The Contribution of Part-Time Work Experience to Pre-Service Teachers' Development of Graduate Employability

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-47
Author(s):  
Tran Le Huu Nghia ◽  
Phuong Hoang Yen ◽  
Tran Le Kim Huong
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
English Language ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Work Integrated Learning ◽  
Part Time Work

Work-integrated learning (WIL) has been found to be effective in developing graduate employability. Working part-time while undertaking undergraduate studies may produce similar effects; however, its contribution to the development of students' employability has not yet been examined adequately. Therefore, this chapter will report a study investigating 22 Vietnamese pre-service teachers' experiences of how working as teaching assistants in commercial English language centers has contributed to their employability. Content analysis of semi-structured interviews revealed that part-time work experience elevated the pre-service teachers' specialized knowledge and skills, equipped them with soft skills, expanded their social networks, enhanced their adaptability to different work cultures, and modified their teacher identity. The chapter calls for universities to award credits for part-time work experience as a type of WIL, develop a mechanism for integrating it into curricula, and help graduates evidence their work experience to their future employers.

The influence of part-time work on graduates' careers

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Evans ◽  
Ceri Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Career Aspirations ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Small Element ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Part Time Work

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore university students' perceptions about career development in relation to their part-time working and to examine whether students maximise opportunities arising in their part-time job in order to enhance their personal profile and career aspirations.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured interviews were held with 20 degree students at a UK university. The interview was based around 19 questions, split into three sections: general; career and the part-time job.FindingsThe findings indicate that while students are aware that part-time work helps in developing personal skills, there is a lack of awareness on how part-time work can provide differentiation in the graduate jobs market and support long-term graduate careers. The conclusion discusses the implications of the findings suggesting greater awareness among students of how part-time work can drive work readiness and long-term career aspirations. It also recommends greater involvement of career advisors and university teaching colleagues in supporting this endeavour.Originality/valueWhile other papers on student working have included a small element regarding careers, this paper offers originality by focussing solely on the relationship between students' part-time work and career aspirations. Moreover, most works in this area have been quantitative studies, whereas this study is qualitatively-based.

Learn to Earn: A School Work-Experience Program

1973 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 219-221
Author(s):  
Dennis J. Huber
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Residential School ◽  
School Work ◽  
Sheltered Workshop ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Part Time Work ◽  
Work Experience Program

Students at a residential school for the blind are provided part-time work experience in the sheltered workshop operated by an agency for the blind. The guidelines by which the program is operated are included, as are the present plans for modifying and improving it.

Exploiting students’ part-time work to enhance learning, teaching and assessment

2020 ◽  
pp. 095042222093018
Author(s):  
Carl Evans
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
University Lecturers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Part Time Work

This article highlights an opportunity for teaching staff in universities to utilise students’ part-time work experience to enhance learning, teaching and assessment activities. Increasing numbers of university students are working part-time while studying and, as a consequence, there have been several academic studies highlighting the adverse impact of this practice on academic performance. This has led to suggestions for changes in educational policy, seeking either to reduce students’ term-time working or to eliminate it altogether. With a gearing to business management education, this viewpoint piece provides an argument for university lecturers to embrace students’ part-time work experience and use it to enhance the learning, teaching and assessment experience. The use of students’ own work experience extends the case study method, which is common in business teaching, to give greater control and therefore reassurance to students and so yield deeper learning. The approach also strengthens the relationship between higher education and industry in that it connects more cohesively students’ work experience and university study.

scholarly journals Adolescent Employment, Mental Health, and Suicidal Behavior: A Propensity Score Matching Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6835
Author(s):  
Hyerine Shin ◽  
Kyung hee Kim ◽  
Ji-su Kim ◽  
Eunkyung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Propensity Score ◽  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Part Time Work

This study aimed to confirm the relationships between part-time work experience, mental health, and suicidal behavior in adolescents. The impact of part-time work in this population is a controversial topic, perhaps because of the sociocultural background-related inconsistencies in previous results. In this cross-sectional study, which involved a secondary analysis of data from the 11th–13th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Surveys, conducted among 800 middle and high schools by the Korean government, we used propensity score matching analysis to minimize the impact of individual backgrounds on the findings concerning the relationships in question. Overall, part-time experience was significantly related to mental health problems and suicidal behavior even after eliminating background differences. Adolescents with part-time work experience had higher overall stress levels (odds ratio = 1.148; 95% confidence interval = 1.094, 1.205) than those without such experience, and more suicidal thoughts (odds ratio = 1.355; 95% confidence interval = 1.266, 1.450), suicide planning (odds ratio = 1.717; 95% confidence interval = 1.527, 1.929), and suicide attempts (odds ratio = 1.852; 95% confidence interval = 1.595, 2.151). Thus, it is important to pay increased attention to mental health and suicide-related issues in South Korean adolescents with part-time jobs.

Married Women in Part-Time Employment

ILR Review ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Long ◽  
Ethel B. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Direct Measures ◽  
Part Time Work

This research deals with three aspects of the part-time employment pattern of working wives: (1) the wives' characteristics, (2) the level and structure of their earnings in part-time jobs, and (3) the duration of their employment when part-time jobs are available to them. This study improves upon previous research by using multivariate analysis to determine if the variation in the incidence of part-time work consistently found in other studies persists when earnings potential, fertility, family income, and other factors that may vary by age or race are held constant. It differs further by including a data source that contains direct measures of market wages and experience for a large sample of married working women. The authors find that husband's income, family size, and the wife's health, race, and previous work experience are among the variables that influence the probability that the wife works part time. They also find that the level of wages and returns to some investments in human capital are relatively lower in the part-time labor market but that there are similarities between the earnings structure of part-time and full-time jobs. They conclude that part-time work opportunities appear to increase the length of the working life of married women.

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