What employability for higher education students?

Bonnard, Claire

doi:10.1080/13639080.2020.1842866

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“…The findings imply that soft skills and basic skills have immensely improved through educational practice, such as providing professional projects, occupational knowledge and skills training, off-campus internships, and other practical programs to enhance their career competence. Work placement periods during study could develop graduate employability and cultivate graduates with specific skills particularly in connection with the workplace (Bonnard, 2020 ); extracurricular activities (Roulin and Bangerter, 2013 ) are also significant in graduates' future academic and professional careers. In contrast, transferable education has great potential to inspire finance and trade graduates to be more qualified and competitive among candidates.…”

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The Employability and Career Development of Finance and Trade College Graduates

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Employability is a vital aspect for human development in career fields. In order to explore the factors affecting the employability of finance and trade graduates in higher vocational colleges, the researchers focused on human development in educational settings and conducted a piece of quantitative research within nine higher vocational colleges. The study uses descriptive statistical analysis to demonstrate the sample structure, using t-test, rank sum test, and chi-square test to assess the variables. It also adopts exploratory factor analysis to identify the classification of both educational practice and employability. Then, a multivariable linear regression model was adopted to examine the relationships between three main factors as well as the employability and career development of finance and trade graduates. The findings imply that the soft skills and basic skills of finance and trade college graduates have immensely improved through educational practice; graduates with high motivation for learning could enhance their soft skills and more internships or club engagement brings stronger professional skills. Based on these results, higher vocational colleges, enterprises, policymakers, teachers, and finance and trade graduates will benefit from the findings related to the reform of educational practice for strengthening graduate employability and human development. The originality of this paper is the conceptual evolution of finance and trade college graduate employability, as well as the empirical analysis on educational practice, student engagement, and family background affecting their human development.

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“…Moreover, our results should be communicated to higher education institutions, to improve course plans and the interface with the employers and companies, but also to improve opportunities to students improve their weekness, according to the needs and skills valued by employers. Other authors have previously emphasised the importance of internships and work placements for skills development, but also the risk these initiatives have in increasing social and educational inequalities (Bonnard, 2020). In some courses and institution internships and work placements are optional, giving the student the responsibility to anticipate and appropriate, themselves, its potential benefits.…”

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Required skills for employability in Portugal from graduates and students of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB)

Ferro-Lebres

Lopes

Pereira

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7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'21)

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The Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) developed an online survey, called the Observatory of Students and Graduates, aimed at entities in Portugal as a means of gathering information about the stakeholders view of IPB graduates and students, regarding skills for employability. Of the total (424) entities contacted, 118 responded, representing 28% of the total. It was noted that 79 of the responses have included IPB students and graduates in their staff, being 27% entities of the Agroforestry-food sector, 16% from the Consulting, Real Estate and Finance sector, and 14% from the Transport and Commerce sector. IPB graduates and students’s skills were discussed from the perspective of employers. 12 skills were listed, with an average of 95% of responses between "Very Important" and "Important".´The skills that stood out the most were: “Learning” and “Motivation/Involvement”. The lowest priority skills were: “Physical: Robustness and manual dexterity”, followed by “General Culture”. These data point to the clear fact that the soft skills have greater relevance than hard skills. One of the justifications is that the advent of artificial intelligence, and other technologies that have been performing functions that overlap with technical - human knowledge.

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“…Ograniczenia w zakresie realizacji praktyk zawodowych podczas studiów są zdecydowanie niekorzystne. Jak zauważa Claire Bonnard (2020), odbywanie praktyk zawodowych w trakcie studiów umożliwia rozwój zatrudnialności młodych ludzi, czyli umiejętności znalezienia i utrzymania pracy. Stwarzają one okazję do nabywania i rozwijania różnych umiejętności, szczególnie związanych ze światem pracy, oraz sprzyjają nawiązywaniu kontaktów z pracodawcami i innymi pracownikami, co niewątpliwie wzmacniania szanse na zdobycie zatrudnienia po zakończeniu studiów.…”

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Student Resources in the Context of Contemporary Labor Market Challenges

Sarzyńska-Mazurek

2021

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What employability for higher education students?

Cited by 29 publications

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The Employability and Career Development of Finance and Trade College Graduates

The Employability and Career Development of Finance and Trade College Graduates

Required skills for employability in Portugal from graduates and students of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB)

Student Resources in the Context of Contemporary Labor Market Challenges

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