Employability is important to local, national and international labour market contexts, parameters and policies. As well as impacting workforces, employability is an essential characteristic of workers. It is very important that employability is understood and enacted as personal employability not just employment of individuals. We have found that employability is defined as much, if not more, by mindset rather than skillset. Part of this mindset involves recognising the unknowns of future work and an even bigger part is recognising our responsibilities as workers and educators lies in shaping... Show more
Employability is important to local, national and international labour market contexts, parameters and policies. As well as impacting workforces, employability is an essential characteristic of workers. It is very important that employability is understood and enacted as personal employability not just employment of individuals. We have found that employability is defined as much, if not more, by mindset rather than skillset. Part of this mindset involves recognising the unknowns of future work and an even bigger part is recognising our responsibilities as workers and educators lies in shaping our own employability and that of the novice learners and workers in our spaces of influence and communities of practice. This book continues on from the discussions of 'Education for employability (volume 1): the employability agenda' [available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 137.1093] to explore education for employability in a variety of spaces: in the context of higher education as an entrance into the workforce, in joining communities of practice and in the lifelong pursuit of employability - preparing people for a portfolio of careers rather than a job-for-life.
Edited excerpt from publisher's website.
The contents are as follows: Part one, 'The future and employability', contains the following chapters: The employability agenda / Geoffrey Crisp, Joy Higgs and Will Letts (pages 3-12); Practice futures / Joy Higgs (pages 13-20); University employability agendas, targets and strategies / Will Letts (pages 21-36); Digital literacy meets Industry 4.0 / Jo Coldwell-Neilson and Trudi Cooper (pages 37-50); Addressing key concerns in graduate employability: changing our expectations of universities / Noel Edge, Edmond Fitzgerald and Lesley Willcoxson (pages 51-64). Part two, 'Education directions', contains: Developing personal and population employability: understand, pursue and manage / James Cloutman and Joy Higgs (pages 67-80); Pursuing employability: a journey more than a destination / Will Letts (pages 81-88); Going beyond 'getting a job': graduates' narratives and lived experiences of employability and their career development / Ruth Bridgstock, Michelle Grant-Iramu, Christine Bilsland, Matalena Tofa, Kate Lloyd and Denise Jackson (pages 89-104); Marketing graduate employability: the language of employability in higher education / Dawn Bennett, Elizabeth Knight, Aysha Divan and Kenton Bell (pages 105-116); Taking a whole of university approach to employability / Shirley Alexander, Julieanne Cutrupi and Brett Smout (pages 117-132); Building student employability from day one / Leoni Russell and Judie Kay (pages 133-142); Reimagining university curriculum for a disrupted future of work: partnership pedagogy / Simon Barrie and Jenny Pizzica (pages 143-152).
Part three, 'Teaching and learning employability', contains the following chapters: Pursuing employability through generalist and specialist degree programs: Australian perspectives / Deanne Gannaway and Karen Sheppard (pages 155-166); The place of student assessment in pursuing employability / David Boud and Rola Ajjawi (pages 167-178); Career services: roles beyond job seeking / Mark Young (pages 179-188); Edupunks and universities: employability engagement possibilities / Joy Higgs (pages 189-202); Understanding employability in the creative industries / Noel Maloney (pages 203-214); Learning to be employable: the UNSW Hero Program / Anatoli Kovalev (pages 215-226); Learning for employability in the workplace: developing graduate work capabilities / Lina Markauskaite and Narelle Patton (pages 227-236); Teaching resilience and self-management skills: fostering student psychological wellbeing for future employability / Rachael Field (pages 237-246). Part four, 'Reflections', contains: Reimagining careers, contributions and professional development in later life / Nita Cherry, Janet Gregory, Alison Herron and HElen McKernan (pages 249-262); Where to next with the employability agenda? / Geoffrey Crisp, Joy Higgs and Will Letts (pages 263-272).
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