While some graduates have acquired and drawn upon specialised skill-sets, many have undertaken employment pathways that are only tangential to what they have studied. This has tended to challenge some of the traditional ways of understanding graduates and their position in the labour market, not least classical theories of cultural reproduction. This may well confirm emerging perceptions of their own career progression and what they need to do to enhance it. Mason, G. (2002) High skills utilisation under mass higher education: Graduate employment in the service industries in Britain, Journal of Education and Work 14 (4): 427456. Brennan, J., Kogan, M. and Teichler, U. Relatively high levels of personal investment are required to enhance one's employment profile and credentials, and to ensure that a return is made on one's investment in study. This paper analyses the barriers to work faced by long- and short-term unemployed people in remote rural labour markets. Brooks, R. and Everett, G. (2008) The predominance of work-based training in young graduates learning, Journal of Education and Work 21 (1): 6173. Brown, P., Lauder, H. and Ashton, D.N. This insight, combined with a growing consensus that government should try to stabilize employment, has led to much Much of the graduate employability focus has been on supply-side responses towards enhancing graduates' skills for the labour market. Kupfer, A. The concerns that have been well documented within the non-graduate youth labour market (Roberts, 2009) are also clearly resonating with the highly qualified. This research highlighted that some had developed stronger identities and forms of identification with the labour market and specific future pathways. Wolf, A. The strengths of consensus theory are that it is a more objective approach and that it is easier to achieve agreement. For Beck and Beck-Germsheim (2002), processes of institutionalised individualisation mean that the labour market effectively becomes a motor for individualisation, in that responsibility for economic outcomes is transferred away from work organisations and onto individuals. It further draws upon research that has explored the ways in which students and graduates construct their employability and begin to manage the transition from HE to work. Harvey, L. (2000) New realities: The relationship between higher education and employment, Tertiary Education and Management 6 (1): 317. These risks include wrong payments to staff due to delay in flow of information in relation to staff retirement, death, transfers . The new UK coalition government, working within a framework of budgetary constraints, have been less committed to expansion and have begun capping student numbers (HEFCE, 2010). Ideally, graduates would be able to possess both the hard currencies in the form of traditional academic qualifications together with soft currencies in the form of cultural and interpersonal qualities. (1972) Graduates: The Sociology of an Elite, London: Methuen. If initial identities are affirmed during the early stages of graduates working lives, they may well ossify and set the direction for future orientations and outlooks. Furthermore, as Bridgstock (2009) has highlighted, generic skills discourses often fail to engage with more germane understandings of the actual career-salient skills graduates genuinely need to navigate through early career stages. Accordingly, there has been considerable government faith in the role of HE in meeting new economic imperatives. The employability and labour market returns of graduates also appears to have a strong international dimension to it, given that different national economies regulate the relationship between HE and labour market entry differently (Teichler, 2007). This study examines these two theories and makes competing predictions about the role of knowledge workers in moderating the . Keynes' theory of employment is a demand-deficient theory. How employable a graduate is, or perceives themselves to be, is derived largely from their self-perception of themselves as a future employee and the types of work-related dispositions they are developing. Chapter 1 1. Hall, P.A. The inter-relationship between HE and the labour market has been considerably reshaped over time. The study explores differences in the implicit employability theories of those involved in developing employability (educators) and those selecting and recruiting higher education (HE) students and graduates (employers). This was a model developed by Lorraine Dacre Pool and Peter Sewell in 2007 which identifies five essential elements that aid employability: Career Development Learning: the knowledge, skills and experience to help people manage and develop their careers. For other students, careers were far more tangential to their personal goals and lifestyles, and were not something they were prepared to make strong levels of personal and emotional investment towards. In addition, the human development theory and the human capital theory come to the forefront whenever employability is considered. Such changes have inevitably led to questions over HE's role in meeting the needs of both the wider labour market and graduates, concerns that have largely emanated from the corporate world (Morley and Aynsley, 2007; Boden and Nedeva, 2010). X@vFuyfDdf(^vIm%h>IX, OIDq8 - Graduates in different occupations were shown to be drawing upon particular graduate skill-sets, be that occupation-specific expertise, managerial decision-making skills, and interactive, communication-based