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Author : Joshua Steven Martin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (877 download)
Download or read book College Students' Perceptions of Employability Skills and Job Preparedness written by Joshua Steven Martin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Antonio Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Employability Skills in the Undergraduate Business Curriculum and Job Market Preparedness written by Patrick Antonio Williams and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Hillage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780855228897
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Employability written by J. Hillage and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kaye Bernard McGarry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book An Examination of Perceived Employability Skills Between Employers and College Graduates written by Kaye Bernard McGarry and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting college to career has been one of the goals of higher education since the founding in 1636 of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. A skilled workforce is still dependent on the preparation that colleges offer their students. However, in today's rapidly-changing technological and global world, many businesses are finding that college graduates they hire are under-prepared to enter the workforce with the needed skill sets (Abernathy, 2014; McIntire & McLester, 2006; Needleman, 2014; Zeiss, 2005). They may be prepared academically, but may be lacking in soft skills, such as analytical reasoning, interpersonal skills, self-discipline, managing time, money, and resources, as well as communication and technology skills. This research study used survey research and quantitative methods to determine the differences between employer's perceptions of needed skill sets and college students' perceptions of acquired skill sets obtained during their studies. This correlational quantitative research study design identified nine skill sets obtained within the Employability Skills Framework (U.S. Department of Education, 2012) with 39 subscale identifying factors or skills. A sample of small, medium, and large corporations with offices in a large city in the United States was surveyed using a Likert scale to determine which skills identified within each set of skills were most needed in their organizations as they hire newly-graduated college students. A student survey was administrated at one large four-year public research university as they prepared to graduate and enter the workforce. The potential threats to validity and reliability included low-response rate, non-response, outliers, and adequate size of employer and student samples. The survey questionnaire provided the data needed to interpret the results. Survey results were collected via a web-based survey, SurveyGizmo, which exported data in SPSS format. All statistical analyses of the quantitative results were conducted with the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software (IBM SPSS) Version 22. This study shed light upon the potential need for higher education administrators and employers to build meaningful partnerships for a mutual goal: to ensure that graduates possess the skill sets desired in the current workforce and beyond.
Author : Patrick J. Minogue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Student Perceptions of Employability Skills written by Patrick J. Minogue and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to assess the employability skills of students and recent graduates from the University of Missouri's Parks, Recreation & Tourism Department. Employers are growing wary of incoming graduates that lack transferable skills (Yorke, 2006). Therefore, it is necessary for higher education institutions to assess student learning and see where improvements can be made. The participants in this study perceived that the following skills were in need of curriculum enhancement: "making decisions on the basis of thorough analysis of a situation," "communicating ideas verbally to peers," "identifying the essential components of a problem" and "resolving conflicts". Studies of this nature will continue to be performed by the University of Missouri's Parks, Recreation & Tourism Department in order to assess and improve student learning.
Author : Susan Elizabeth Bristow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781303620072
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Workforce Preparedness of Information Systems Students written by Susan Elizabeth Bristow and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employers of newly hired higher education graduates report their new workforce is not prepared. Further research was required to discover insights to the workforce readiness gap. This concurrent mixed methods study explored what competencies influenced employer's perceptions of the work-readiness of Information Systems (ISYS) undergraduate students and discovered ISYS graduates' and current ISYS students' perceptions of their work-readiness. Participants consisted of a convenience sample including 69 ISYS program upperclassmen, 20 ISYS program alumni, and 8 employers of the ISYS program graduates. ISYS program alumni completed an online Qualtrics survey to measure the participants' perception of their workforce preparedness. ISYS program upperclassmen completed a similar paper-based survey to measure the students' current perception of their workforce readiness. Employers of ISYS program graduates were interviewed to determine (1) how they defined workforce readiness, (2) the competencies associated with being workforce-ready, and (3) the degree to which the Sam M. Walton College of Business graduates demonstrated workforce readiness. The instrument used in this study was adopted from the employer survey used in the Are They Really Ready to Work?: Employers' Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century U.S. Workforce report by Casner-Lotto, Barrington, & Wright (2006) and the Ill-Prepared U.S. Workforce: Exploring the Challenges of Employer-Provided Workforce Readiness Training report by Casner-Lotto, Rosenblum, & Wright (2009). The reports were produced by ASTD, The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and SHRM. Research findings demonstrated 91% of ISYS program alumni and 86.9% of upperclassmen believed they were adequately to well prepared for the workforce by the ISYS program. Additionally, 75% of ISYS graduates' employers felt the students were adequately to somewhat well prepared for the workforce. Workforce readiness skills measured in this study included English Language (spoken), Writing in English, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Collaboration/Working with Others, Computer/Technical, Project Management, Knowledge within Major, General Business Knowledge, Willingness to Learn, Ability to Learn, Responsibility/Dependability, Initiative, Attitude Toward Work, Attendance/Punctuality, and Other skills not mentioned.
