Self perceived employability: construction and initial validation of a scale for university students

By Andrew Rothwell, Ian Herbert, F. Rothwell. 2008

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Subfields: Education, Media Technology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Authentic assessment in business education: its effects on student satisfaction and promoting behaviour (2018, methodology): “….907 12.212 I would bring up the unit in a positive way in conversations I have with friends, classmates and acquaintances .934 12.78 Career Ambition (Rothwell, Herbert, and Rothwell 2008) I want to be in a position to do mostly work which I really like N/A N/A N/A to Baron and Kenny’s (1986)…”
Networking behaviour, graduate employability: a social capital perspective (2017, methodology): “Consistent with the concept having both external and internal factors we used the Rothwell et al (2008) questionnaire which has shown good reliability as well as construct and criterion validity in undergraduate contexts.”
The Contributions of Emotional Intelligence and Social Support for Adaptive Career Progress Among Italian Youth (2015, background): “Students in this study ranged in age from 18 to 22 years (M ¼ 18.77, standard deviation [SD] ¼ .95) and were in their final year of high school.”
The student perspective on employability (2013, background): “Rothwell, Herbert, and Rothwell (2008) examined the beliefs of 344 undergraduate business students about their chances of success in seeking a particular type of work.”
Relationship between protean career orientation and work–life balance: A resource perspective (2015, background): “Career self-efficacy is associated with successful job search and re-employment (McArdle et al., 2007) and can give individuals the confidence to seek more extensive or better employment opportunities (Rothwell et al., 2008) thereby enhancing their employability.”
Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics (2017, background): “…found that older respondents were less confident in their employability than younger counterparts. van der Heijden (2002) asserts that, overall, employability decreases with employee age and Rothwell, Herbert, and Rothwell (2008) also reported older students as having the lowest levels of PE.”
Rethinking graduate employability: the role of capital, individual attributes and context (2018, background): “There are also indications that it impacts perceived employability (Okay-Somerville and Scholarios 2015; Rothwell, Herbert, and Rothwell 2008).”
Self-Regulatory Processes Mediating Between Career Calling and Perceived Employability and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Adults (2015, unknown): “For example, social support has been shown to be related to both employability and well-being (see Rothwell et al., 2008).”
Psychological Capital and Career Outcomes among Final Year University Students: the Mediating Role of Career Engagement and Perceived Employability (2020, background): “Rothwell, Herbert, and Rothwell (2008) categorized perceived employability into two aspects; an internal aspect (appraisal of one’s own academic performance, skills and abilities to get a job) and an external aspect (evaluation of external factors such as labor market conditions, strength of the…”
Investigating the relationship between career planning, proactivity and employability perceptions among higher education students in uncertain labour market conditions (2020, background): “Self-perceived employability concerns ‘what it [employability] actually means to individuals in the context of their experiences, their aspirations, and their perceptions of their ability to compete in the external labor market’ (Rothwell, Herbert and Rothwell 2008, 153).”
Impact of participation in extra-curricular activities during college on graduate employability: an empirical study of graduates of Taiwanese business schools (2014, background): “The global economic status and the government policies can undoubtedly affect graduate chances of being employed (Brown 2003; Forrier and Sels 2003; Rothwell, Herbert, and Rothwell 2008), and this study agrees that the government, the academia and business stakeholders should work together to…”
Strength in adversity: The influence of psychological capital on job search (2012, methodology): “Drawing from the work of Latack et al. (1995) and Rothwell et al. (2008), we argue that perceived employability, as a coping resource, is likely to have an effect on the type of coping goals and strategies that displaced employees adopt.”