this paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in malaysia as construed in public discourse in english, a language of power in malaysia. the term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of malaysia, the english-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...

Article history: Received 22 August 2012 Available online 17 November 2012 Unemployment bearsmanynegative consequences for both individuals and societies. Particularly the long-term unemployed face poor chances of finding reemployment, and many recommendations issued in the regular unemployment literature may not apply to them. Therefore, the current study investigates whether employability (Fu...

OBJECTIVES This study identified perceived employability trajectories and their associations with sleeping difficulties and depressive symptoms over time. METHODS The sample was part of the Swedish Longitudinal Survey on Health from 2008 to 2014 (n=4,583). RESULTS Two stable trajectories (high and low perceived employability over time) and three trajectories with changes (increasing, decrea...

The importance of developing employability attributes within university graduates is gaining rapid momentum in the UK. One reason for this is that employers in the UK are disappointed by the quality of graduates moving into the workforce; this sentiment has also been echoed by the UK Government. With this in mind, attempts have been made to identify general attributes that lead to employability...

Employability is potential of a person for gaining and maintains employment. Employability is measure through the education, personal development and understanding power. Employability is not the similar as ahead a graduate job, moderately it implies something almost the capacity of the graduate to function in an employment and be capable to move between jobs, therefore remaining employable thr...

This paper draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, to introduce employability as a cultural fantasy that organizes identity around the desire to shape, exploit and ultimately profit from an employable self. Specifically, the paper shows how individuals seek to overcome their subjective and material alienation by maximizing their self-exploitation through constantly enhancing their employability. This...

China has limitedly encouraged the talent flow, in which the flow of young talents mainly including the university graduates draws many people's attention. But the recent employment of university graduates is not desirable. The key of this problem lies in the ability of university graduates does not meet the demand of units, so it is necessary now to solve the problem of employability of univer...

The main objectives of the study are to examine moderating role of emotional intelligence between personality traits and employability in the students of Malaysian public universities. The data were collected from (380) business students by applying stratified random sampling. The SEM and CFA Technique has adapted to examine relationship between personality trait emotional intelligence and empl...