An international profile of industry-relevant competencies and skill gaps in modern graduates

By Denise A Jackson. 2010

324 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Management of Technology and Innovation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/62c3ccaff3d8a899664e2b19cc9dcad7879442b9

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In Education

1. Denise A Jackson
2. A. Tymon
3. Cecily Knight
4. C. Kamau
5. A. Clements
6. R. Bridgstock

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. A. Tymon
2. Elvy Pang
3. Michael Wong
4. Chi-Hong Leung
5. John Coombes
6. Denise A Jackson

Citations in the corpus

• Testing a model of undergraduate competence in employability skills and its implications for stakeholders (2014, background): “It derives from an extensive review of literature and employer-based studies on required skills in undergraduates (see Jackson 2010).”
• The student perspective on employability (2013, background): “However, organisations are becoming increasingly reluctant to invest in developing the transferable skills of graduates due to economic pressures and beliefs about the lack of commitment from ‘generation Y’ employees (Jackson 2010), and so higher education institutions are expected to fill the gap a”
• The contribution of work-integrated learning to undergraduate employability skill outcomes (2013, unknown): “Jackson and Chapman’s own framework derived from an extensive review of employer-based studies on skills requirements in undergraduates (see Jackson, 2010).”
• Competencies for fresh graduates’ success at work: Perspectives of employers (2018, background): “In turn, there is an increasing demand for universities to produce graduates who are more practically work-ready (Alhelalat, 2015; Jackson, 2010; Low et al., 2016; Poon, 2014).”
• Employability skill development in work-integrated learning: Barriers and best practice (2015, unknown): “Jackson and Chapman’s framework itself was based on an extensive literature review of employer perceptions of industry-relevant skills in graduates entering the labour market (Jackson 2010).”
• Discrepant stakeholder perspectives on graduate employability strategies (2016, background): “…if universities commit to missions, strategic design and cohesive pedagogies that support students to develop generic skills (Coetzee, 2014; Jackson, 2009; Mutwarasibo et al., 2014; Nagarajan & Edwards, 2014; Rae, 2007; Yorke, 2010), self-awareness and selfdirectedness (Su, 2014),…”