Abstract
We explored three resource capitals related to employability (human, personal-social, and organisational) to explain graduate work entry prospects in a developing country setting. Our study sample consisted of 743 final year university students in Ghana and Kenya. Less than half (n = 305) attended an international university in China (females = 37.05%; mean age = 28.89 years, SD = 3.06 years), while 443 attended local universities in Ghana and Kenya (females = 33.12%; mean age = 25.68 years, SD= 2.27 years). Following a serial mediation regression analysis based on 10 000 bootstrap samples at 95% CI, results indicate that organisational capital directly influences graduates’ employability. Human and personal-social capital partially mediates the relationship between organisational capital and graduate employability; increasing employability prospects. The findings suggest that organisational capital, including the prestige of degree- awarding institutions in addition to human capital and personal-social capital, explains graduate employability. We conclude that graduate qualification, institutional affiliation, and the social capital benefit from those affiliations is associated with employability.
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