Capturing stakeholder perceptions of graduate capability development: Challenges associated with Graduate Employability Indicators

This paper reports on the use of the Graduate Employability Indicators, a suite of three online surveys for graduates, employers and members of the course teaching team, developed through the ALTC Project Building Course Team Capacity for Graduate Employability. The surveys were administered to grad...

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Main Authors: Whelan, Barbara, Oliver, Beverley, Hunt, L., Hammer, S., Jones, S., Pearce, A.
Other Authors: Matthew Campbell (matthew.campbell@acu.edu.au)
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Australian Collaborative Educational Network 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27659
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author Whelan, Barbara
Oliver, Beverley
Hunt, L.
Hammer, S.
Jones, S.
Pearce, A.
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description This paper reports on the use of the Graduate Employability Indicators, a suite of three online surveys for graduates, employers and members of the course teaching team, developed through the ALTC Project Building Course Team Capacity for Graduate Employability. The surveys were administered to graduates, employers and faculty staff for accounting and public relations/communications courses at four Australian universities in early 2010. Strategies used to identify and engage employers are discussed along with the impact that these strategies had on the total responses. Factors the ALTC Project Team found important were identifying and collating employer contacts, sending out reminder emails and establishing personal contact with stakeholders wherever possible. The paper also presents the lessons learnt through this survey process that may apply to activities undertaken by other researchers.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-276592017-01-30T13:00:28Z Capturing stakeholder perceptions of graduate capability development: Challenges associated with Graduate Employability Indicators Whelan, Barbara Oliver, Beverley Hunt, L. Hammer, S. Jones, S. Pearce, A. Matthew Campbell (matthew.campbell@acu.edu.au) feedback graduate employer employability attributes academic This paper reports on the use of the Graduate Employability Indicators, a suite of three online surveys for graduates, employers and members of the course teaching team, developed through the ALTC Project Building Course Team Capacity for Graduate Employability. The surveys were administered to graduates, employers and faculty staff for accounting and public relations/communications courses at four Australian universities in early 2010. Strategies used to identify and engage employers are discussed along with the impact that these strategies had on the total responses. Factors the ALTC Project Team found important were identifying and collating employer contacts, sending out reminder emails and establishing personal contact with stakeholders wherever possible. The paper also presents the lessons learnt through this survey process that may apply to activities undertaken by other researchers. 2010 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27659 Australian Collaborative Educational Network fulltext
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Capturing stakeholder perceptions of graduate capability development: Challenges associated with Graduate Employability Indicators
title Capturing stakeholder perceptions of graduate capability development: Challenges associated with Graduate Employability Indicators
title_full Capturing stakeholder perceptions of graduate capability development: Challenges associated with Graduate Employability Indicators
title_fullStr Capturing stakeholder perceptions of graduate capability development: Challenges associated with Graduate Employability Indicators
title_full_unstemmed Capturing stakeholder perceptions of graduate capability development: Challenges associated with Graduate Employability Indicators
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