The Development of Student Employability in Higher Education: a comparative perspective on university approaches at European level

Boffo, Vanna; Gioli, Gaia; Terzaroli, Carlo

doi:10.3280/erp2017-001002

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“…Considering the second building block of entrepreneurial education, i.e., skill building (Wilson, 2008), university career services could promote entrepreneurial skills programs (Cortellazzo et al, 2020) with the aim to increase students' abilities to be alert to career opportunities (Arranz et al, 2017). Moreover, career services should support students by organizing workshops and challenges to foster their intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial skills (Boffo et al, 2017). For example, career services could offer training programs to improve entrepreneurial skills and to focus on opportunity discovery.…”

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Entrepreneurial alertness and self-perceived employability: a virtuous marriage for career development

Cavaliere

Sassetti

Lombardi

2021

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PurposeBuilding on the importance of students becoming entrepreneurs of their own career, this research aimed to achieve two main objectives: to empirically test the sequential relationship between the three dimensions of entrepreneurial alertness as proposed by Tang et al. (2012) and to link such dimensions to self-perceived employability.Design/methodology/approachA web survey data were obtained among a sample of 404 universities students. The test of the theoretical framework was performed by running a structural equation modeling (SEM).FindingsThe results show that the three entrepreneurial alertness components are sequentially related. Moreover, the results demonstrated that among the examined dimensions, only evaluation and judgment had a direct effect on self-perceived employability, with the remaining dimensions having an indirect influence.Originality/valueThere has been rarely any previous empirical attempt at investigating a framework that consider the relationship between entrepreneurial attitudes, such as alertness, on employability. The investigation of the entrepreneurial attitudes as antecedents of employability is particularly vital to graduates who will soon enter the labor market as “entrepreneurs of their own career”.

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Entrepreneurial alertness and self-perceived employability: a virtuous marriage for career development

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Lombardi

2021

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“…The change, for the future of countries, starts from higher education's ability to prepare people who can contribute to innovation, development, and social inclusion (Boffo, Gioli, Terzaroli 2017). If work really does represent the tool by which people build sense and their place in the world (Boffo 2012), then people should progressively develop the ability to create new and better opportunities, for as many people as possible, to increase the quality of their life.…”

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The Role of Higher Education in a Changing World: Why Employability Matters

Terzaroli

2018

Employability &Amp; Competences

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The transformations of work are increasingly introducing new scenarios at a global level. In fact, the disruptive importance of innovation in all workplace contexts anticipates the challenge of skills and capabilities for the work of the future. In this sense, education has a crucial role in supporting the development of students and future workers. This paper analyses in depth the link between education, work and the pedagogical instrument of work pedagogy that is derived directly from John Dewey’s thought. This theoretical standpoint represents the base for the development of employability in higher education and its future challenges of innovation, development, and social inclusion

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“…In order to address this issue, many universities have started to implement strategies for increasing the employability of young graduates by improving their competence, motivation and interests. However, many institutions continue to be criticized for not doing enough on the employability front, thereby failing to address the haphazard transition of individuals from college to industry (Boffo et al, 2017) and leaving the hapless graduates to fend for themselves. For management graduate students, job search behaviour starts well before they join a management school, when they determine their career goals and engage in preparatory job search behaviours (Van Hooft and Noordzij, 2009).…”

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Proposing a systematic framework for channelized job search: The role of goal orientation

Nimmi

Joshy

2023

Industry and Higher Education

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Channelized job search powered by perceived employability could help graduates to successfully launch a sustainable career and navigate the job market effectively. The paper develops novel ways to improve the job search process by detailing the interlinking mechanism between perceived employability and active job search. The authors also enquired about the intervening role played by preparatory job search and job search learning goal orientation. For this purpose, cross-sectional data of 317 management graduates in India were collected and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was conducted on the data using IBM Amos. The study found that enhanced perceived employability had a major impact on active job search behaviour. It was also found that it is through job search learning goal orientation and preparatory job search behaviour that perceived employability is associated with an active job search. The study has theoretical and practical implications. Theoretically, it links the theory of planned job search behaviour to employability research. Practically, it provides guidelines for universities and career counsellors on how to help students with their job searching. This is one of the first studies to look into the sequential mechanism through which employability perceptions impact active job searching.

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The Development of Student Employability in Higher Education: a comparative perspective on university approaches at European level

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Entrepreneurial alertness and self-perceived employability: a virtuous marriage for career development

Entrepreneurial alertness and self-perceived employability: a virtuous marriage for career development

The Role of Higher Education in a Changing World: Why Employability Matters

Proposing a systematic framework for channelized job search: The role of goal orientation

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