The key to employability

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The key to employability

• A practical model of graduate employability

Lorraine Dacre Pool and Peter Sewell Centre for
Employability University of Central Lancashire
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Introduction

• A number of models of employability have been
  proposed in recent years but are either too
  elaborate to be practically useable or too simple
  to do justice to this multifaceted issue.
• The aim of our research was to develop a
  practical, coherent model of graduate
  employability.

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Employability a definition

• Employability is having a set of skills,
  knowledge, understanding and personal attributes
  that make a person more likely to choose and
  secure occupations in which they can be satisfied
  and successful.
• (Dacre Pool Sewell, 2007)

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The essential components of graduate employability
Dacre Pool Sewell (2007)
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The essential components of graduate employability

• It is suggested that students are provided with
  opportunities to access and develop everything on
  the lower tier of the model (Career development
  learning Experience (work life) Degree
  subject knowledge, understanding and skills
  Generic skills and Emotional intelligence) and
  essentially opportunities to reflect and evaluate
  these experiences, which will result in the
  development of higher levels of self-efficacy,
  self-confidence and self-esteem the crucial
  links to graduate employability.

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CareerEDGE a new model of graduate employability
Dacre Pool Sewell (2007)
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Further information

• A published article with full details of the
  model can be accessed by following the link
  below
• http//www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentI
  tem.do?contentTypeArticlecontentId1610086