Graduate competencies and employability: the impact of matching firms’ needs and personal attainments
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Graduate competencies and employability: the impact of matching firms’ needs and personal attainmentsDate
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Teijeiro-Alvarez, M., Rungo, P., & Freire, M. J. (2013). Graduate competencies and employability: The impact of matching firms’ needs and personal attainments. Economics of Education Review, 34, 286–295.doi doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.01.003
Abstract
[Abstract]:Professional competencies are a key factor in gauging how employable a graduate is.
This paper demonstrates that individuals who have best developed the competencies
which firms feel to be most important are more likely to be in a position to obtain a job.
To this end, we have developed an indicator that measures the proximity between the
relative levels of both importance and attainments. Results confirm the feeling among
experts that the most relevant competencies in the labour market are predominantly of
the systemic type, i.e. transferable personal competencies, to the detriment of more
instrumental competencies related to capacities and graduate education. This paper
clearly points to the fact that universities must change their traditional focus and make a
special effort to help their students to develop those competencies that best foster
employability
Keywords
Graduates
Competences
Human capital
Job matching
Competences
Human capital
Job matching
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0272-7757