competences. These concerns have been given renewed focus in the current climate of wider labour market uncertainty. Taylor, J. and Pick, D. (2008) The work orientations of Australian university students, Journal of Education and Work 21 (5): 405421. The different orientations students are developing appear to be derived from emerging identities and self-perceptions as future employees, as well as from wider biographical dimensions of the student. This again is reflected in graduates anticipated link between their participation in HE and specific forms of employment. They see society like a human body, where key institutions work like the body's organs to keep the society/body healthy and well.Social health means the same as social order, and is guaranteed when nearly everyone accepts the general moral values of their society. Graduates clearly follow different employment pathways and embark upon a multifarious range of career routes, all leading to different experiences and outcomes. Perhaps increasingly central to the changing dynamic between HE and the labour market has been the issue of graduate employability. This may be largely due to the fact that employers have been reasonably responsive to generic academic profiles, providing that graduates fulfil various other technical and job-specific demands. Roberts, K. (2009) Opportunity structures then and now, Journal of Education and Work 22 (5): 355368. What this has shown is that graduates see the link between participation in HE and future returns to have been disrupted through mass HE. The New Right argument is that a range of government policies, most notably those associated with the welfare state, undermined the key institutions that create the value consensus and ensure social solidarity. Ball, S.J. Book The key to accessing desired forms of employment is achieving a positional advantage over other graduates with similar academic and class-cultural profiles. Article This tends to be mediated by a range of contextual variables in the labour market, not least graduates relations with significant others in the field and the specific dynamics inhered in different forms of employment. Report to HEFCE by the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information. Value consensus assumes that the norms and values of society are generally agreed and that social life is based on co-operation rather than conflict. Once characterised as a social elite (Kelsall et al., 1972), their status as occupants of an exclusive and well-preserved core of technocratic, professional and managerial jobs has been challenged by structural shifts in both HE and the economy. Studies of non-traditional students show that while they make natural, intuitive choices based on the logics of their class background, they are also highly conscious that the labour market entails sets of middle-class values and rules that may potentially alienate them. Slider with three articles shown per slide. Employability is a product consisting of a specific set of skills, such as soft, hard, technical, and transferable. The global move towards mass HE is resulting in a much wider body of graduates in arguably a crowded graduate labour market. Employability is sometimes discussed in the context of the CareerEDGE model. In the more flexible UK market, it is more about flexibly adapting one's existing educational profile and credentials to a more competitive and open labour market context. Elias and Purcell's (2004) research has reported positive overall labour market outcomes in graduates early career trajectories 7 years on from graduation: in the main graduates manage to secure paid employment and enjoy comparatively higher earning than non-graduates. Consensus Theory. Employability is a promise to employees that they will hold the accomplishments to happen new occupations rapidly if their occupations end out of the blue ( Baruch, 2001 ) . Reviews for a period of 20 years between 1994 and 2013 have been assimilated and categorized into two propositions. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate the slides or the slide controller buttons at the end to navigate through each slide. Yet research has raised questions over employers overall effectiveness in marshalling graduates skills in the labour market (Brown and Hesketh, 2004; Morley and Aynsley, 2007). Brooks, R. and Everett, G. (2009) Post-graduate reflections on the value of a degree, British Educational Research Journal 35 (3): 333349. Research done over the past decade has highlighted the increasing pressures anticipated and experienced by graduates seeking well-paid and graduate-level forms of employment. Skills formally taught and acquired during university do not necessarily translate into skills utilised in graduate employment. 2003) and attempts to seek integrate them by formulating a model of explanatory form together with the existing empirical literature. What this research has shown is that graduates anticipate the labour market to engender high risks and uncertainties (Moreau and Leathwood, 2006; Tomlinson, 2007) and are managing their expectations accordingly. Green, F. and Zhu, Y. The prominence is on developing critical and reflective skills, with a view to empowering and enhancing the learner. 