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Jisun Jung; Xiaoshi Li – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Many master's students enrol in coursework-based programmes to improve their professional knowledge and skills for the job market. Most studies of employability in higher education focus on undergraduates rather than master's students, although the number of master's students worldwide has increased significantly in recent years. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Masters Programs
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Deanne K. Unruh; Keith Smolkowski; Jeff M. Gau; Kyle Reardon; Katherine W. Bromley; John R. Seeley; Lisa A. Strycker – Grantee Submission, 2024
This cluster-randomized efficacy trial evaluated the impact of the Ready for Wages intervention, a classroom-based social skills program designed to improve the employability of youth living and being educated in juvenile justice settings. Fifteen juvenile justice facility schools participated. Data were collected from 118 classrooms: 59 treatment…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Juvenile Justice, Correctional Education
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Deanne K. Unruh; Keith Smolkowski; Jeff M. Gau; Kyle Reardon; Katherine W. Bromley; John R. Seeley; Lisa A. Strycker – Journal of Correctional Education, 2024
This cluster-randomized efficacy trial evaluated the impact of the Ready for Wages intervention, a classroom-based social skills program designed to improve the employability of youth living and being educated in juvenile justice settings. Fifteen juvenile justice facility schools participated. Data were collected from 118 classrooms: 59 treatment…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Juvenile Justice, Correctional Education
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Md Mahfuzur Rahman; Gazi Mahabubul Alam; Nor Azni Binti Abdul Aziz; Karima Bashir; Romana Kader – Industry and Higher Education, 2024
Reasons for the emerging mismatch between education and the labor market, its impact and the resolving mechanisms have been well studied. However, mismatch continues to be very problematic. Moreover, the new era of digitalization and artificial intelligence is accelerating this crisis. Acknowledging this tenet, we investigate further--whether a…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Business Administration Education, Banking, Alignment (Education)
Katie L. McDermott – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Nursing education programs are faced with urgent demands to transition to competency-based education (CBE) to address the limitations of the nursing workforce. The AACN (2021) has developed the Essentials, or the core competencies for graduating entry- and advanced-level nurses to inform CBE. A concept analysis of Foundational Competence was…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Nurses, Nursing Education
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Ismail Ay; Seyma Özeken – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
This study aims to examine the impact of group counseling practice conducted with undergraduate psychological counseling and guidance (PCG) students on their counseling self-efficacy levels. The study group consisted of 36 third-year students enrolled in the Group Counseling Principles and Techniques course in the spring semester of 2019 at the…
Descriptors: Group Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness, Undergraduate Students, Self Efficacy
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Noelle C. Dimitri; Cali-Ryan Collin; Rebekah S. Halmo; Emma S. Wright; Nicole Dodillet – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2024
This qualitative study aims to examine foundation year Master of Social Work (MSW) students' experiences with the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) using a holistic framework. Study participants included 64 MSW students who completed a 15-minute virtual OSCE with standardized patients and expert observers followed by a five minute…
Descriptors: Caseworkers, Social Work, Masters Programs, Graduate Students
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Bruno Siano Rêgo; Diogo Lourenço; Fernando Moreira; Carla Santos Pereira – Industry and Higher Education, 2024
Digital transformation (DT) is raising new challenges. This article seeks to understand how DT has changed business strategies, requiring a new profile of professionals, analyzing the most sought-after skills and identifying opportunities for future professionals. Also, it studies whether universities have incorporated in their training the new…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Digital Literacy, 21st Century Skills, Job Skills
Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2023
Spurred on in part by the labor shortages caused the pandemic, a growing number of employers are eliminating their degree requirements in favor of a skills-based approach to hiring. "Skills-based hiring" focuses on the actual skills and qualifications someone brings to the job instead of just the degree they've earned. For job seekers,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Personnel Selection, Community Colleges, Value Judgment
Michael Dean Barker – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The emergence of new credentials is changing the landscape of traditional post-secondary education. The tight labor market's rising demand to fill vacancies in high-demand career fields such as cybersecurity has led to so-called "alternative credentials" to rapidly upskill and reskill existing professionals to move into the industry.…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Credentials, Employment Qualifications, Labor Needs
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Gamble, Jeanne – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2022
Whether there is or should be a relation between 'occupation' and 'qualification' is a contested issue in vocational education and training (VET). The privileged shelter of structured occupational labour markets stands pitted against the near impossibility of access by those at the margins of employment opportunities. This paper investigates the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Occupations, Labor Market, Employment Opportunities
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I. Zouaoui; M. J. Drolet; C. Briand – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Over the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in the role of universities in developing generic skills, in addition to disciplinary ones, to help students adapt to a changing workplace. The need to develop these skills is particularly critical for healthcare students who must face challenges in health systems. This scoping study,…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Allied Health Occupations Education, Soft Skills, Job Skills
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Andrew Jenkins – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
This paper draws on longitudinal birth cohort data for Britain to analyse participation in learning activities by people in their 30s and 40s. People in this age group have received less attention than either young adults or people in retirement. Yet technical change and the need for new skills make it important for them to engage in learning to…
Descriptors: Adults, Midlife Transitions, Lifelong Learning, Job Skills
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Zanele Muntu Gule; Edwards A. Alademerin; Marietta P. Dlamini – Journal of Research in Technical Careers, 2023
The skills gap between agricultural education graduates from the University of Eswatini (UNESWA) and what employers are searching for is growing. Literature informs that this is mostly owing to the world's rapid changes, with ICT serving as the primary change engine, necessitating new sets of abilities from graduates as well as up-to-date teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Education, 21st Century Skills, Job Skills
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Juan Francisco Castro; Lorena Ortega; Gustavo Yamada; David Mata – Comparative Education, 2024
Occupational mismatch is a highly debated phenomenon in developed countries, but rarely addressed in developing economies. This study investigates the magnitudes of overeducation and overskilling in four Latin American countries in which tertiary education has expanded rapidly (i.e. Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru). Using objective and subjective…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Employment Level, Job Skills, Adults
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