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Boundaryless and protean career orientation: A multitude of pathways to graduate employability

Boundaryless and protean career orientation: A multitude of pathways to graduate employability
Boundaryless and protean career orientation: A multitude of pathways to graduate employability
The neo-liberalisation of UK Higher Education (HE) seeks to establish an intellectual capital base (Giroux 2014). Discourse focuses heavily on the economic role of graduates and increased participation in HE (Tomlinson 2012). The political, economic and national ambitions and considerations as perceived from a macro-level Government mentality viewpoint are well documented (Holmes 2013; Baruch and Leeming 2001). In line with a paucity of existing literature in this area, it is less clear how the micro-level target population, the students; perceive their career orientation towards and following their graduation. We discuss these themes with the purpose of exploring the undergraduate student perception of graduate employability.
129-150
Palgrave Macmillan
Donald, William
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Baruch, Yehuda
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Ashleigh, Melanie
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Tomlinson, Michael
Holmes, Leonard
Donald, William
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Baruch, Yehuda
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Ashleigh, Melanie
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Tomlinson, Michael
Holmes, Leonard

Donald, William, Baruch, Yehuda and Ashleigh, Melanie (2016) Boundaryless and protean career orientation: A multitude of pathways to graduate employability. In, Tomlinson, Michael and Holmes, Leonard (eds.) Graduate Employability in Context: Theory, Research and Debate. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 129-150. (doi:10.1057/978-1-137-57168-7_6).

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The neo-liberalisation of UK Higher Education (HE) seeks to establish an intellectual capital base (Giroux 2014). Discourse focuses heavily on the economic role of graduates and increased participation in HE (Tomlinson 2012). The political, economic and national ambitions and considerations as perceived from a macro-level Government mentality viewpoint are well documented (Holmes 2013; Baruch and Leeming 2001). In line with a paucity of existing literature in this area, it is less clear how the micro-level target population, the students; perceive their career orientation towards and following their graduation. We discuss these themes with the purpose of exploring the undergraduate student perception of graduate employability.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 31 October 2016
Published date: 10 November 2016

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Local EPrints ID: 483003
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/483003
PURE UUID: a4bc88ea-b216-4947-9be2-ded0e0265349
ORCID for William Donald: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3670-5374
ORCID for Yehuda Baruch: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0678-6273
ORCID for Melanie Ashleigh: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0583-0922

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Author: William Donald ORCID iD
Author: Yehuda Baruch ORCID iD
Editor: Michael Tomlinson
Editor: Leonard Holmes

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