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This open access book offers critical, multidisciplinary analyses on graduate employability. The book examines employability at the macro, meso and micro levels: higher education policy, the labour market, higher education institutions, organisations, individuals and social groups, in European, Nort...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Siivonen, Päivi (Editor), Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka (Editor), Tomlinson, Michael (Editor), Korhonen, Maija (Editor), Haltia, Nina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:
Education and state.
Education, Higher.
Professional education.
Vocational education.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Education Policy.
Higher Education.
Professional and Vocational Education.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Rethinking graduate employability in context
  • PART 1
  • 2.Graduate employability and its basis in possessive individualism
  • 3. Relative employability: Applying the insights of positional competition and conflict theories within the current higher education landscape
  • 4. Boosting employability through fostering an entrepreneurial mindset: Critical analysis of employability and entrepreneurship in EU policy documents
  • 5. The affective life of neoliberal employability discourse
  • 6. Grounding employability in both agency and collective identity: an emancipatory agenda for higher education
  • PART 2 - 7.Are graduates working in graduate occupations? Insights from the Portuguese labour market
  • 8. Institutionalisation of employability capitals in employment markets
  • 9. The vocational drift of French higher education and the employability of graduates
  • 10. Re-framing employability as a problem of perceived opportunities: The case of internships in a U.S. college using the Student Perceptions of Employment Opportunities (SPEO) framework
  • 11. Working-Class Adult Students: Negotiating Inequalities in the Graduate Labour Market
  • PART 3 - 12. Health as employability potential in business graduates' career imagination
  • 13. Finnish university students constructing their ideal employable identities - a case study of Top Performing Experts
  • 14. Strategies undertaken by international graduates to negotiate employability
  • 15. Employability as self-branding in job search games: A case of Finnish business graduates
  • 16. Negotiating (employable) graduate identity - Small story approach in qualitative follow-up research
  • 17. Epilogue.

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