Everything about Employability

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: EmployabilityA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Global employability skills in the 21st century workplace: A semi-systematic literature reviewInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: What Diantha DidThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Employability: A psycho-social construct, its dimensions, and applicationsCited 1,583 times
5. Go sideways: SkillA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Work-integrated learningA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Employability: A psycho-social construct, its dimensions, and applications

  Mel Fugate, Angelo J Kinicki, Blake E Ashforth · 2004 · Journal of Vocational Behavior · 1,583 citations

• The graduate attributes we’ve overlooked: enhancing graduate employability through career management skills

  Ruth Bridgstock · 2009 · Higher Education Research & Development · 845 citations

• The Concept of Employability

  Ronald W. McQuaid, Colin Lindsay · 2005 · Urban Studies · 800 citations

• A competence‐based and multidimensional operationalization and measurement of employability

  Claudia M. Van Der Heijde, Beatrice I. J. M. Van Der Heijden · 2006 · Human Resource Management · 799 citations

• Rethinking graduate employability: the role of capital, individual attributes and context

  Marilyn Clarke · 2017 · Studies in Higher Education · 729 citations

• Graduate Employability, ‘Soft Skills’ Versus ‘Hard’ Business Knowledge: A European Study

  Jane Andrews, Helen Higson · 2008 · Higher Education in Europe · 707 citations

• The key to employability: developing a practical model of graduate employability

  Lorraine Dacre Pool, Peter Sewell · 2007 · Education + Training · 688 citations

• Self‐perceived employability: development and validation of a scale

  Andrew Rothwell, John Arnold · 2007 · Personnel Review · 684 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Global employability skills in the 21st century workplace: A semi-systematic literature review

  Hasanuzzaman Tushar, Nanta Sooraksa · 2023 · Heliyon · 158 citations

• The contribution of different types of work-integrated learning to graduate employability

  Denise Jackson, Bonnie Amelia Dean · 2022 · Higher Education Research & Development · 114 citations

• Construction and operationalisation of an Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM) via a systematic literature review (2016–2022)

  William E. Donald, Yehuda Baruch, Melanie J. Ashleigh · 2023 · Studies in Higher Education · 106 citations

• Analysing the impact of sustainable human resource management practices and industry 4.0 technologies adoption on employability skills

  Manu Sharma, Sunil Luthra, Sudhanshu Joshi · 2022 · International Journal of Manpower · 105 citations

• Employability: a core role of higher education?

  Malcolm Tight · 2023 · Research in Post-Compulsory Education · 85 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• What Diantha DidCharlotte Rich, Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1910
• The Alchemist, 1612Ben Jonson, Elizabeth Cook · 1612
• The mis-education of the NegroCarter Godwin Woodson, George G.M. James · 1933
• Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880W. E. B. Du Bois, Eric Foner · 1935
• The 4-Hour WorkweekTimothy Ferriss · 2006
• The Directory of Summer Jobs AbroadDavid Woodworth · 1994
• The one minute managerKenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson · 1981
• The Job Hunting HandbookHarry Dahlstrom · 1983

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