The SAGE Handbook of Graduate Employability

Tania Broadley, Yuzhuo Cai, Miriam Firth, Emma Hunt, John Neugebauer, Tania Broadley, Yuzhuo Cai, Miriam Firth, Emma Hunt, John Neugebauer, Author

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781529771848
• eBook ISBN: 9781529791051
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Careers

This Handbook brings together the latest research on graduate employability into one authoritative volume. Dedicated parts guide readers through topics, key issues and debates relating to delivering, facilitating, achieving and evaluating graduate employability. Chapters offer critical and reflective positions, providing examples of a range of student and graduate destinations, and cover a wide range of topics from employability development, to discipline differences, gender, race and inclusion issues, entrepreneurialism, and beyond.

Showcasing positions and voices from diverse communities, industries, political spheres and cultural landscape, this book will support the research of students, researchers and practitioners across a broad range of social science areas.

Part I Facilitating and Achieving Graduate Employability

Part II Segmenting Graduate Employability: Subject by Subject Considerations

Part III Graduate Employability and Inclusion

Part IV Country and Regional Differences

Part V Policy Makers? and Employers? Perceptions on Graduate Employability

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Endorsement
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Editors’ Introduction
• Part I Facilitating and Achieving Graduate Employability
• 1 Learning through Uncertainty: Team Learning and the Development of an Entrepreneurial Mindset
• 2 Employability Entrepreneurship for Leveraging Employability Capitals
• 3 Beyond the Data: Navigating the Struggles of Post-PhD Employability
• 4 Quality Assurance in University Careers Guidance – a Student Voice Case Study from The Open University
• 5 The Student Voice in Employability within Tertiary Business and Management Education
• 6 LinkedIn and Beyond – Social Media and Employability
• 7 Transitions from Education to Work: Impacts on Perceived Employability in Tourism and Hospitality
• 8 Ready to Get on Board? Facilitating Role Transition of New Graduates
• Part II Segmenting Graduate Employability: Subject by Subject
• 9 Integrated, Holistic and Inclusive: A Law School Employability and Skills Model Working to Maximise Opportunity and Support for All
• 10 We Need to Talk about Albert: Sustainability is Employability
• 11 Through Others We Become Ourselves: How Service-learning Develops Graduate Identity
• 12 The Graduate Project: A Model for Embedded Employability in Arts and Humanities Undergraduate Education
• 13 Informing the Curriculum: Graduate Employability Skills for the Tourism and Hospitality Industry in Australia during a Pandemic
• 14 The Teaching Performing Assessment (TPA) and Its Impact on Graduates’ Preparedness for Employment
• Part III Graduate Employability and Inclusion
• 15 Working towards Equitable Outcomes for All through Embedding Activities in the Curriculum
• 16 Supporting the Employability of Neurodivergent Graduates
• 17 Centring Racialised Experiences of Black Students to Mitigate Bias within Graduate Labour Recruitment and Selection Processes
• 18 Mind the Gap: Efforts to Narrow the Graduate Employment Gap for London Students from Low-participation Neighbourhoods
• 19 Are Higher Education Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds More or Less Confident than Their Peers? A Study of Perceived Employability with First-year Students at an Australian University
• 20 Critical ‘Employability’ within the Realms of Sociology – a Movement towards ‘Social Justice'
• Part IV Country and Regional Differences
• 21 The Impact of International Student Mobility on Employability
• 22 Transnational, Multinational, Binational? The Role of International Education in Human Capital Development for Graduate Employability
• 23 Graduate Employability during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• 24 Graduate Employability and the Labour-market Relevance of Norwegian Higher Education: Perspectives from Students
• 25 Starting Points and Journeys: Careers and Employability in a Data-Rich Environment
• Part V Policymakers’ and Employers’ Perspectives on the Practice of Graduate Employability
• 26 A Renewed Analytical Framework for Understanding Employers’ Perceptions of Graduate Employability: Integration of Capital and Institutionalist Perspectives
• 27 Higher Education Institution (HEI) Considerations to Support the Creation of Alliances with Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
• 28 A Living Agenda: The Role of Local Policy in Employability
• 29 The Role of Dual Education in Graduate Employability: The Comparison between Europe and Africa
• 30 All on the Same Page: The Impact and Importance of Professional Associations for Graduate Employability
• Index