Ungeachtet der Frage, ob es sich bei der gegenwärtig in aller Mund befindlichen Employability um einen kurzlebigen Trendbegriff oder ein nachhaltiges Konzept handelt, umfasst sie inhaltlich doch etwas Zeitloses: Die Befähigung von Menschen im Berufsleben erfolgreich Fuß zu fassen und auch beschäftigt zu bleiben. Diese Berufsfähigkeit kann kein Modetrend sein, sondern muss zum Pflichtprogramm ei...

46 inpatients with a DSM-III diagnosis of schizophrenia were assessed in the week prior to discharge from hospital on measures of positive and negative symptoms and on 12 measures of employment interview skills (i.e., eye contact, facial gestures, body posture, verbal content, voice volume, length of speech, motivation, self-confidence, ability to communicate, manifest adjustment, manifest inte...

In the Australian VET sector and workplaces, the term generic skills now refers to the set of eight major skills and various personal attributes developed recently by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Business Council of Australia (2002), and which they referred to as employability skills.These employability skills are: self-management, team work, communicating, planning and o...

In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age of 40. A second observat...

ICS students seeking employment need to consider the balance of transferable and subject-specific technical skills required for employability. However, reflection upon individual skills gaps is often an uncomfortable experience for ICS students. The Placement Pitch project is being developed in one university to encourage students to diagnose their personal skills gaps and to take action to imp...

Citizens are increasingly are provided with choice and customization in public services and this has now also become a key feature of higher education in terms of policy roll-outs on personal development planning (PDP) and more generally as part of the employability agenda. The goal here is to transform people, in this case graduates, into active, responsible citizen-workers. A key part of this...

This paper aims to present an exploratory literature review from the “Education and Training” journal indexed in Scopus, which has published 99 articles about “Graduate Employability” 2005 2021. After cleaning, classifying reading these with NVIVO; As a result, we have found that authors utilize: quantitative, qualitative, mixed experimental methodology address problems related graduate attribu...

The research of employability shows tension in the social field of career, where variables such as market value, gender, and personal skills are important. The aim of this study was to identify the predicted weight of market value of type of occupation, sex, and career competences (self-efficacy, pro-activity, and locus of control) over objective employability and perceived opportunities for a ...

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...