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Job type. For some employability is about securing any job, given that there is a view (Flanders, 1995) that it is no longer possible to delimit a ‘graduate job’. For others it implies getting a graduate-level job. They may be referred to as ‘fulfilling work’, or as a job that ‘requires graduate skills and abilities’ or as a ‘career-oriented’ job. Timing. Is employability signalled by getting a job within a specified time after graduating, or by doing so before there is any need for retraining? Attributes on recruitment. Does employabilty signify an ability to demonstrate desired attributes at the point of recruitment, to ‘hit the deck running’. Or, alternatively, is it developmental, indicating the likely ability to develop attributes (rapidly), to ‘get up to speed quickly’. Further learning. One view of employability holds that ‘the degree is not the end of learning’ and values graduates who are ready for further development, while another places more weight on achievement at graduation, while recognising the importance of ‘willingness to learn and continue learning’. ‘Employability skills’. Employability can be understood as the possession of basic ‘core-skills’, or an extended set of generic attributes, or attributes that a type of employer (discipline-linked, sector-related, company-type) specifies. Sometimes they get specified in detail or, more often, shorthand –‘key skills’, for example – is used. Very few definitions in use, or associated measures, explicitly identify employability as being equipped for a job. This is not necessarily because there is a single-minded approach that prioritises job acquisition over preparedness for employment. It is more likely that pragmatic measures prioritise job acquisition as it is easier to measure but, in