Key Employability Skills

E-Skills, Competitiveness and Employability

In Europe in particular, the so-called Lisbon Strategy has enhanced efforts to mobilize active economic and social forces around education, innovation and knowledge intensive sectors and activities such as information and communications technologies. At the same time, European institutions and national governments have pursued their efforts to deepen and strengthen a European social model where...

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...

Towards an Efficient Approach for Examining Employability Skills

A student’s approach to an open-ended problem, one with no necessarily right or wrong answer, is crucial to their employability. Indeed the value of a mathematics graduate to an employer is in his/her problem solving skills, and exercises assessing these usually form part of graduate assessment days. The scope for open-ended problems within a mathematics degree is large, yet traditionally these...

Skills Are Not Binary: Nuances in the Relationship Between ICT Skills and Employability

In regions with developing or transitioning economies, information and communication technology (ICT) skills are expected to provide potential employees a signiacant edge in securing comparatively high-paying jobs. However, ICT skills are not binary (i.e., there are ranges and levels of ICT skills), nor are the effects of ICT skills common across all contexts. To plan international development ...

Enhancing the Learning and Employability of Graduates: the Role of Generic Skills