Increasingly universities are stating that the educational experience they provide embeds within students graduate attributes (skills, knowledge and behaviours) unique to their educational experience on completion of their studies; but what evidence is there that employers understand and value any specific graduate attributes when employing graduates? If they do value graduate attributes, what do they value and why? is there any difference between how any university articulates graduate attributes and employers articulate the same thing - is common language in use? Do graduate attributes from different universities have any bearing on employer attitudes to selection of graduates? Leading a research project investigating this issue and would welcome views and pointers to publications investigating the views of employers on graduate attributes from as many different disciplines and countries as possible (especially international employers) given the limited information I have so far been able to actually access in order to triangulate with our team's work.
Edward:
We do ask our employers to assess our interns when we place them in industry. Where any shortcomings are identified, we try to work on these with students before they actually graduate to make them more work-ready. I have also looked on RG and found the relevant research studies in this regard:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicliterature.PublicLiterature.search.html?type=keyword&search-keyword=Employer+assessment+of+Univeristy+graduates&search-abstract=&search=Search
Best regards,
Debra
Edward:
We do ask our employers to assess our interns when we place them in industry. Where any shortcomings are identified, we try to work on these with students before they actually graduate to make them more work-ready. I have also looked on RG and found the relevant research studies in this regard:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicliterature.PublicLiterature.search.html?type=keyword&search-keyword=Employer+assessment+of+Univeristy+graduates&search-abstract=&search=Search
Best regards,
Debra
Attribute and achievements have only a general value for employment
https://www.google.co.in/url?q=http://www.employability.ed.ac.uk/documents/Staff/HEA-Employability_in_HE(Is,IsNot).pdf&sa=U&ved=0CBwQFjAIODxqFQoTCIj_yvSY48cCFcxyjgodvPQLcw&usg=AFQjCNEUy1579IV2N4pJyri47PFxSh5wJg
Hi
A critical Pedagogy Approach could be appropriate for your study I reckon.
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