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Description of  Developing and Utilizing Employability Capitals: Graduates Strategies across Labour Markets (Routledge Research in Higher Education)

Graduate employability is a significant concern for most higher education institutions worldwide. During the last two decades, universities have attempted to implement their employability agendas to support their students to enhance employment outcomes. However, within todays globalized labour markets, employability has gone far beyond the notion of obtaining stable and permanent employment. This book explores graduates experiences in developing and utilizing employability capitals for career development and success in different labour markets. In the chapters, the graduate contributors narrate and discuss how they negotiated their employability on the transitions across jobs, occupational sectors and labour markets. The chapters address key issues, including how employability is understood by graduates of different disciplines, at different career stages and in different contexts how they develop and utilise such capitals along with strategies to negotiate their employability and what can be done to move the higher education employability agenda forward. Read more