What key skills are essential for graduate employability?
The top ten skills graduate recruiters want
- Commercial awareness (or business acumen) This is about knowing how a business or industry works and what makes a company tick.
- Communication.
- Teamwork.
- Negotiation and persuasion.
- Problem solving.
- Leadership.
- Organisation.
- Perseverance and motivation.
What is the Graduate Employability Framework?
Graduate Employability means that higher education alumni have the developed capacity to obtain and/or create work. This framework is designed for students, graduates, employers, higher education academics and career development professionals based on the data from over 700 surveys and 85 interviews/focus groups.
What do graduate employers want?
Employers are looking for a mix of technical ability – whether it’s developing databases, calculating co-ordinates or writing reports – and ‘soft’ skills such as teamwork, communication, leadership, and commercial awareness.
How can graduate employability be improved?
Get work experience. Experts generally agree that the best way a fresh graduate can improve their employability is by getting work experience. These experiences can come in the form of internships or part-time jobs.
What do employers look for in graduates?
Talent. Employers are looking for a mix of technical ability – whether it’s developing databases, calculating co-ordinates or writing reports – and ‘soft’ skills such as teamwork, communication, leadership, and commercial awareness.
What is Graduate capital model?
The Graduate Capital Model was originally created by Dr Michael Tomlinson, Associate Professor, in the School of Education. There are five capitals in Tomlinson’s model: Human Capital, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Psychological Capital and Identity Capital.
What strengths are employers looking for?
The top 5 skills employers look for include:
- Critical thinking and problem solving.
- Teamwork and collaboration.
- Professionalism and strong work ethic.
- Oral and written communications skills.
- Leadership.
Which is a key strategy for promoting graduate employability?
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is considered a key strategy for promoting graduate employability. Graduate employability is a complex concept, one which has broadened in recent years to encapsulate a diverse range of skills, attributes, and other measures such as networks, professional-identity and active citizenship.
What is the role of employability in higher education?
Such supports, while critical, have resourcing implications for higher education, including impacts on staff workload which also need to be considered. Employability is considered in relation to the related construct of employment outcomes, pointing to ways in which these two perspectives can be better integrated.
How is employability considered in relation to employment outcomes?
Employability is considered in relation to the related construct of employment outcomes, pointing to ways in which these two perspectives can be better integrated. Content may be subject to copyright.
Why are Wil experiences important in the curriculum?
The importance of embedding WIL experiences in the curriculum so they are effectively supported by appropriate pedagogical strategies is emphasized, as well as the provision of quality assessment to support employability outcomes.
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