Author : Fritz Leiber
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1568063865
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (68 download)
Download or read book What Work Requires of Schools written by Fritz Leiber and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concludes that all American high school students must develop a new set of competencies and foundation skills; that qualities of high performance that characterize the most competitive companies must become the standard for the majority of all companies; and American schools must be transformed into high-performance organizations in their own right. Describes the skills and personal qualities that workers need in order to be competent, and the productive use of resources, interpersonal skills, information, systems and technology by effective workers. Illustrated.
Author : Colleen K. Mileham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Students' Self-perceptions of Employability Skills written by Colleen K. Mileham and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Perception of Career Readiness Skill Development in College Seniors written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As universities and colleges around the world strive to provide rigorous academic instruction, they are also preparing their students to enter into the world of work. According to research conducted by American College Test (ACT), Americans value education because they believe it will provide economic benefit to those that participate in the system. By the year 2018, the majority of newly created jobs in the United States of America (U.S.) are likely to require a college degree (Matter, Burrus, Camara, O'Connor, Hansen, Gambrell, Casillas, & Bobek, 2014). This fact suggests that in order for students to be prepared to enter the world of work they must possess the competencies and skills needed to be successful. This study explores student's perceptions of their career readiness development in relation to their engagement with career resources and programming. A mixed methods approach was used to assess undergraduate seniors at a four-year public institution. This study provides insight regarding which of the eight competencies as defined by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) students feel they have the most development in preparation for their future career paths. The findings reveled that students that utilized career services during their senior year felt more confident in their career readiness skill development. This survey has important implications for career offices that want to assess programming and services to develop a competency-based framework.
Author : Michael Tomlinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137571683
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Graduate Employability in Context written by Michael Tomlinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the highly significant and contested area of graduate employability and employment which is paid so much attention by those in the media and policy-makers. This is driven largely by concerns over the wider economic impact and value of graduates as increasing numbers complete their studies in higher education. At a time when graduates are seen as key to economic success, the critical question remains as to how their employability plays out in a changing labour market. This book brings together innovative approaches and research to present an extensive survey of the field. It provides insight on what is a complex and often elusive social and economic problem, ranging from how graduate employability is constructed as an economic and policy agenda to explorations of how graduates manage the transition from higher education to paid employment and finally to suggest future directions for curricula, policy and research.
