Overview
- Offers evidence-based guidelines for the revision of vocational and higher education programs to ensure the employability of their graduates
- Presents cross-regional research findings that can influence government labour market strategies and policies
- Highlights the most appropriate approaches to the employability challenges for all stakeholders
Part of the book series: Work, Organization, and Employment (WOAE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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The Issues and the Challenges
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Country Studies
Keywords
- graduate employability
- graduate work-readiness
- educational institutions
- educational systems
- labour market
- fourth industrial revolution
- 4IR
- human resource planning
- stakeholder theory
- education planning
- training policy
- labour market transition
- personality resources
- intellectual resources
- meta-skill resources
- job-specific sources
About this book
Readers will acquire comprehensive information on the nature and extent of graduate employability in terms of country-specific challenges, together with a deeper understanding of their complex causes, and the inter-relatedness between governments, educational systems, industry sectors, and potential employers. They will also be provided with a broad range of stakeholder strategiesdesigned to effectively address these challenges within integrated national and regional approaches.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alan Nankervis is Professor of Human Resource Management at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests lie in human resource strategy, international HRM, and HRM in the tourism industry.
Verma Prikshat is Lecturer at the Australian Institute of Business in Adelaide, Australia, whose research focuses on human resource competency frameworks, comparative Asian human resource management practices, and employability challenges in the Asia-Pacific region.
Subas P. Dhakal isLecturer in the School of Management at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, working in the field of sustainable development. His research experiences/areas of interests include: Corporate Social Responsibility; Disaster Governance; Green Employment/Skills; Social Entrepreneurship; and Sustainable Tourism in the South Asian/Asia Pacific regions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Transition from Graduation to Work
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Strategies in the Twenty-First Century Asia Pacific and Beyond
Editors: Subas Dhakal, Verma Prikshat, Alan Nankervis, John Burgess
Series Title: Work, Organization, and Employment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0974-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0973-1Published: 14 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4541-8Published: 08 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0974-8Published: 26 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2520-8837
Series E-ISSN: 2520-8845
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 263
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Resource Development, Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Career Skills