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Teychenne, Megan; Parker, Kate; Teychenne, Danielle; Sahlqvist, Shannon; Macfarlane, Susie; Costigan, Sarah – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2019
Indecisiveness and negative thinking regarding career pathways can hinder university students' career planning, motivation, and mental health. Students intending to enter the workforce after graduation therefore need to develop skills related to career adaptability (i.e. career planning, decision-making, problem solving/confidence and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Career Planning, Employment Potential
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Guitert, Montse; Romeu, Teresa; Colas, Jean-François – Cogent Education, 2020
Digital competence is a transversal key competence increasingly required by the labour market as well as by the job search process itself, most of which has now shifted online. Individuals who have not developed the most basic digital technology skills are most at risk for long-term unemployment. We argue that to bridge the skills gap of…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Employment Potential, Employment Programs, Competency Based Education
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Rallón, Ana Olga; Peñaloza-Rallón, Anna Carolina – HOW, 2021
In this pedagogical proposal, we utilized Feminist Pedagogy and narratives to reveal women's skills that they had silenced in their cover letters for employment. Five females' narratives were analyzed using aspects of the grounded theory method to answer the question: "What do women's narratives reveal about their personal skills otherwise…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development, Writing (Composition), Feminism
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Kent, Alexandra; Skipper, Yvonne – Psychology Teaching Review, 2015
Improving students' psychological literacy has become a key part of the new British Psychological Society accreditation. This is fuelling an emphasis on helping students to apply their degree knowledge critically and innovatively, both to enhance their chances in a competitive job market and to give them the skills to make a real-world difference.…
Descriptors: Psychology, Knowledge Level, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
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Smart, Karl L. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2004
No matter how skilled students may be, those skills will not lead to a job if potential employers do not know the applicant has them. Job seekers--using a strategy of age-old rhetoric--must provide concrete, detailed support to demonstrate the skills they possess. Because many recruiters feel that the best predictor of future performance is past…
Descriptors: Job Applicants, Job Search Methods, Employment, Problem Solving
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Wentling, Rose Mary – Journal of Studies in Technical Careers, 1987
Although vocational education students can handle technical tasks, they often lack employability skills. The author identifies employability skills, addresses important questions about them, and recommends action for vocational educators to take in teaching employability skills. (JOW)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Employee Attitudes, Employee Responsibility, Employment Potential
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Roessler, Richard T.; And Others – Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, 1988
The article describes employability assessment and intervention packages recently developed by the Arkansas Research and Training Center in Vocational Rehabilitation. Counselors can incorporate the employability products into transitional services for disabled students to increase social, vocational, problem-solving, decision-making, on-the-job…
Descriptors: Coping, Decision Making, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
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Shores, Doris – Academe, 1984
A participant in a career transition workshop for 10 former college faculty members gives an account of the sometimes difficult process of changing perspectives, attitudes, and problem-solving techniques from academe to the world of business and of learning practical job search methods. (MSE)
Descriptors: Business Administration, Career Change, College Faculty, College Instruction