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Graduate Employability

The Study

This project builds course team capacity for enhancing graduate employability by:

  1. Using the Course Team Graduate Employability Tool to identify strengths and gaps in a course team’s capacity for enhancing employability by reflecting on GDS data on initial employment of graduates, as well as the triangulation of:
    1. The course team’s perceptions of:
      1. the ‘required mix’ of attributes and employability skills of graduates;
      2. their own self-efficacy in identifying and assessing those attributes and skills and modelling them and engaging students to achieve them by drawing on industry experience and research; and
      3. sectoral and institutional incentives and barriers to university teachers’ greater focus on graduate employability;
    2. Graduates’ perceptions (five years out) of the ‘required mix’ of attributes and skills and the extent to which the course assisted them to achieve them;
    3. Employers’ perceptions of the ‘required mix’ of skills of graduates commencing in the profession and the extent to which graduates demonstrate them;
  2. Supporting the course leaders to engage their teams to:
    1. reflect on the results of the Course Team Graduate Employability Tool and identify and pilot strategies for maintaining strengths and addressing gaps, using resources and reflective questions identified by the Project Team;
    2. participate in benchmarking partnerships with those who lead the same courses in the partner universities; and
    3. disseminate solutions to enhancing graduate employability across each discipline through scholarly articles and conference presentations.
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