The impact of work placements on skills development and career outcomes for business and management graduates

By N. Wilton. 2012

237 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Human Factors and Ergonomics

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In Education

1. Denise A Jackson
2. C. Kamau
3. A. Clements
4. R. Bridgstock
5. S. Mgaiwa
6. N. Wilton
7. A. Tymon
8. M. Tomlinson

In Human Factors and Ergonomics

1. Denise A Jackson
2. S. Mgaiwa
3. R. Bridgstock
4. C. Kamau
5. A. Clements
6. N. Wilton
7. A. Tymon

Citations in the corpus

• Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics (2017, background): “Equating employment and employability is, however, problematic as it fails to acknowledge that the alignment between one’s ‘actual’ employability and employment outcomes is not always perfect (Wilton, 2012).”
• Developing career management competencies among undergraduates and the role of work-integrated learning (2016, methodology): “This research contributes to this discourse by elucidating the specific areas in which WIL students are better prepared for the graduate labour market beyond the acquisition of work-related skills and experiences (Wilton 2012).”
• Understanding students’ motivation towards proactive career behaviours through goal-setting theory and the job demands–resources model (2018, background): “Wilton (2012) reported that graduates in generalist careers (i.e. unrelated to their degree) had greater perceptions of their skill development compared to those who did not take part in placements, whilst those in specialist careers felt less benefit.”
• What actually works to enhance graduate employability? The relative value of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular learning and paid work (2020, background): “…between employability and employment outcomes means investing in a degree does not always ‘pay off’ in employment terms (Burke et al. 2017; Wilton 2012) and individuals and their attending institutions may not always see the immediate returns on investing significantly in quality…”
• The million-dollar question: can internships boost employment? (2018, background): “As to the former, existing research tends to report findings mainly based on data from one specific subject area (see, for example, Alpert, Heaney and Kuhn 2009; Wilton 2012; Callanan and Benzing 2004) or from one particular HEI (Crebert et al.”
• The contribution of work-integrated learning to undergraduate employability skill outcomes (2013, unknown): “WIL is widely assumed to enhance employability skill outcomes in undergraduates (Wilton, 2012) and be of critical importance to employability and workreadiness (see Dacre Pool & Sewell, 2007).”
• Fostering Graduate Employability: Rethinking Tanzania’s University Practices (2021, background): “Indeed, scholars have credited WIL with enhancing the employability of graduates (Clarke, 2018; Wilton, 2012) and augmenting their possibility of employment (Artess et al., 2017).”