Full Description
In a world where there are increasing concerns about graduate underemployment and likely career trajectories, it is not surprising that there is a significant body of literature examining graduate careers in post-industrial societies. However, it has become increasingly evident in recent years that there is a stark disconnect between academics who research employment and education, and careers and employability professionals. Graduate Careers in Context brings these two separate groups together for the first time in order to provide a better understanding of graduate careers.
The book addresses the problems surrounding the graduate labour market and its relationship to higher education and public policy. Drawing on varied perspectives, the contributors provide a comprehensive examination of issues such as geography, mobility and employability, before presenting and discussing the benefits of future collaboration between practitioners and academic researchers.
The interdisciplinary focus of this book will make it of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the areas of education, sociology, social policy, business studies and career guidance and coaching. It should also be essential reading for practitioners who wish to consider their role and responsibilities within the changing higher education market.
Contents
Foreword: Paul Redmond
Chapter One: Introduction - Graduate careers in context - setting the scene
Fiona Christie and Ciaran Burke
Part One: Graduate labour market: theoretical debates
Chapter Two: "Investing Your Future": The Role of Capitals in Graduate Employment Pathways
Ciaran Burke and Sarah Hannaford-Simpson
Chapter Three: Whose employability? Fees, Labour Markets and the Unequal Rewards of Undergraduate Study
Andrew Morrison
Chapter Four: Regional Capital and 'Local' Graduate Employment
Teresa Crew
Part Two: Graduate careers and transitions
Chapter Five: Graduate labour market myths
Charlie Ball
Chapter Six: Graduate Gap Years: Narratives of Postponement in Graduate Employment Transitions in England
Katy Vigurs, Steven Jones, Diane Harris and Julia Everitt
Chapter Seven: Geography, mobility and graduate career development
Rosie Alexander
Chapter Eight: Learning to be employable
Jane Artess
Chapter Nine: Life in the graduate graveyards: making sense of underemployment in graduate careers
Tracy Scurry and John Blenkinsopp
Part Three: Professional and Organisational issues relating to employability
Chapter Ten: Organisational Responses to the Employability Agenda in English Universities
Bob Gilworth
Chapter Eleven: A new career in Higher Education careers work
Siobhan Neary, Jill Hanson
Chapter Twelve: Contested Boundaries of Expertise in HE careers and employability services
Nalayini Thambar
Part Four: Careers Professionals Evolving into Researchers
Chapter Thirteen: The rise of the practitioner-researcher. How big data and evidence-based practice requires practitioners with a research mindset
David Winter
Chapter Fourteen: Making connections through practitioner research
Gill Frigerio
Chapter Fifteen: Conclusion - editorial reflections and a call to action
Fiona Christie and Ciaran Burke
