Employability in a Knowledge-driven Economy

By P. Brown, A. Hesketh, S. Wiliams. 2002

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Subfields: Education, General Health Professions

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Impact of participation in extra-curricular activities during college on graduate employability: an empirical study of graduates of Taiwanese business schools (2014, background): “Brown, Hesketh, and Williams (2003) also point out that employability depends on economic conditions.”
The Opportunity Trap: Education and Employment in a Global Economy (2003, background): “However, this is not an option for the middle classes that need to translate their cultural advantage into ‘personal capital’ both in the form of ‘hard’ (credentials) and ‘soft’ (personal qualities) currency to be exchanged in the market for jobs (Brown et al, 2003, Brown & Hesketh, forthcoming).”
Graduates' employment and the discourse of employability: a critical analysis (2006, background): “As Michaels et al. (2001) suggest: ‘If organisations depend on the knowledge and skills of the workforce then power rests with those that have the knowledge, skills and insights that companies want’ (quoted in Brown et al., 2003, p. 108).”
The management paradox (2011, neutral): “skills, knowledge, competences; Brown et al. , 2003”
Employability: a contemporary review for higher education stakeholders (2018, background): “Due to the expansion of HE, a degree, at best, enables a job seeker to ‘stay in the race’ (Brown, Hesketh, and Williams 2003, 111).”
Employability during unemployment: Adaptability, career identity and human and social capital (2007, background): “Additionally, social capital provides individuals with access to networks, informational resources and social support during the job search process (Fugate et al., 2004; Seibert, Kraimer & Liden, 2001).”
Mapping knowledge in work: proxies or practices? (2006, background): “Mass higher education creates a mass of potential knowledge workers (Brown et al., 2003) who then stimulate demand for better jobs from employers (Layard, 1997).”
Employing discourse: universities and graduate ‘employability’ (2010, background): “ Brown, Hesketh and Williams (2003) argue that the ‘consensus theory’ of”
The route to employability: Examining resources and the mediating role of motivation (2012, background): “For instance, studies have examined the associations between demographic factors such as age and gender and employability (Forte and Hansvick, 1999; Nielsen, 1999; Patrickson and Ranzijn, 2003), and between issues related to training and education and employability (Benson, 2006; Brown et al., 2003;”
The student perspective on employability (2013, background): “Little (2001) raised the issue of whether employers behave rationally when recruiting graduates and suggested evidence to the contrary, a view supported by Brown, Hesketh, and Williams (2003).”