Author : Ulrich Teichler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087907567
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Higher Education and the World of Work written by Ulrich Teichler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does higher education offer to make students competent actors in the world of work and other life spheres? This issue is most controversially debated in economically advanced countries since about four decades when higher education in economically advanced countries began to serve larger ranges of the occupational pyramid than merely the intellectually and professionally chosen few. The author of this volume analyzes a broad range of issues over four decades of his academic career. Employers’ and graduate surveys, secondary analyses of education and employment statistics as well as analyses of policy and academic debates form the basis of the key argument: Neither trust in expectations formulated by employers or in income and status as measures of successful study nor isolated claims for the pursuit of academic knowledge for its own sake and for the critical functions of higher education are a suitable reference frame for understanding the dynamic links between higher education and the world of work. A “match” between the number of graduates and the corresponding positions or between the competences acquired during study and job requirements cannot be expected. Students are more ambitious and strive for a broader range of goals than they can expect to be rewarded. Graduates have to be both highly qualified experts and sceptics as far as conventional wisdom is concerned, and they have to be prepared for indeterminate tasks. Key themes of this collection of essays are: the causes and consequences of an imperfect “match” between higher education and employment; the tensions between “employment” and “work” orientation in higher education; opportunities of a “highly educated society”; the dynamics of the variety of students, the patterns of the higher education system and the horizontal and vertical diversity of careers; different notions of higher education and the world of work among economically advanced countries; major controversial notions of professional relevance of study in policy and research debates.
Author : Jung Cheol Shin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319126733
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia written by Jung Cheol Shin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses mass higher education development in East Asian countries by means of three main issues: the strategy for higher education development; the way professors and students in the region are experiencing the rapid developments; and the challenges imposed by mass higher education. These challenges include the quality of education as well as structural changes in the rapidly developing systems, funding sources for supporting mass higher education, and job markets for college graduates. Part I discusses how the East Asian countries have accomplished or are in the process of accomplishing the rapid development of higher education. Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong serve as case studies of mass higher education in the region. The case studies introduce and discuss national strategies to develop higher education, funding sources and mechanisms, and initiatives to assure quality of education in a period of rapid growth. Part II and Part III of the book focus on the phenomena of mass higher education in the region and the influence on academia. Mass higher education changes professors and students, who are different from those in elite higher education. Part III further discusses the challenges posed to Asian mass higher education. The Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education (HESIG) has awarded Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia the Higher Education SIG Best Book Award 2015.
Author : Jeremy Burrus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199373221
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Building Better Students written by Jeremy Burrus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses issues surrounding workforce readiness in the 21st century. Leading experts from psychology, education, and the workforce present cutting-edge research on the topic. Building Better Students stands at the forefront of offering readers promising new directions for reducing the emerging skills gap.
Author : Peter Knight
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415303422
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Learning, Curriculum and Employability in Higher Education written by Peter Knight and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone with a responsibility for curriculum development or policy making within higher education who wants to advance learning and promote employability amongst their students will find this book absolutely essential reading.
Author : Joy Higgs
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004400834
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Education for Employability (Volume 1) written by Joy Higgs and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities are expected to produce employable graduates. In Education for Employability, experts explore critical questions in the employability agenda: Who sets the standards and expectations of employability? How do students monitor their own employability? How can universities design whole curricula and university environments that promote employability? What teaching and learning strategies facilitate the development of employability? Responsibility for developing and sustaining employability lies with a broad coalition of the individual students, the university, alumni, the professions and industry and is accomplished through the intended curriculum as well as co-curricular, extra-curricular and supra-curricular activities, events and learning opportunities.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264105662
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Career Guidance and Public Policy Bridging the Gap written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OECD countries are attaching rising importance to lifelong learning and active employment policies as tools of economic growth and social equity. Effective information and guidance systems are essential to support the implementation of these ...
Author : Frank Newman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470730625
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Future of Higher Education written by Frank Newman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful look at the risks inherent in the trend toward making higher education a market rather than a regulated public sector, The Future of Higher Education reveals the findings of an extensive four-year investigation into the major forces that are transforming our American system of higher education. The book explores the challenges of intensified competition among institutions, globalization of colleges and universities, the expansion of the new for-profit and virtual institutions, and the influence of technology on learning. This important resource offers college and university leaders and policy makers an analysis of the impact of these forces of change and includes suggestions for creating an effective higher education market as well as a call for a renewed focus on the public purposes of higher education.
