Graduates employability: An exploratory Literature Review

Aniss Moumen,Nezha Mejjad,A Moumen,N Mejjad,H Slimani

doi:10.1051/shsconf/202111905010

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Abstract

This paper aims to present an exploratory literature review from the “Education and Training” journal indexed in Scopus, which has published 99 articles about “Graduate Employability” from 2005 to 2021. After cleaning, classifying and reading these articles with NVIVO; As a result, we have found that authors utilize: quantitative, qualitative, mixed and experimental methodology to address problems related to graduate attributes, graduate employability skills and constructs, enhance employability, self-employability perception and employers perceptions. Also, we have identified three famous conceptual frameworks to measure graduate employability: the Graduate Employability Development model [1], the CareerEDGE model [2] and the Career Management Employability model [3].

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Employability has an important impact on the social and economic context
Graduate employability can be defined as the compilation of a series of soft and hard skills and abilities that a graduate can obtain to achieve and meet a desirable job requirement and succeed in his/her career [8]–[12]
4.1 Meta-analysis : From the corpus of "Education and Training" articles concerning "Graduate Employability", we found that the publication in this topic starts from 2005, the first peak was achieved in 2010

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The first definition for employability was the capability of an individual to integrate the job market [4]. In the 1970s, employability became the attractivity of an individual for potential employers, appreciated by the result of functional tests, the ability to work and professional behaviours. With this definition, we distingue two meanings of employability. In the 2000s, the definition of employability will integrate other attributes as mobility and knowledge of the labour market. This definition of employability did not make a difference between individuals after and before graduation. We chose the "Education and Training" journal to elaborate this exploratory literature review

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