The relative importance of work experience, extra-curricular and university-based activities on student employability

Declining graduate labour markets, perceived devaluing of degree qualifications, and intense focus on employment metrics have increased pressure universities to enhance their students’ employability. Formal curricula developments been accompanied by co-curricular extra-curricular offerings intended career readiness emerging profiles. Using survey data from undergraduate postgraduate students in an Australian UK university (N = 352), multivariate techniques examined participation employability-related activities perceptions importance for Data revealed differential based student profile characteristics the type activity undertaken. Overall, these were valued boosting a range facets, including networks, learning about future attractiveness employers. The more aligned outcomes, they ascribed. implications findings enhancing are discussed.