Graduate employment programmes offer university students the prospect of a reasonable salary and development opportunities. For employers, such talent pipeline means to identify future leaders. The psychological contract which develops during recruitment processes creates high expectations on both sides bargain. A corollary is that graduate usually entail highly competitive, multi-stage selecti...

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...

OBJECTIVES This study identified perceived employability trajectories and their associations with sleeping difficulties and depressive symptoms over time. METHODS The sample was part of the Swedish Longitudinal Survey on Health from 2008 to 2014 (n=4,583). RESULTS Two stable trajectories (high and low perceived employability over time) and three trajectories with changes (increasing, decrea...

The graduate employability has seen most governments, institutions of higher learning and industries engaging each other, as feel universities colleges are churning out graduates that not work ready. This led to many strands the discourse employability. One strand is whether education should produce work-ready graduates. Another on how these can make their ready, if it an expectation be There a...

Our paper addresses the analysis of how collaboration between HEIs and companies affects employability students. We approach from a social capital theoretical framework, perspective companies, investigating intensity as well diversity mechanisms used, satisfaction employers in graduates companies. use database on ‘Employers’ perception graduate employability’ Flash Eurobarometer European Commis...

Improving perceptions of graduate utility is fundamental to Higher Education’s employability and skills agenda. However, enhancement a ubiquitous consequence all learning. Therefore, motivating students engage in deep learning improve their problematic. Using the student voice, this article, I explain how prompts endorsing marginalism as benefit attaining superior with higher subjective value i...