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Niska, Miira – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
As governments and international organisations have pressured universities to demonstrate the value and effectiveness of tertiary education, universities have started to highlight graduate employability as a key driver and measure of university outcomes. This paper contributes to the underutilised "processual" employability studies by…
Descriptors: College Students, Employment Potential, Psychological Patterns, Foreign Countries
Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka; Siivonen, Päivi; Haltia, Nina – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
A growing number of scholars have investigated how extracurricular activities (ECA) are intimately tied to graduates' positional competition and enhancement of employability. Prior studies have shown that the strategic tendency towards ECA especially applies to privileged, high-achieving students from a high-status university. Yet studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Business Education, Extracurricular Activities
Julia A. Nuckols; Anu Sirola; Minna Ylilahti; Terhi-Anna Wilska – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the daily continuity of young people by causing financial insecurity, remote work/studies, loss of work, loneliness, stress, and unpredictability of the future. This study explores the experiences of pandemic-time graduates from Finland and Sweden in the transition from higher education to work. Finland and Sweden…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Graduates
Tuononen, Tarja; Hyytinen, Heidi – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
The transition from university to working life is a challenging phase for graduates. The focus in the present longitudinal study is on employability factors and their association with this transition and with early career success. The participants were 43 graduates who were interviewed at the time of their graduation and filled in a follow-up…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, College Graduates, Entry Workers, Education Work Relationship
Haapakorpi, Arja – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
Post-industrial society has witnessed trends according to which the labour market has become more flexible, services have expanded and immaterial work and horizontal work organisation has emerged, shaping professions in respect to the employment and work they can offer. An outcome of these trends is a portfolio career, an employment pattern based…
Descriptors: Careers, Self Employment, Employment Level, Industry
Pesonen, Henri V.; Tuononen, Tarja; Fabri, Marc; Lahdelma, Minja – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
An unprecedented number of autistic people are completing university and they frequently face unemployment after graduation. However, research focusing on the forms of graduate capital and their employability is scarce. The focus of existing research has been on non-autistic, or neurotypical, graduates. The human, social, cultural, identity and…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, College Graduates, Employment Potential, Human Capital
Ojala, Kristiina; Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka; Varhelahti, Mervi – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Graduate employability research typically focuses on young graduates' entry to the labour market. Little is known about the careers of adults who attain higher education degrees in mid-life. This article explores Finnish University of Applied Sciences (UAS) Master's degree graduates' mid-career trajectories using retrospectively collected…
Descriptors: Adults, Nontraditional Students, College Graduates, Employment Potential
Chwialkowska, Agnieszka – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
Despite excellent education and a rich working experience in their home countries, skilled expatriates struggle to find employment that matches their qualifications. This article goes beyond the dominant stress and emotions' perspective on underemployment and presents the challenges of skilled migrant labour through the lens of the Common In-group…
Descriptors: Underemployment, Skilled Workers, Foreign Workers, Adjustment (to Environment)
Nisula, Anna-Maija; Metso, Sari – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
The present paper proposes a conceptual model in which both personal and perceived workplace-related factors affect vocational students' workplace learning success in real workplace environments, with workplace learning success constituted by students' professional learning and satisfaction. We empirically tested the proposed model in two survey…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Workplace Learning, Work Environment, Student Satisfaction
Veltman, M. E.; Van Keulen, J.; Voogt, J. M. – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
To an increasing extent, society requires professionals to cross boundaries in order to deal with wicked problems. However, little is known about how interventions in higher professional education (HPE) foster learning through boundary crossing in the context of addressing wicked problems. Drawing upon the three-dimension model of wickedness by…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Higher Education, Problem Solving, Interdisciplinary Approach