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Business Graduate Employability – Where Are We Going Wrong?, Denise Jackson
Business Graduate Employability – Where Are We Going Wrong?, Denise Jackson
Research outputs 2013
Persistent gaps in certain non-technical skills in business graduates continue to impact on organisational performance and global competitiveness. Despite business school’s best efforts in developing non-technical skills, widely acknowledged as fundamental to graduate employability, there has been considerably less attention to measuring skill outcomes and even less on their subsequent transfer to the workplace. It appears stakeholders are assuming transfer occurs automatically in graduates, neglecting the influence of learning program, learner and workplace characteristics on this complex process and its potential impact on graduate employability.
This paper unpacks the concept of transfer and proposes a model of graduate employability which …