TY - CHAP
T1 - Employability and determinants of employment outcomes
AU - Pham, Thanh
AU - Jackson, Denise
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This chapter presents key themes emerging in the preceding narratives presented in the book and also in other narratives presented at the Alumni Experience Conference in 2018. The narratives revealed that graduates’ employability development is a complex process which was constructed by a range of factors at macro-, meso-, and micro-levels. At a macro-level, the graduates’ employability trajectories were determined by government policies like scholarship and exchange programmes and permanent residency (PR) policies. At a meso-level, their career choices and progression are influenced by prospects and expectations of parents, institutions, and employers. At a micro-level, graduates’ employability negotiation was found to largely depend on various forms of capital including human capital, social capital, cultural capital, psychological capital, and identity capital. Importantly, to navigate the labour markets, graduates needed to develop what is called ‘agentic capital’ – a capacity to use their capitals strategically.
AB - This chapter presents key themes emerging in the preceding narratives presented in the book and also in other narratives presented at the Alumni Experience Conference in 2018. The narratives revealed that graduates’ employability development is a complex process which was constructed by a range of factors at macro-, meso-, and micro-levels. At a macro-level, the graduates’ employability trajectories were determined by government policies like scholarship and exchange programmes and permanent residency (PR) policies. At a meso-level, their career choices and progression are influenced by prospects and expectations of parents, institutions, and employers. At a micro-level, graduates’ employability negotiation was found to largely depend on various forms of capital including human capital, social capital, cultural capital, psychological capital, and identity capital. Importantly, to navigate the labour markets, graduates needed to develop what is called ‘agentic capital’ – a capacity to use their capitals strategically.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088883838&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003004660-17
DO - 10.4324/9781003004660-17
M3 - Chapter (Book)
AN - SCOPUS:85088883838
SN - 9780367436285
T3 - Routledge Research in Higher Education
SP - 237
EP - 255
BT - Developing and Utilizing Employability Capitals
A2 - Nghia, Tran Le Huu
A2 - Pham, Thanh
A2 - Tomlinson, Michael
A2 - Medica, Karen
A2 - Thompson, Christopher D.
PB - Routledge
CY - Abingdon UK
ER -