Are freelancers a breed apart? The role of protean and boundaryless career attitudes in employability and career success

Recent economic and organisational changes have fostered an increasing diversification of the workforce, among whom freelancers are an under‐represented population in the literature. This study aimed at examining the role of protean and boundaryless career, professional commitment, and employability activities in fostering freelancers' subjective career success. Data were collected via an online survey among a sample of 425 Italian freelancers and analysed through structural equation modelling. Results partially confirmed several hypotheses: higher self‐directed career management and boundaryless mindset predicted higher employability activities and professional commitment; moreover, employability and professional commitment acted as mediators between career attitudes and subjective career success. The study provides support for the importance of such variables to freelancers' career success, as well as for the significance of protean and boundaryless careers among nontraditional occupational groups. Interventions aimed at fostering such attitudes could support freelancers in improving their attainment of professional progress and perception of career success.     

浅谈如何提高大学生就业能力

本文以大学生就业能力为切入点,分析大学生就业能力存在不足之处,从高校和大学生两个层面入手,总结如何提高大学生就业能力的做法。     

做好生涯规划 培养就业能力

高职学生做好职业生涯规划是培养自身就业能力的一个有效途径。本文主要分析了高职学生职业生涯规划的重要意义,职业生涯规划的内涵,具体实施步骤以及实施策略。在此基础上,提高学生的就业能力。     

Utility of university curricula in contemporary times: Perspectives of employers in the Cape Coast Metropolis

The majority of studies and reports on university education in Africa have focused mainly on issues related to access, quality, teaching and learning environment, and so on. Although these issues are undoubtedly critical, even more germane to the discourse is the desired utility of university education to society. The authors present the perspective of employers on their expectations from university graduates. The authors employed the qualitative research approach. Four financial institutions from the Cape Coast Metropolis were purposively sampled. An in-depth interview guide was employed for data collection, which was analyzed using thematic content analysis. The authors found that graduates are strong in theory but deficient in application of knowledge.     

Career self-management behaviour of Western self-initiated expatriates in local organizations in China

The available literature on self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) is generally based on the assumption that SIEs are protean in character and manage their careers independently. The current qualitative empirical study offers an alternative to this assumption, using 23 interviews with Western SIEs employed by local organizations in China to examine how and why SIEs target obtaining a labour market fit through career self-management behaviour, particularly in culturally distant career contexts. The assessment of the career self-management behaviour of Western SIEs was undertaken using King's framework (2004). Three approaches to self-management behaviour were identified based on the motivation and outcome expectations of SIEs: labour market entry, employability maintenance and career advancement. The research illustrates the flexible and dynamic nature of career self-management behaviour and reflects individuals' revised career expectations and the employment context of the host country. The findings contribute to the extant theory on SIEs by illustrating emerging means of realizing international careers in cross-cultural career contexts, and the significance of third-party initiatives supporting expatriation facilitated by the Internet and social media.     

Crowdsourcing and work: individual factors and circumstances influencing employability

The development of a fast and reliable Internet, new technologies online payment systems, and changes in work structure that enable and demand flexible working patterns have driven a move to a new form of Internet‐enabled labour exchange called crowdsourcing. Evidence from an in‐depth qualitative study is presented, focusing on selected users' interactions and experiences of working on two UK‐based crowdsourcing platforms. The paper shows that workers engaged in this form of labour exchange need to deploy existing employability skills and networks to effectively meet the challenges, and take advantage of the opportunities, that crowdsourcing presents. Individual factors and circumstances emerge as paramount for workers' continued engagement in this form of employment. Using selected components from an employability framework, the findings suggest that crowdsourcing can offer new pathways to practising skills and enhancing employability for some workers.     

过度教育影响下大学生就业难的问题研究

从我国高等教育发展的进程来看,自扩招以来我国的确实现了高等教育精英式向大众化的转变,但是伴随着高等教育大众化的进程我国又出现了过度教育的现象,然而在过度教育的同时大学生又面临就业困难的局面,二者并不是谁决定了谁,而是一种相互影响的关系,文章从过度教育的视角下对大学生就业难的现象进行分析并提出了一些解决措施与对策。     

基于职业能力培养的陕西民办高校学生就业力提升研究

民办教育是我国高等教育的重要组成部分,也是职业技术教育的高等阶段,其目标是培养高级技术应用型人才。民办高校学生就业力的强弱是其在竞争中取胜的关键。本研究通过调研与文献资料分析的方法,对陕西民办高校学生职业能力及就业力进行深入分析,基于职业能力培养的基础上为提高学生的就业力提出相关策略。     

关于中职学校学生就业能力培养方式与方法的实践与研究

本文拟从实践调查与研究的角度分析探索中职学生就业能力培养的理论主张和可行性建议,并以此基础构建基于职业岗位能力的中职学生就业能力理论模型及柱状图测评分析体系,形成较为可行的中职学生就业能力培养模式。     

新形势下提高职校学生创业意识和就业能力的思考

本文针对当前严峻的毕业生就业问题进行分析,说明毕业生就业能力的现状,再提出相应的有效措施,从而有效加强高职院校毕业生的创业意识,提升毕业生的就业能力,最终有效改善毕业生就业难的问题。