'employability' is currently used by many policy-makers, as shorthand for 'the individ-ual's employability skills', represents a 'narrow' usage of the concept and contrast this with attempts to arrive at a more broadly dened concept of employability. (2000) Recruiting a graduate elite? Graduate employability is a multifaceted concept considering the Sustainable Development Goals. Based on society's agreement - or consensus - on our shared norms and values, individuals are happy to stick to the rules for the sake of the greater good.Ultimately, this helps us achieve social order and stability. Perhaps one consensus uniting discussion on the effects of labour market change is that the new knowledge-based economy entails significant challenges for individuals, including those who are well educated. The review has also highlighted the contested terrain around which debates on graduates employability and its development take place. Graduate employability is clearly a problem that goes far wider than formal participation in HE, and is heavily bound up in the coordination, regulation and management of graduate employment through the course of graduate working lives. Again, graduates respond to the challenges of increasing flexibility, individualisation and positional competition in different ways. Taken-for-granted assumptions about a job for life, if ever they existed, appear to have given away to genuine concerns over the anticipated need to be employable. The final aim is to logically distinguish . The problem of graduates employability remains a continuing policy priority for higher education (HE) policymakers in many advanced western economies. HE systems across the globe are evolving in conjunction with wider structural transformations in advanced, post-industrial capitalism (Brown and Lauder, 2009). Dominant discourses on graduates employability have tended to centre on the economic role of graduates and the capacity of HE to equip them for the labour market. Maria Eliophotou Menon, Eleftheria Argyropoulou & Andreas Stylianou, Ly Thi Tran, Nga Thi Hang Ngo, Tien Thi Hanh Ho, David Walters, David Zarifa & Brittany Etmanski, Jason L. Brown, Sara J. Less positively, their research exposed gender disparities gap in both pay and the types of occupations graduates work within. The consensus theory is based o n the propositions that technological innovation is the driving force of so cial change. Strathdee, R. (2011) Educational reform, inequality and the structure of higher education in New Zealand, Journal of Education and Work 24 (1): 2749. This is further reflected in pay difference and breadth of career opportunities open to different genders. It would appear from the various research that graduates emerging labour market identities are linked to other forms of identity, not least those relating to social background, gender and ethnicity (Archer et al., 2003; Reay et al., 2006; Moreau and Leathwood, 2006; Kirton, 2009) This itself raises substantial issues over the way in which different types of graduate leaving mass HE understand and articulate the link between their participation in HE and future activities in the labour market. The relationship between HE and the labour market has traditionally been a closely corresponding one, although in sometimes loose and intangible ways (Brennan et al., 1996; Johnston, 2003). . The New Right argues that liberal left politicians and welfare policies have undermined the . This will largely shape how graduates perceive the linkage between their higher educational qualification and their future returns. In the context of a knowledge economy, consensus theory advocates that knowledge, skills and innovation are the driving factors of our society. Consequently, they will have to embark upon increasingly uncertain employment futures, continually having to respond to the changing demands of internal and external labour markets. This has some significant implications for the ways in which they understand their employability and the types of credentials and forms of capital around which this is built. Graduates are therefore increasingly likely to see responsibility for future employability as falling quite sharply onto the shoulders of the individual graduate: being a graduate and possessing graduate-level credentials no longer warrants access to sought-after employment, if only because so many other graduates share similar educational and pre-work profiles. (2007) Does higher education matter? Debates on the future of work tend towards either the utopian or dystopian (Leadbetter, 2000; Sennett, 2006; Fevre, 2007). 6 0 obj As such, these identities and dispositions are likely to shape graduates action frames, including their decisions to embark upon various career routes. Strangleman, T. (2007) The nostalgia for the permanence of work? This review has shown that the problem of graduate employability maps strongly onto the shifting dynamic in the relationship between HE and the labour market. For some graduates, HE continues to be a clear route towards traditional middle-class employment and lifestyle; yet for others it may amount to little more than an opportunity cost. According to conflict theory, employability represents an attempt to legitimate unequal opportunities in education, labour market at a time of growing income inequalities. The theory of employability can be difficult to identify; there can be many factors that contribute to the idea of being employable. Research has tended to reveal a mixed picture on graduates and their position in the labour market (Brown and Hesketh, 2004; Elias and Purcell, 2004; Green and Zhu, 2010). Their findings relate to earlier work on Careership (Hodkinson and Sparkes, 1997), itself influenced by Bourdieu's (1977) theories of capital and habitus. It appears that students and graduates reflect upon their relationship