Signaling standout graduate employability: The employer perspective

The outcome-based learning for graduate employability in higher education has been an important research topic among the policymakers, academicians, and researchers over the years. Yet, no bibliometric review on this topic has been published. This study, for the first time, examines bibliometric analysis on this topic examining current research trend and future research agenda. The bibliometrix package in R software and VOSviewer software are used for visualization and interpretation of results. A content analysis is performed to manually examine the bibliometric results.

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Graduate employability: the higher education landscape in Australia

Higher Education Research & Development ◽

10.1080/07294360.2021.1877623 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Lynlea Small ◽

Ruth McPhail ◽

Amie Shaw

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Graduate Employability

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Addressing employability challenges of business graduates in Bangladesh: Evidence from an emerging economy perspective

Australian Journal of Career Development ◽

10.1177/1038416220986887 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 83-94

Author(s):

Mahi Uddin

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Emerging Economy ◽

Education Sector ◽

Quality Education ◽

System Quality ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Quality Teachers ◽

Business Graduates ◽

Graduate Employability ◽

Skill Gaps

This study aimed to explore and address the employability challenges of business graduates in the higher education sector in Bangladesh. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analysed applying thematic analysis (N = 35, 77% male, mean age = 34 years). Findings revealed that skill gaps, lack of quality education system, quality teachers, industry-university collaboration, backdated course curriculum, and corruption are important challenges for graduate employability in Bangladesh. The study suggests improving communication skills, updating course curriculum, curbing institutional corruption, limiting student-teacher politics, hiring and promoting quality teachers, and industry-university collaboration as strategies to improve graduate employability. The findings may help employers, managers, graduates, academics, and policymakers in the higher education sector to identify and address graduate employability challenges in an emerging economy such as Bangladesh.

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Study of graduate attributes of the university of Sydney and implications for building Chinese world-class universities

International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education ◽

10.1177/0020720920984311 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002072092098431

Author(s):

Rui Zhao ◽

Wan-Bing Shi

Keyword(s):

System Theory ◽

Comparative Study ◽

High Position ◽

Graduate Attributes ◽

Graduate Employability ◽

World Class ◽

World Class Universities ◽

The University ◽

Relationship Of

The graduate attributes of the University of Sydney innovatively include the enabling conceptions and the translation conceptions of attributes and ensure that they are specifically oriented, reasonably structured and comprehensively designed. These scientifically constructed graduate attributes of the University of Sydney prove strong efficiency by the university taking up a high position in QS Graduate Employability Rankings in recent years. Chinese top-level universities, in the process of building world-class universities, also face the task of revising the graduate attributes and substantially enhancing the quality of talents cultivation, and can, therefore, learn the successful experience to revise their own graduate attributes on the basis of universities’ history, vision and specialty, on the premise of a sound cognition of the connotation, levels, and relationship of graduate attributes, and by means of System Theory, Phenomenography and comparative study.

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Networking behaviour, graduate employability: a social capital perspective

Education + Training ◽

10.1108/et-06-2016-0100 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 59 (4) ◽

pp. 374-388 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Saša Batistic ◽

Alex Tymon

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Goal Orientation ◽

Career Guidance ◽

Business Students ◽

Social Capital Theory ◽

Full Time ◽

Access To Information ◽

Content Type ◽

Perceived Employability ◽

Graduate Employability

Purpose Drawing on the overarching framework of social capital theory, the purpose of this paper is to develop and empirically examine networking behaviour and employability within the higher education context. Design/methodology/approach In a sample of 376 full-time business students the authors measured perceived employability, networking behaviour, access to information and resources and job-search learning goal orientation (JSLGO). Findings The authors found networking is related to increased internal and external perceived employability by boosting access to information and resources. The results also demonstrate that networking is positively related to access to information and resources for low and high JSLGO, the relationship being stronger for those with higher levels. Research limitations/implications The results provide an enriched view of individual networking behaviour by offering an indirect model of networking outcomes and to the graduate employability and social capital literatures. Practical implications The findings may provide focus for individuals concerned with enhancing their employability and those involved in supporting career guidance. Originality/value Obvious beneficiaries are students, for whom employment is a key concern, and universities who face increasing pressure to enhance graduate employability whilst resources to do so are diminishing. To this end the authors highlight activities that may develop networking behaviours and JSLGO.

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