organisation (Harvey, 1999) Stage 2: Dimensions Nature of employment Range of attributes: Financially rewarding Time after graduation teamworking Interesting Income communication Delegated Discipline risk taking, etc. responsibility Stage 3: Indicators Is the graduate Teamworking: E.g. delegated (examples) employed? experience of working responsibility: Is the employment: in teams; control over flexible linked to degree experience of leading working; subject? teams; specify direction; Does it involve ability to play different make strategic graduate skills? roles in different teams decisions… Does it have scope to simultaneously, etc. be ‘grown’? State 4: Selection Is the graduate Set of key attributes, Set of indicators of job employed within six which may have a satisfaction …. months of graduating? discipline-specific element Stage 5: Instruments Survey of recent Evaluation of Satisfaction survey of graduates employment graduates’ abilities. graduates in work activity Stage 6: Decision Simple indicator of Complex set of Array of single employment indicators of graduate indicators of graduate abilities satisfaction Figure 1: A bullet’ model of employability development ‘magic Figure 2: A model of employability-development and employment
organisation (Harvey, 1999) Stage 2: Dimensions Nature of employment Time after graduation Income Discipline Range of attributes: teamworking communication risk taking, etc. Financially rewarding Interesting Delegated responsibility Stage 3: Indicators (examples) Is the graduate employed? Is the employment: linked to degree subject? Does it involve graduate skills? Does it have scope to be ‘grown’? Teamworking: experience of working in teams; experience of leading teams; ability to play different roles in different teams simultaneously, etc. E.g. delegated responsibility: control over flexible working; specify direction; make strategic decisions… State 4: Selection …. Is the graduate employed within six months of graduating? Set of key attributes, which may have a discipline-specific element Set of indicators of job satisfaction Stage 5: Instruments Survey of recent graduates employment activity Evaluation of graduates’ abilities. Satisfaction survey of graduates in work Stage 6: Decision Simple indicator of employment Complex set of indicators of graduate abilities Array of single indicators of graduate satisfaction Figure 1: A ‘magic bullet’ model of employability development Figure 2: A model of employability-development and employment
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