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Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Migrant academics' teaching, research and leadership knowledge and skills are essential and valued in their host higher education institutions, globally. However, there is limited evidence on understanding migrant academics' career capital experiences in Australian universities. Drawing on a career capital framework, this qualitative study…
Descriptors: Migrants, Social Capital, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Abhilasha Singh; Patrick Blessinger – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences between labour market requirements in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the 21st century and university graduates' level of knowledge, skills and aspects of competence (KSAs) qualification benchmark. Design/methodology/approach: The study used a discourse analysis methodology,…
Descriptors: Employment, Student Interests, Labor Market, College Graduates
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Campbell, Edward V. – MEXTESOL Journal, 2020
This study compares the beliefs and practices of Mexican university students with conventions of resume writing in English. Due to the nonexistence of a single definitive source on resume writing and the differences between conventions in English-speaking countries and in Mexico, students may make incorrect assumptions. Forty up-to-date, credible…
Descriptors: Resumes (Personal), Writing Assignments, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
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Liu, Dian – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
In the expanded higher education in China, middle-class students are found to have better access to job information than their underprivileged counterparts; they also gain better jobs in the labour market. Researchers have turned to social capital theory to explain this phenomenon, claiming that middle-class students with wider social network and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, College Graduates, Middle Class
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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
Weatherill, Pamela; Boyd, Elizabeth Reid – 2001
A study investigated job search literacies for a small sample of Western Australian youth currently seeking employment. Participants were 10 females and 4 males aged 15-24. The research design involved the presentation of job search information and exercises to develop literacy competencies in a participative workshop format. Participants…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Functional Literacy