Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. If graduates from STEMM–science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical sciences–are to successfully navigate the labour market, they need diverse capabilities alongside self- and career awareness. The focus of this st...
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If graduates from STEMM–science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical sciences–are to successfully navigate the labour market, they need diverse capabilities alongside self- and career awareness. The focus of this study was STEMM students’ perceptions of self, career and employability. The study asked over 2,000 commencing students to respond to an open question which asked how long they intended to work in their discipline. The findings lend weight to the use of social cognitive career theory, which emphasises that career- and study-related decision making are influenced by feedback and feed-forward mechanisms and by intra- and inter-personal, historical, and contemporaneous dimensions. The article ends with implications for higher education teachers, including the need for strategies with which to help a diverse student body create meaning from the career-related messages that abound in public discourse. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-814552021-01-06T06:09:09Z Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students Bennett, Dawn Knight, E. Bell, K. Social Sciences Education & Educational Research Graduate employability career development metacognition teaching and learning higher education first year in higher education Deleuze first year students HIGHER-EDUCATION FUTURE SELF WORK LIFE TRANSITION MANAGEMENT BUSINESS ABILITY STRESS © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. If graduates from STEMM–science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical sciences–are to successfully navigate the labour market, they need diverse capabilities alongside self- and career awareness. The focus of this study was STEMM students’ perceptions of self, career and employability. The study asked over 2,000 commencing students to respond to an open question which asked how long they intended to work in their discipline. The findings lend weight to the use of social cognitive career theory, which emphasises that career- and study-related decision making are influenced by feedback and feed-forward mechanisms and by intra- and inter-personal, historical, and contemporaneous dimensions. The article ends with implications for higher education teachers, including the need for strategies with which to help a diverse student body create meaning from the career-related messages that abound in public discourse. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81455 10.1080/13562517.2020.1759529 English ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD restricted |
| spellingShingle | Social Sciences Education & Educational Research Graduate employability career development metacognition teaching and learning higher education first year in higher education Deleuze first year students HIGHER-EDUCATION FUTURE SELF WORK LIFE TRANSITION MANAGEMENT BUSINESS ABILITY STRESS Bennett, Dawn Knight, E. Bell, K. Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students |
| title | Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students |
| title_full | Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students |
| title_fullStr | Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students |
| title_short | Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students |
| title_sort | graduate employability and the career thinking of university stemm students |
| topic | Social Sciences Education & Educational Research Graduate employability career development metacognition teaching and learning higher education first year in higher education Deleuze first year students HIGHER-EDUCATION FUTURE SELF WORK LIFE TRANSITION MANAGEMENT BUSINESS ABILITY STRESS |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81455 |