with the labour market and what they might need to achieve their goals. Universities have experienced heightened pressures to respond to an increasing range of internal and external market demands, reframing the perceived value of their activities and practices. Department for Education (DFE). Department for Education Skills (DFES). Conflict theory in sociology. Employability. Leadbetter, C. (2000) Living on Thin Air, London: Penguin. They are (i) Business graduates require specific employability skills; (2) Curricular changes enhance . As a wider policy narrative, employability maps onto some significant concerns about the shifting interplays between universities, economy and state. The end of work and its commentators, The Sociological Review 55 (1): 81103. Graduate Employability has come to mean many different things. (eds.) The purpose of this study is to explain the growth and popularity of consensus theory in present day sociology. If the occupational structure does not become sufficiently upgraded to accommodate the continued supply of graduates, then mismatches between graduates level of education and the demands of their jobs may ensue. Power, S. and Whitty, G. (2006) Graduating and Graduations Within the Middle Class: The Legacy of an Elite Higher Education, Cardiff: Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences. However, there are concerns that the shift towards mass HE and, more recently, more whole-scale market-driven reforms may be intensifying class-cultural divisions in both access to specific forms of HE experience and subsequent economic outcomes in the labour market (Reay et al., 2006; Strathdee, 2011). Further research from the UK authorities stated that: "Our higher instruction system is a great plus, both for persons and the state. Consensus Vs. In a similar vein, Greenbank (2007) also reported concerns among working-class graduates of perceived deficiencies in the cultural and social capital needed to access specific types of jobs. It draws upon various studies to highlight the different labour market perceptions, experiences and outcomes of graduates in the United Kingdom and other national contexts. Moreover, individual graduates may need to reflexively align themselves to the new challenges of labour market, from which they can make appropriate decisions around their future career development and their general life courses. Consensus theory is a social theory that holds a particular political or economic system as a fair system, and that social change should take place within the social institutions provided by it .Consensus theory contrasts sharply with conflict theory, which holds that social change is only achieved through conflict.. Under consensus theory the absence of conflict is seen as the equilibrium . In flexible labour markets, such as the United Kingdom this remains high. As Little and Archer (2010) argue, the relative looseness in the relationship between HE and the labour market has traditionally not presented problems for either graduates or employers, particularly in more flexible economies such as the United Kingdom. The role of employers and employer organisations in facilitating this, as well as graduates learning and professional development, may therefore be paramount. The theory rests on the assumption that Conservative governments in this time period made an accommodation with the social democratic policy . Summary. Such changes have coincided with what has typically been seen as a shift towards a more flexible, post-industrialised knowledge-driven economy that places increasing demands on the workforce and necessitates new forms of work-related skills (Hassard et al., 2008). Graduates appear to be valued on a range of broad skills, dispositions and performance-based activities that can be culturally mediated, both in the recruitment process and through the specific contexts of their early working lives. Moreau and Leathwood reported strong tendencies for graduates to attribute their labour market outcomes and success towards personal attributes and qualities as much as the structure of available opportunities. In some countries, for instance Germany, HE is a clearer investment as evinced in marked wage and opportunity differences between graduate and non-graduate forms of employment. In sociological debates, consensus theory has been seen as in opposition to conflict theory. volume25,pages 407431 (2012)Cite this article. (2006) showed that students choices towards studying at particular HEIs are likely to reflect subsequent choices. At one level, there has been an optimistic vision of the economy as being fluid and knowledge-intensive (Leadbetter, 2000), readily absorbing the skills and intellectual capital that graduates possess. They nevertheless remain committed to HE as a key economic driver, although with a new emphasis on further rationalising the system through cutting-back university services, stricter prioritisation of funding allocation and higher levels of student financial contribution towards HE through the lifting of the threshold of university fee contribution (DFE, 2010). Graduate employment rate is often used to assess the quality of university provision, despite that employability and employment are two different concepts. explains that employability influences three theories: Talcott Parson's Consensus Theory that is linked to norms and shared beliefs of the society; Conflict theory of Karl Marx, who elaborated how the finite resources of the world drive towards eternal conflict; and Human Capital Theory