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Terje Naess; Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen – European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
The future of the humanities has been the subject of debate in several countries where it is often stated that too many students are accepted into courses that offer relatively poor employment opportunities. In this article, we examine the development in mismatch among master's graduates in Norway for the period 1995-2015, to see whether this…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Education Work Relationship, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
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William E. Donald; Maria Mouratidou; Helen Philippa Narelle Hughes; Rebecca Padgett – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: Drawing on sustainable career theory as a framework, our study aims to explore how Asian international students studying in a UK-based University Business School view their employability, career aspirations, and career resources. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 128 participants provided 602 voice-recorded reflective diary insights…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Employment Potential
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García-Aracil, Adela; Monteiro, Sílvia; Almeida, Leandro S. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This study explores the factors that contribute to students' perceptions of their preparedness for transition from university to work, taking a multidimensional perspective on their academic experience. To that end, a questionnaire was designed and administered to students enrolled in the final year of their master's degree programme. Students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, College Graduates, Student Attitudes
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Perez-Encinas, Adriana; Berbegal-Mirabent, Jasmina – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This study investigates the factors that influence how long it takes for master's-level graduate students to find employment. The original contribution stems from questioning whether the structure and content of university programmes play a role in graduates' ability to secure jobs. To this end, we focus on three dimensions at three points in time…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Masters Programs, Employment Potential, College Graduates
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Hao, Yu; Pym, Anthony – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Faced with technological disruption, the employability of translation graduates demands careful analysis. Interpretations of major previous surveys suggest that only about one third of graduates find employment as translators or interpreters, although about half of them tend to find employment using multilingual communication skills in various…
Descriptors: Translation, Masters Programs, Employment Potential, Chinese
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Houldsworth, Elizabeth; Jones, Karen; McBain, Richard; Brewster, Chris – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
It is argued that women are held back in their efforts to achieve career advancement by inequitable opportunities to acquire and leverage career capital. Using career capital theory, this empirically grounded investigation examines how female MBAs report increases in knowing-how, knowing-whom and knowing-why, in relation to their male…
Descriptors: Females, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education
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Lo Presti, Alessandro; Costantini, Arianna; Akkermans, Jos; Sartori, Riccardo; De Rosa, Assunta – Journal of Career Development, 2023
This study adopts a resource perspective to investigate the development of graduates' resource-based employability across a 1-year internship. We examined factors referring to agency (job crafting in the form of crafting challenges and crafting resources) and context (organizational social socialization tactics) as mechanisms contributing to…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Job Development, Internship Programs, Psychology
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Lyons, Kristen; Seini, Monica; West, Catherine Coogan; Rashidi, Pedram; Freeman, Camille; Ryall, Glenn; Chen, Susan; Vu, Ciarra – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2022
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a teaching and learning approach widely adopted across Australian universities. With inclusion across a wide range of programs and courses, WIL is championed as providing authentic and transformative learning environments that may equip graduates for the world of work. Despite a rapid expansion in WIL scholarship,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Work Experience Programs, Career Readiness, Career Development
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SivaKumar, ArunKumar – Review of Education, 2023
In a recent scenario, the Master of Business Administration (MBA) job placement rates have decreased since the pandemic started. MBA job placement rates are down since the pandemic started. What's most alarming: the decline in MBA jobs (34%) has been steeper than the decline in overall jobs (27%), for the period between May 2019 and May 2020. The…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Taxonomy, Teacher Attitudes, Masters Programs
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Dixon, John; Gordon, Neil – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2022
The financial cost to individuals of higher education is now regularly exceeding £50k before maintenance in the UK; consequently, students are more concerned than ever that their degree should offer value for money when they enter the jobs marketplace. Overshadowed by long-term debt, lack of career options and job offerings with low salary,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Employment Potential
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Durham, Sue; Jordan, Helen; Naccarella, Lucio; Russell, Melissa – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2020
It is increasingly understood that work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities are critical in providing graduating students with employability skills which allow them to gain employment and effectively operate in work environments. This is particularly relevant within degrees such as public health that cut across very diverse fields of practice.…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Job Skills, Skill Development, Masters Programs
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Paula Álvarez-González; María J. López-Miguens; Gloria Caballero – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Sustainable employability has emerged as a multifaceted construct that measures individuals' abilities to function in the labour market throughout their working lives. Therefore, it is no longer just about analysing how to achieve a successful transition from school/university to employment, but also about identifying the conditions that…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Sustainability, Employment Potential, Labor Market
Philip D. Heavilin II – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The state of the MBA is under scrutiny as new programs continue to launch, tuition continues to rise, and competition for prospective students among MBA programs continues to increase. Therefore, students are interested to know their ROI on the MBA degree and how institutions will support them to secure employment. Simultaneously, the continued…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Catholic Schools, Religious Colleges, Business Schools
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Trung Tu Nguyen; Manu Sharma – Journal of International Students, 2024
In this paper, we identify the main challenges faced by international graduate students seeking employment in the Canadian labor market after completing Canadian Master of Education programs. We approach this issue from our combined perspectives: a professor of higher education and a recent international graduate with a Master of Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Masters Degrees
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Kyla Ellis-Sloan – Educational Review, 2024
This paper draws attention to how markers of adulthood linked to education and employment form an influential social narrative and argues that these help to construct teenage motherhood as problematic. Social policies, informed by this narrative, reinforce the idea of a "correct" path through education and into employment from which…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Mothers, Social Bias, Social Discrimination
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