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BUSM4558Week11employmentassistance021018student.pptxBUSM4558 Work in a Global Society
Week 11 Employer Recruitment and Career Assistance
Objectives:
Discuss the recruitment strategies of employers and how they are changing
Consider the role of job services and career advisors in assisting people to find employment.
Career advice at RMIT
Investigate how job service and career advice work has changed in recent years.
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The Context: Gen Y & the Competitive Labour Market
According to Australia’s Grattan Institute (2016), the share of new bachelor graduates who are unemployed or underemployed four months after graduation is at its highest since the 1970s.
In 2014, only 68 per cent of Australia’s new bachelor degree graduates were working full-time four months after graduating compared with 85 per cent in 2008 (Graduate Careers Australia, 2015).
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Employability
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‘… employability is about being capable of getting and keeping fulfilling work. More comprehensively employability is the capability to move self-sufficiently within the labour market to realise potential through sustainable employment’ (Hillage and Pollard 1998: 2).
But this is a conceptually confused term
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Aspects of Employability
Three aspects
Employability assets ie knowledge, skills and attitudes
Deployment ie career management skills and job search skills
Presentation ie job getting skills eg CV writing and interview techniques
But for a person’s ability to make the most of their employability assets depends on their personal circumstances eg family responsibilities and external factors eg state of the labour market (Hillage and Pollard, 1998)
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Pool and Sewell (2007) CareerEDGE
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Critiques of Employability
Criticisms of employability
Absolves state and employers of responsibility
Responsibility given to individuals to take initiative, improve their skills and be flexible and adaptable
Ignores social distinctions eg age, gender, social background, disability and ethnicity
Shifts university focus from education to employability (Chertkovskaya et al., 2013)
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How do employers recruit?
Employers use a wide range of recruitment methods to fill vacancies.
According to Australia’s Department of Employment (2016):
More than half of all vacancies are advertised on-line or in a newspaper.
Around one in seen vacancies are filled using an employment agency
One third of vacancies are not formally advertised
Online personality/psychometric tests (i.e. ‘soft skills’ ) are being used to select/exclude candidates.
Types of Measures: agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness to new ideas.
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What are the implications for your employment opportunities?
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How do employers recruit?
The hiring process is becoming automated:
Software tools powered by algorithms are being used to screen, hire and onboard candidates
“In the US, some 72 per cent of CVs are never seen by human eyes. Computer programs flip through them, pulling out the skills and experiences that the employer is looking for. Then they score each CV as a match for the job opening….the result of these programs is that those with the money and resources to prepare their resumes come out on top” (Lane, 2016).
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The Recruitment Process
Recruitment websites act to:
Allow viewers to search for information and ‘signs’ of employability
Assess themselves against the ideal graduate worker and themselves as the employable graduate (Handley, 2017)
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What is in Graduate Recruitment Websites?
Tended to focus on attitudes or values eg ‘passion for the cause’, ‘strong work ethic’
Conversations and imagery provided employers with space to convey the idealised graduate
Use of ‘we’ to demonstrate the importance of fitting in
Encourages some and discourages others from applying (Handley, 2017)
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Reasons for optimism:
According to research conducted by Foundation for Young Australians (2016):
“Young people are skilled for more jobs than they realise: in fact, when a person trains or works in 1 job, they become skilled for 13 other jobs on average” (22).
Key:
Understand your transferable skills and job clusters.
Don’t think you only have the skills for a particular occupation
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Reasons for optimism:
Assistance to help graduates find employment:
University Careers Centres
Established by Universities to assist students and graduates with career choices, job search and employment assistance.
According to one Australian study:
“…not only did most graduates not use these services, they were often completely unaware of them” (McKeown and Lindorff 2011: 310).
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Career Advice at RMIT
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RMIT CareerHub : Go for a visit!!
http://www1.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=fgvzmhnomtrm
Global Study and Work:
http://www1.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=nawg3036638e1
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Building Your Employability
Have a look at the handout on Canvas week 11 from the RMIT Student Career Services
It outlines many of the ideas and themes we have talked about today
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University Careers Centres
“..an important determinant of a graduate’s success in identifying and capturing career opportunities is an accurate assessment of their own strengths and career interests, as only these can lead to successful person-job fit (Lau and Pang,2000). This is an area where university career services (UCCs) are expected to play a key role, as they are designed to be a starting point for information, resources, programs and employment opportunities” (McKeown and Lindorff 2011: 311).
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Summing up:
“By understanding the skills and capabilities that will be
most portable and in demand in the new economy, young
people can work to equip themselves for the future
of work more effectively. Our mindset needs to shift
to reflect a more dynamic future of work where linear
careers will be far less common and young people will
need a portfolio of skills and capabilities, including career
management skills to navigate the more complex world
of work” (Foundation for Young Australian: 2016: 3).
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Key concepts and essay questions:
Questions:
What are some of the challenges confronting Gen Y graduates in finding employment? Discuss drawing upon the debates raised in the readings throughout the semester.
Reflect on your own skills, experience and attributes and discuss how they might assist you in occupational mobility and career opportunities?
“…graduates and staff of UCCs (University Career Centres) recognise graduates’ initial high and unrealistic expectations about job prospects and the job market…..both groups agree that graduates initially tend to have inflated expectations of themselves and their work ability, and believe there will be many jobs for them to choose from, as well as overestimating where their degree will take them. However, they become aware of the mismatch over time and may end up accepting any job just to gain a foothold into the labour market” (McKeown and Lindorff 2011: 317). Discuss.
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References
Foundation for Young Australians (2016) The New Mindset. Foundation for Young Australians: Sydney.
Gratten Institute (2016) Mapping Australian Higher Education. Gratten Institute.
Lane, A. (2016) ‘How algorithms rule our working lives’ The Guardian 1 September
Manroop, L. and Richardson, J. (2016) ‘Job Search: A Multidisciplinary Review and Research Agenda International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 18, 206–227.
McKeown, T. and Lindorff, M. (2011),"The graduate job search process – a lesson in persistence rather than good career management?", Education + Training, 53 (4): 310 – 320
OECD (2012) Activating Jobseekers: How Australia Does It. Paris: OECD Publishing.
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