BBS200 Accounting and Finance For Employability Skills

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Jackson, Denise. 2014. “Testing a model of undergraduate competence in employability skills and its implications for stakeholder.” Journal of Education and Work 27 (2): 220-242.

The ongoing article examines the validations that whether the business students are work ready. The present article by the authors is based on investigating the skills, behaviours and knowledge that graduates typically require to develop for their first job as graduate (Jackson 2016). The aim of the research was to understand whether the business graduates are having the job-readiness. Jackson, Denise (2014) have felt that business students have strong communications skills developed from university but also believed that the real experience of finishing the tasks at the workplace under the profession environment is the only manner to understand truly and implement them. The research was conducted based on the quantitative methods with total respondents of 25 students. The research instrument that was adopted by the researcher was based on the interviews. The weakness of the research that was identified was the lack of quantitative data from the survey.  

The author Associate Professor Denise Jackson is the work-Integrated learning coordinator at the school of business and law. The author is the National Board Member and WA state chair for Australian collaborative education network.

Wilton, Nick 2011 Do employability skills really matter in UK graduate labour market? The case of business and management graduates. Work, Employment & Society 25 (1): 85-100:

In this article according to Wilton, Nick (2011) it is not always considered as constant with the work-readiness skills. The purpose of the article was to understand whether the graduates are having the work ready. While the formal educations provide the business students with the confidence of knowing what they are capable of learning it more specific skills and knowledge however it does not directly educate the business students with the skills. Certainly there are certain particular way of doing things and communicating in the recruitment that might be applicable in this sector however these otherwise taken for granted everyday jobs are correspondingly implemented in wide range of organizations. Receiving the positive feedback is regarded as the opportunity for education for the graduates and illustrates the manner in which a university imparts educations.

The participants of the research were the academics comprising of the lecturers and professors. The research conducted by Wilton, Nick (2011) suggest that there are some business graduates that find hard to speak up if they are struggling with the work. The research instrument that was adopted by the researcher was based on the observations of study pattern in Universities.

University learnings might be able to lend support towards work readiness for the business students through job-based training and experience. This can lead to a positive prospect for the business students and helps in supporting them during their transition from work to employment. The article identified that internships can be regarded as the better tool for creating workforce however adequate, better quality opportunities may not be readily available and several students would want or required to work in part-time straight across their degree programme.

Nick Wilton is the Associate Head of the Department for Business and Management and Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Department at the Bristol Business Schol, University of West England in Bristol.  

Daniels, Jeannie, and Jennifer Brooker. 2014 "Student identity development in higher education: implications for graduate attributes and work-readiness." Educational Research 56, no. 1: 65-76.

Improving the employability of the graduates is regarded as the priority for several stakeholders in the higher educations and the research is based on the exploration of graduate’s experience and attitude towards the enclosure of employment related support in the undergraduate programmes. The findings are triangulated in the workshop with 23 graduate’s careers advisory professionals. The outcomes obtained reflected an important trend in the experience and attitude along with the variations by the discipline and gender. Whereas one in 10 graduates prefer the disciplinary focus with the indirect attention in the direction of employability. While nine out of ten wanted employability to have the greater focus on the integrated approach.

Jeannie Daniels and Jennifer Brooker is the head professor at the school of education whereas also worked the lecturer in the University of West of Scotland. Jennifer Brooker worked as lecturer in the school of Global, Urban and Social Studies.

Ferns, Sonia, C. Smith, and Leoni Russell. 2014 "The impact of work integrated learning on student work-readiness.".

The primary objective of the research was to ascertain the effect of the work integrated learning on the employability development and capabilities of the students. With the increasing importance of simulations as the alternative or complements to placements, the effect of both the placements and simulations that were examined. There are certain associations that raises questions associated to the conceptualization and measurement of the work-readiness and WIL. The contribution of WIL was assessed following the controlling factors namely the work experience, progress through grade, age simulations activities and career development enhancement learning activities. The findings from the research categorically provides confirmation that WIL placement have the effect on the work-readiness of the student to contribute towards employability.

The author Sonia Ferns is the learning curricular educator while Ms Leoni Russel is the senior Educational Advisor while Smith holds the Office of Dean at the Learning and Teaching, RMIT.  

Herbert, Ian P., and Stephanie Lambert. 2016. "The case of the ‘sunset and the sunrise’economies in the global, digitalised, knowledge-based economy: what future for careers?.".

In this article Herbert, Ian and Stephanie (2016) explained that employability skills forms the only aspects of employability. The researcher obtain their sample through the observation data of the job oriented universities that provides technical and skill related knowledge to the students. The research participants mainly comprised of lecturers and professors from Work Integrated Learning which explained that employability studies usually assumes that adequate entry-level work is available. Nevertheless, the modern day challenge is to better structure the internships learning opportunities. The research instrument that was adopted by the researcher was based on the face to face conversation that emphasized on east to learning scheme. The innovative earn to learn scheme proposed by Herbert, Ian and Stephanie (2016) aims in providing better resolution to the current problems across the work readiness by promoting organizations to open up the roles at the entry level for the graduates. Such schemes would help in improving the business student’s work-readiness and employability.

Furthermore, these schemes would not help in reducing the level of debt for the business students but would also help the employers in cost effective and flexible sourcing of solutions leading to acquisition and development of the emerging scarce talents (Hannon et al. 2017). Such projects would help in bringing together the organizations, consultants, outsource providers, policy creators, educator and the government to share the alternative approaches which can promote sustainable policies of labour.

The authors selected in this research are the members of Global Sourcing Research Interest Group for Global Sourcing and Services at the University of Loughborough. Stephanie Lambert and Ian Herbert are the researcher in this area of student learning and curriculum design and has extensively published in this area. 

References:

Daniels, Jeannie, and Jennifer Brooker. "Student identity development in higher education: implications for graduate attributes and work-readiness." Educational Research 56, no. 1 (2014): 65-76.

Ferns, Sonia, C. Smith, and Leoni Russell. "The impact of work integrated learning on student work-readiness." (2014).

Herbert, Ian P., and Stephanie Lambert. 2016. "The case of the ‘sunset and the sunrise’economies in the global, digitalised, knowledge-based economy: what future for careers?.".

Jackson, Denise. 2014. “Testing a model of undergraduate competence in employability skills and its implications for stakeholder.” Journal of Education and Work 27 (2): 220-242.

Wilton, Nick 2011 Do employability skills really matter in UK graduate labour market? The case of business and management graduates. Work, Employment & Society 25 (1): 85-100: