiple theoretical frameworks.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts a cross-sectional design to collect data at a specific point in time and employs self-report questionnaires to collect data from participants. In total, 302 students from the “management and organization department” in a vocational school of a public university completed the survey forms. To test the hypothesized model, a serial multiple mediation analysis was performed using structural equation modeling (SEM) via SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures).FindingsThe results indicated that career competencies, career adaptability, job search self-efficacy and self-perceived employability all had significant and positive relationships. Additionally, the relationship between career competencies and job search self-efficacy was serially mediated by career adaptability and self-perceived employability as anticipated.Practical implicationsConsidering the growing importance of the subject of how universities might better prepare their graduates for the job market, the study's findings have important policy implications. University students should also be provided with career management resources, specifically adaptation resources, to help them navigate their individual characteristics and transfer more successfully into the existing job market. This is the cause of the need for constant planning, adaptation, assessment and evaluation of career competencies in current labor markets.Originality/valueThe study contributes to international career development and vocational education research by filling a gap in the literature by demonstrating that job search self-efficacy, which is a predictor of job search behavior, can be promoted by career competencies, career adaptability and self-perceived employability. These findings are particularly significant because they highlight the importance of career-related knowledge, skills and abilities in engaging university students seeking employment in a developing country with a highly competitive labor market.

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Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

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Serial multiple mediation of career adaptability and self-perceived employability in the relationship between career competencies and job search self-efficacy

Gerçek

2023

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“…Therefore, How university students perceive the environment outside their universities can critically influence their information-seeking and decision-making behaviors on campus. The extant literature has suggested that the efforts of university students to develop capital resources to enhance their graduate employability are driven not only by personal attributes (e.g., PI) but also by contextual factors [28,53].…”

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Surviving uncertainty: A dual-path model of personal initiative affecting graduate employability

Lai

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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The increasing uncertainty of our world raises important questions for university students on how they should respond to the employment challenges caused by changing environments. One of the central topics is the development of graduate employability. However, most previous research on graduate employability was undertaken in a stable environment, limiting our understanding of how graduate employability develops in a dynamic context. We have advanced the literature by introducing action theory to investigate the process of personal initiative affecting graduate employability in a period of environmental uncertainty. Using a time-lagged research design, we collected data from a sample of 229 Chinese university students and tested the hypothesized relationships. We find that personal initiative positively affects graduate employability through human and psychological capital. We further show that environmental uncertainty plays a contingent role in the above processes. Specifically, when a high level of environmental uncertainty is perceived, the positive indirect effect of personal initiative on graduate employability through either human capital or psychological capital is more likely to be strengthened. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are also discussed.

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“…The Australian health, welfare and care workforce has expanded rapidly over the past decade, largely due to jobs growth, the prospects of long term employment stability, and the substantial increase in graduates exiting these courses [1][2][3][4][5]. In part, growth in graduate numbers has been driven by projections of national workforce shortages in health, welfare and care by 2025 [6].…”

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Are recent health, welfare and care graduates part of a rural and remote workforce solution? Evidence from Tasmania, Australia

Jessup,

Proudfoot,

Cross

et al. 2024

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Strong growth in graduate supply from health, welfare and care courses across Australia may bode well for easing rural workforce shortages. However, little is known about the employment opportunities available for recent graduates in non-metropolitan areas. This study aimed to quantify and describe advertised job vacancies for health, welfare and care professions in Tasmania, a largely rural and geographically isolated island state of Australia. Further, it aimed to examine those job vacancies specifying that recent graduates were suitable to apply. Methods Job advertisements for health, welfare and care professionals were collected weekly throughout 2018 from six online job vacancy websites. Data were extracted on 25 variables pertaining to type of profession, number of positions, location, and graduate suitability. Location of positions were recoded into a Modified Monash Model (MM) category, the Australian geographic standard used to classify rurality. Positions advertised in MM2 areas were considered regional and MM3-7 areas rural to very remote. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results Over the twelve-month period, 3967 advertisements were identified, recruiting for more than 4700 positions across 49 different health, welfare and care professions in Tasmania. Most vacancies were in the non-government sector (58.5%) and located in regional areas (71.7%) of the state. Professions most frequently advertised were registered nurse (24.4%) and welfare worker (11.4%). Eleven professions, including physiotherapist and occupational therapist, recorded a disproportionate number of advertisements relative to workforce size, suggesting discipline specific workforce shortages. Only 4.6% of collected advertisements specified that a recent graduate would be suitable to apply. Of these, most were for the non-government sector (70.1%) and located in regional areas (73.4%). The professions of physiotherapist (26.6%) and occupational therapist (11.4%) were most frequently represented in advertised graduate suitable positions. Conclusions Despite a range of advertised employment opportunities for health, welfare and care professionals across Tasmania, few specified vacancies as suitable for recent graduates and most were located in regional areas of the state. Health, welfare and care services in non-metropolitan locations may need to develop more employment opportunities for recent graduates and explicitly advertise these to job-seeking graduates to help grow and sustain the rural and remote health workforce into the future.

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Graduate employability: the higher education landscape in Australia

Cited by 20 publications

References 20 publications

Serial multiple mediation of career adaptability and self-perceived employability in the relationship between career competencies and job search self-efficacy

Serial multiple mediation of career adaptability and self-perceived employability in the relationship between career competencies and job search self-efficacy

Surviving uncertainty: A dual-path model of personal initiative affecting graduate employability

Are recent health, welfare and care graduates part of a rural and remote workforce solution? Evidence from Tasmania, Australia

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