Developing and Utilizing Employability Capitals

Tran Le Huu Nghia is a Research Fellow in work-integrated learning and graduate employability at the College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, Australia Thanh Pham is a Lecturer in graduate employability and higher education at the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia Michael Tomlinson is an Associate Professor and a leading researcher in graduate employability at the University of Southampton, UK Karen Medica is a Lecturer in the Business School at Monash University, Australia Christopher D. Thompson is Associate Dean (Education) at the Faculty of Science, Monash University, Australia

An overview of the current policy and conceptual landscape of graduate employability 1. The need to develop graduate employability for a globalized world 2. Employability, employability capital, and career development: A literature review 3. Using narrative inquiry and critical reflection to examine graduate employability and career development 4. Toward securing employment in the host country: Personal agency in early career journey 5. Differences in experiences of career development in host and home countries 6. Beyond human capital: The role of other types of capital in graduates’ career development 7. Beyond human capital: Combining different employability capitals for career development 8. Developing and using social networks for occupational mobility in different labour markets 9. Using personal agency in achieving different career goals 10. Career development as a journey to construct professional identity 11. Circumnavigation: Supporting employability by developing ‘capitals’ 12. Why should I walk the same career development pathways as everyone else? 13. Employability and determinants of employment outcomes 14.The way ahead for the employability agenda in higher education