The Role of Work Experience in the Future Employability of Higher Education Graduates
By R. Helyer, Dionne Lee. 2014
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Many new graduates are finding it difficult to obtain graduate-level work and impossible to break into the sectors they were aiming at. In order to address this, higher education institutions are examining the methods they use to enhance student employability and deploying various measures to grow and strengthen this activity, with an increasing focus on providing work experience. One popular way of doing this is via internships (placements). This paper examines the context in which work experience has come to the fore as an approach to enhancing employability by interrogating recent research and policy related to this agenda. Employability is presented as an on-going debate that cannot be viewed as a finite entity but must move and develop with the market, society and the global situation. In addition the paper closely examines a graduate internship programme in a university in North East England. Comparing and contrasting findings from this scheme, with other examples of experiential learning through work experience, provides some evidence to suggest the value of internships and furthermore supports some formative ideas about how internships might be developed to best serve those taking part in them: interns, employers and universities.
Subfields: Education, Management of Technology and Innovation, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
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- Learning through reflection: the critical role of reflection in work-based learning (WBL) (2015, background): “It is also used to encompass the generic skills that all employers look for when deciding who to employ and who to promote (Confederation of British Industry, 2012; Helyer and Lee, 2014).”
- Understanding students’ motivation towards proactive career behaviours through goal-setting theory and the job demands–resources model (2018, background): “Graduates face an increasingly competitive labour market, and many difficulties in finding employment (Tomlinson 2012; Helyer and Lee 2014).”
- Employability: A review of the literature 2012-2016 (2017, background): “4.2.3 Graduate internships and other informal work experiences Although not an embedded part of a higher education programme, an internship scheme for recent graduates who studied a business degree at a university in north-east England was examined by Helyer and Lee (2014).”