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    Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students

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    Authors
    Bennett, Dawn
    Knight, E.
    Bell, K.
    Date
    2020
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Bennett, D. and Knight, E. and Bell, K. 2020. Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students. Teaching in Higher Education. 25 (6): pp. 750-765.
    Source Title
    Teaching in Higher Education
    DOI
    10.1080/13562517.2020.1759529
    ISSN
    1356-2517
    Faculty
    Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence Centre
    School
    Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence Centre
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81455
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. If graduates from STEMM–science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical sciences–are to successfully navigate the labour market, they need diverse capabilities alongside self- and career awareness. The focus of this study was STEMM students’ perceptions of self, career and employability. The study asked over 2,000 commencing students to respond to an open question which asked how long they intended to work in their discipline. The findings lend weight to the use of social cognitive career theory, which emphasises that career- and study-related decision making are influenced by feedback and feed-forward mechanisms and by intra- and inter-personal, historical, and contemporaneous dimensions. The article ends with implications for higher education teachers, including the need for strategies with which to help a diverse student body create meaning from the career-related messages that abound in public discourse.

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