Education + Training: Volume 64 Issue 5

Stories of employability: improving interview narratives with image-supported past-behaviour storytelling training

Serene Lin-Stephens, Maurizio Manuguerra, Pei-Jung Tsai, James A. Athanasou

Stories of employability are told in employment and educational settings, notably the selection interviews. A popular training approach guiding higher education students to…

Supporting students' employability through structured, event-based engagement with employers

Claire M. Mason, Shanae M. Burns, Elinor A. Bester

The authors proposed that participation in large-scale, structured events designed to match students to employers' internship opportunities could support students' employability…

What drives labour market success? Empirical analysis of university graduates in Poland

Paulina Hojda, Sylwia Roszkowska, Mariusz Trojak

The study aims to examine the factors that determine the success of graduates in the labour market. This success is measured in several ways, namely, above-average wages in the…

Enhancing the effects of creativity training for business school students through art-based methods and blended learning

Tsung-Hsien Kuo, Han-Kuang Tien

The content of training (art-based method) and instructional strategies (blended learning) can improve business school students' creativity and attempts to determine how training…

The expectations of employability skills in the Fourth Industrial Revolution of the communication and media industry in Malaysia

Siti Nor Amalina Ahmad Tajuddin, Khairul Azam Bahari, Fatima M. Al Majdhoub, Shanthi Balraj Baboo, Harlina Samson

The purpose of this paper is to examine the industry's expectations on the key employability skills of fresh graduates in the communication and media industry. The Fourth…

Determining factors in graduate recruitment and preparing students for success

Denise Jackson, Linda Riebe, Flavio Macau

This study aims to investigate graduate employer perceptions of determining factors in recruitment decisions and their preferred use of recruitment channels. This study drew on…

Being a college student leader boosts career prospects: a panel survey in China

Sheng Cui, Qiuxiang Wu, Burcu Erdemir

The authors explored the effect of college student leader experience on students' employment prospects, such as their starting salary. The authors also examined the factors behind…

Non-technical skills and students' overconfidence in accounting

Jose Luis Arquero, Carmen Fernandez-Polvillo, Trevor Hassall

Despite the institutional calls to include the development of non-technical skills as objectives in accounting curriculum and the attempts to do so, a gap between the level of…