Graduate employability : a conceptual framework for understanding employers' perceptions

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Author	CAI, Yuzhuo
Title	Graduate employability : a conceptual framework for understanding employers' perceptions
Publication year	2013
Source/Footnote	In: Higher education. - 65 (2013) 4, S. 457 - 469
Inventory number	34361
Keywords	Bedarf an Akademikern ; Arbeitskräfte : allgemein
Abstract	This study provides a conceptual framework for understanding what employers think about the value of graduates with similar educational credentials in the workplace (their employability), using insights from the new institutionalism. In this framework, the development of employers? beliefs about graduates? employability is broken into a number of factors and mechanisms, including exogenous factors, initial signalling effects and the processes of both private and public learning. With such conceptualisation, this article discusses the implications for international higher education providers on how to improve their graduates? employment by influencing employers? beliefs. (HRK / Abstract übernommen) Cai, Yuzuhuo, E-Mail: yuzhuo.cai@uta.fi