Graduate Employability: A Review of Conceptual and Empirical Themes

By M. Tomlinson. Higher Education Policy, 2012

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Subfields: Education, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Understanding students’ motivation towards proactive career behaviours through goal-setting theory and the job demands–resources model (2018, background): “Graduates face an increasingly competitive labour market, and many difficulties in finding employment (Tomlinson 2012; Helyer and Lee 2014).”
Employability skills: Perspectives from a knowledge-intensive industry (2015, background): “***** INSERT TABLE 1 HERE ***** The relationship between HE institutes and the labour market is context specific at the national level (Tomlinson, 2012).”
Employability: a contemporary review for higher education stakeholders (2018, background): “Tomlinson (2012) suggested that the challenge faced by graduate employees is to develop strategies, such as accruing additional credentials and capitals that convert into economic gain, to reduce the likelihood of falling into these categories.”
Rethinking graduate employability: the role of capital, individual attributes and context (2018, background): “For graduates, labour market factors have become a key driver of employment success however the massification of higher education has resulted in an oversupply of graduates from many disciplines (Piróg 2016; Tomlinson 2012).”
Employability: A review of the literature 2012-2016 (2017, background): “However, much of the literature we found demonstrates that there continues to be discourse about the nature of employability and how it relates to the role of higher education (Tomlinson 2012).”
Developing career management competencies among undergraduates and the role of work-integrated learning (2016, background): “Role of WIL Watts (2006) argues problem-based, active and student-centred learning are essential to the effective development of career management competencies, in addition to an authentic context that facilitates the simulation of work-related activities. He appraised student learning in the workpl”
Developing evaluative judgement: enabling students to make decisions about the quality of work (2018, background): “This also aligns with much of the ongoing discussions in higher education focused on preparing students for professional practice, which is sometimes couched in terms of an employability agenda (Knight and Yorke 2003; Tomlinson 2012).”
Career Competencies and Career Success: On the Roles of Employability Activities and Academic Satisfaction During the School-to-Work Transition (2021, background): “Consequently, graduates are becoming increasingly aware that academic credentials are not enough to find a suitable job (Buhl et al., 2018; Tomlinson, 2012): To achieve early career success in this turbulent labor market, they need to develop their career competencies (Akkermans et al., 2013;…”
What does ‘quality’ in higher education mean? Perceptions of staff, students and employers (2019, background): “All of these help students to become self-directed learners, enhancing their employability (Nicol, 2010), a priority for higher education (Tomlinson, 2012).”
The winner takes it all, the loser has to fall: Provoking the agency perspective in employability research (2018, unknown): “This has been criticised by opponents as supply side orthodoxy (Berglund & Wallinder, 2015; Tomlinson, 2012).”