Career readiness: developing graduate employability capitals in aspiring media workers

نویسندگان

چکیده

Teaching students aspiring to media work presents the educator with a fundamental dilemma. On one hand, require knowledge and skills necessary find sustain employment within existing industry practices, systems structures. other need be prepared for uncertain shifting nature of work, highly problematic aspects some those selfsame How do you ensure former without condoning or under-playing latter? An overly theoretical critical education risks producing graduates unprepared practicalities employment. instrumental lacking responsiveness resilience required drive career over time, ability recognise, navigate challenge systemic problems these industries. This article approaches dilemma from UK perspective, through consideration notion employability, interpreted as readiness. It advocates five interrelated forms graduate capital: human capital; social cultural psychological capital identity capital. The argues that their application workers, in particular, provides valuable conceptual framework educators concerned finding an approach employability is both critical.

برای دانلود رایگان متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Social career management: Social media and employability skills gap

Social capital theorists have established decades ago that better connected people do better in life. The emergence of online social networking sites have given a new impetus to building and exploiting connections for career management. While professionals acknowledge that social networking is essential for business and development, new graduates coming into the corporate world are not equipped...

متن کامل

Employability in Construction Career Counseling Using Life Design Paradigm

Changes in the current world of work require the use of new personalization capabilities such as employability. A dynamic approach is required to encourage people to creatively think and redesign needs, interests and life experiences. The aim of the present study was the effectiveness of group career counseling based on life design on employability. The research method was semi-experimental, an...

متن کامل

The Representation of Social Actors in the Graduate Employability Issue: Online News and the Government Document

This paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in Malaysia as construed in public discourse in English, a language of power in Malaysia. The term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of Malaysia, the English-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Education and Work

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1469-9435', '1363-9080']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2021.1931666