Graduate employability and student attitudes and orientations to the labour market

By M. Tomlinson. 2007

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Higher education, changing labour market and social mobility in the era of massification in China (2016, background): “Due to the massification of higher education, university students have to face a crowding-out effect, whereby they have to accept jobs intended for those with lower levels of education or even worse, remain unemployment (Dolado, Felgueroso, and Jimeno 2000; Tomlinson 2007).”
Rethinking graduate employability: the role of capital, individual attributes and context (2018, background): “…these attributes have a direct bearing on graduate employment success and that factors such as social class, gender, ethnicity, social networks and university status and are more salient to job search outcomes (Mason, Williams, and Cranmer 2009; Okay-Somerville and Scholarios 2015; Tomlinson 2007).”
A systematic review of current understandings of employability (2016, background): “Moreover, Tomlinson (2007), who identifies his conceptualisation as being one of employability, presented an identity model with two distinct aspects of how an individual positions themselves in terms of their approach to work and development, and to their career goals.”
Students’ perceptions of their preparedness for transition to work after graduation (2018, background): “In this case, it is likely that with increasing age comes intellectual growth and so it has a positive effect on perceptions of preparedness for work (Tomlinson, 2007).”
Graduate Employability: A Review of Conceptual and Empirical Themes (2012, background): “Research into university graduates’ perceptions of the labour market illustrates that they are increasingly adopting individualised discourses (Moreau and Leathwood, 2006; Tomlinson, 2007; Taylor and Pick, 2008) around their future employment.”
Students’ use of extra-curricular activities for positional advantage in competitive job markets (2013, background): “Graduates perceive employability as a problem they should solve themselves, based on individual dispositions or motivation (Tomlinson 2007).”
Investigating the relationship between career planning, proactivity and employability perceptions among higher education students in uncertain labour market conditions (2020, background): “Previous research has provided qualitative insight on student orientations to the labour market and its bearing on their employability management (Tomlinson 2007).”
Engineering students’ experiences of transition from study to work (2010, background): “…employability and the future job market Based on this definition, studies of graduate employability can be undertaken with a focus on social and political aspects of the relevance of further education (Brown and Hesketh 2004; Delanty 2001; Mason 2002; McQuaid and Colin 2005; Tomlinson 2007).”
Millennials’ Career Perspective and Psychological Contract Expectations: Does the Recession Lead to Lowered Expectations? (2010, background): “To these five dimensions, we added two dimensions of employer inducements that are relevant for studying psychological contract expectations in a changing economic context (Tomlinson 2007): training (e.”
Skills for creative industries graduate success (2011, neutral): “Somewhat less attention has been given to the influence of motivational and attitudinal characteristics on graduate employability (Tomlinson, 2007) and remarkably little has been said about the importance of career management skills, which are the cluster of abilities required to navigate the world…”