An exploratory study of factors affecting undergraduate employability

By D. Finch, Leah K. Hamilton, R. Baldwin, M. Zehner. 2013

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An exploration of employer perceptions of graduate student employability (2018, background): “These results align with findings that employers value professional maturity among undergraduate students (Finch et al., 2013; Wyatt and Oswalt, 2013).”
Employability skills: Perspectives from a knowledge-intensive industry (2015, background): “In the current economic climate, employer demands centre on an expanded skills set, including the application of interpersonal and intrapersonal behaviours, to underpin the systemic innovation required for even medium‐ term business competitiveness (Stasz, 2001; Harvey, 2003; Casner‐Lotto and Barrin”
Rethinking graduate employability: the role of capital, individual attributes and context (2018, background): “For example, the importance of university reputation remains a contentious issue (Finch et al. 2013), however in some studies the status of the university from which a degree is obtained has been found to influence ‘gatekeepers’ in the recruitment process (Okay-Somerville and Scholarios 2014).”
Networking behaviour, graduate employability: a social capital perspective (2017, background): “Universities are thus under increasing pressure to enhance graduate employability at the same time as their resources are being squeezed (Avramenko, 2012; Finch et al., 2013; McMurray et al., 2016) and there are calls for more research into how this can be achieved (Bell, 2016; Finch et al., 2016).”