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Martyn Quigley; Charlotte Smith; Eloise Stocker; Alexander Bradley – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to examine university students' knowledge, confidence and experience of popular graduate employer selection tests. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional self-report survey was administered to gather a sufficient number of quantitative responses from undergraduate students. A total of 241…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychology, Employers, Personnel Selection
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Whittard, Damian; Drew, Hilary; Ritchie, Felix – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
The student workforce plays a substantial part in several low-paying industries such as retail and hospitality, and this has grown over time. However, there has been little recent research. The usual assumption is that students compete successfully with the local labour force for low-skill, part-time jobs, but there is little evidence for this.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employers, Student Employment, Employer Attitudes
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Davies, Jade; Heasman, Brett; Livesey, Adam; Walker, Amy; Pellicano, Elizabeth; Remington, Anna – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Autistic people face high unemployment rates. One reason for this may be that hiring processes are inaccessible. This study aimed to establish autistic people's unique experiences of hiring processes in the United Kingdom, by comparing them to the experiences of non-autistic neurodivergent people and neurotypical people. Using qualitative and…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Personnel Selection, Job Applicants, Foreign Countries
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Branine, Mohamed; Avramenko, Alex – Higher Education Quarterly, 2015
The aim of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of higher education and the graduate labour markets in selected European countries (France, Germany, Spain and United Kingdom) in the context of the expectations of graduates and prospective employers, and respective recruitment and selection practices. Expectations of graduating students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Employment, College Graduates