of Becker which is (2010) Education and the employability of graduates: Will Bologna make a difference? European Educational Research Journal 9 (1): 3244. While they were aware of potential structural barriers relating to the potentially classed and gendered nature of labour markets, many of these young people saw the need to take proactive measures to negotiate theses challenges. Cranmer, S. (2006) Enhancing graduate employability: Best intentions and mixed outcome, Studies in Higher Education 31 (2): 169184. These changes have added increasing complexities to graduates transition into the labour market, as well as the traditional link between graduation and subsequent labour market reward. [PDF] Graduate Employability Skills: Differences between the Private and 02 May 2015 Education is vital in the knowledge economy as the commodity of . PubMedGoogle Scholar, Tomlinson, M. Graduate Employability: A Review of Conceptual and Empirical Themes. The consensus theory of employment and the conflict theory of employment present contradictory implications about highly skilled workers' opportunity cost for pursuing entrepreneurial activities in the knowledge economy. Scott, P. (2005) Universities and the knowledge economy, Minerva 43 (3): 297309. Further research has also pointed to experiences of graduate underemployment (Mason, 2002; Chevalier and Lindley, 2009).This research has revealed that a growing proportion of graduates are undertaking forms of employment that are not commensurate to their level of education and skills. Moreau, M.P. Mass HE may therefore be perpetuating the types of structural inequalities it was intended to alleviate. consensus and industrial peace. The differentiated and heterogeneous labour market that graduates enter means that there is likely to be little uniformity in the way students constructs employability, notionally and personally. The consensus theory of employability states that enhancing graduates' employability and advancing their careers requires improving their human capital, specically their skill development (Selvadurai et al.2012). With increased individual expenditure, HE has literally become an investment and, as such, students may look to it for raising their absolute level of employability. The simultaneous decoupling and tightening in the HElabour market relationship therefore appears to have affected the regulation of graduates into specific labour market positions and their transitions more generally. Employability also encompasses significant equity issues. Research in the field also points to increasing awareness among graduates around the challenges of future employability. The expansion of HE and changing economic demands is seen to engender new forms of social conflict and class-related tensions in the pursuit for rewarding and well-paid employment. Hodkinson, P. and Sparkes, A.C. (1997) Careership: A sociological theory of career decision-making, British Journal of Sociology of Education 18 (1): 2944. These changes have had a number of effects. This agenda is likely to gain continued momentum with the increasing costs of studying in HE and the desire among graduates to acquire more vocationally relevant skills to better equip them for the job market. Research done by Brooks and Everett (2008) and Little (2008) indicates that while HE-level study may be perceived by graduates as equipping them for continued learning and providing them with the dispositions and confidence to undertake further learning opportunities, many still perceive a need for continued professional training and development well beyond graduation. There are many different lists of cardinal accomplishments . This means that Keynes visualized employment/unemployment from the demand side of the model. Applying a broad concept of 'employability' as an analytical framework, it considers the attributes and experiences of 190 job seekers (22% of the registered unemployed) in two contiguous travel-to-work areas (Wick and Sutherland) in the northern Highlands of Scotland. A number of tensions and potential contradictions may arise from this, resulting mainly from competing agendas and interpretations over the ultimate purpose of a university education and how its provision should best be arranged. Brennan, J. and Tang, W. (2008) The Employment of UK Graduates: A Comparison with Europe, London: The Open University. Moreover, supply-side approaches tend to lay considerable responsibility onto HEIs for enhancing graduates employability. In such labour market contexts, HE regulates more clearly graduates access to particular occupations. The paper then explores research on graduates labour market returns and outcomes, and the way they are positioned in the labour market, again highlighting the national variability to graduates labour market outcomes. Players are adept at responding to such competition, embarking upon strategies that will enable them to acquire and present the types of employability narratives that employers demand. VuE*ce!\S&|3>}x`nbC_Y*o0HIS?vV7?& wociJZWM_ dBu\;QoU{=A*U[1?!q+ 5I3O)j`u_S ^bA0({{9O?-#$ 3? An example of this is the family. Barrie, S. (2006) Understanding what we mean by generic attributes of graduates, Higher Education 51 (2): 215241. On the other hand, less optimistic perspectives tend to portray contemporary employment as being both more intensive and precarious (Sennett, 2006). (2008) Graduate development in European employment: Issues and contradictions, Education and Training 50 (5): 379390. 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