Self-perceived employability: development and validation of a scale

By Andrew Rothwell, J. Arnold. 2007

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Purpose – Employability concerns the extent to which people possess the skills and other attributes to find and stay in work of the kind they want. It is thought by many to be a key goal for individuals to aim for in managing their careers, and for organisations to foster in workforces. The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of a self‐report measure of individuals' perceived employability. It also seeks to examine its construct validity and correlates.Design/methodology/approach – Based on the analysis of relevant literature, this study developed 16 items which were intended collectively to reflect employability within and outside the person's current organisation, based on his or her personal and occupational attributes. This study administered these items by questionnaire to 200 human resources professionals in the UK, along with established measures of career success and professional commitment, as well as questions reflecting demographic variables.Findings – This article retained 11...

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

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The route to employability: Examining resources and the mediating role of motivation (2012, background): “Employability Employability refers to worker’s ability to obtain and/or retain a job (Forrier and Sels, 2003; Rothwell and Arnold, 2007).”
Age effects on the employability-career success relationship (2009, background): “Stimulating workers’ employability throughout their career appears to be advantageous for both employee and organizational outcomes (see also Fugate, Kinicki, & Ashforth, 2004; Rothwell & Arnold, 2007).”
It's All About CareerSKILLS: Effectiveness of a Career Development Intervention for Young Employees (2015, methodology): “The definition that we used in this study is that employability is “the ability to keep the job one has or to get the job one desires” (Rothwell & Arnold, 2007, p. 25).”
Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics (2017, methodology): “The use of subjective measures for assessing PE is common to other studies (Rothwell & Arnold, 2007) and the items performed successfully in later studies (see De Cuyper, Mauno, Kinnunen, & Mäkikangas, 2011; Kang, Gold, & Kim, 2012).”
The career resources model: an integrative framework for career counsellors (2012, background): “Finally, some researchers have investigated the concept of perceived employability, which basically represents a specific belief regarding one’s ability to gain or secure employment (Rothwell & Arnold, 2007).”
Student Perceptions of the Importance of Employability Skill Provision in Business Undergraduate Programs (2013, background): “Importantly, graduate employability is multi-faceted and encompasses academic performance, career management skills, and labour market awareness (Rothwell & Arnold, 2007), in addition to workplace learning (Billet, 2011), and personality theory (Rae, 2007).”
Strength in adversity: The influence of psychological capital on job search (2012, background): “…individuals' perception of how employable they are has profound consequences on their abilities to adapt to employment changes, their job search patterns, and their subjective well‐ being (Cuyper, Bernhard‐Oettel, Berntson, Witte, & Alarco, 2008; Rothwell & Arnold, 2007; Rothwell et al., 2008).”