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Do Employers Really Require Experience? An Analysis of Online Job Adverts and the Implications for HE Policy

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  • المؤلفون: Piróg, Danuta (ORCID Piróg, Danuta (ORCID 0000-0001-6735-4928); Hibszer, Adam (ORCID Hibszer, Adam (ORCID 0000-0002-1416-7464)
  • اللغة:
    English
  • المصدر:
    Studies in Higher Education. 2022 47(11):2138-2160.
  • الموضوع:
    2022
  • نوع التسجيلة:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Research
    Information Analyses
  • معلومة اضافية
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • المصدر:
      23
    • Education Level:
      Higher Education
      Postsecondary Education
    • الموضوع:
      Higher Education; Educational Policy; Job Skills; Occupational Information; Employment Opportunities; Work Experience; Labor Market; Employment Potential; College Graduates; Foreign Countries; Earth Science; Geographic Information Systems; Geography; Geology
    • الموضوع:
      Austria; United Kingdom (England); Ireland; Germany; Poland; Switzerland
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1080/03075079.2021.2020747
    • ISSN:
      0307-5079
      1470-174X
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      One of the important roles of HE institutions is to train graduates who will smoothly enter the labour market. The literature review demonstrates that one effective method to facilitate this transition is to ensure students acquire professional experience. The aim was to establish the scale and characteristics of employers' demand for work experience expressed in job adverts. The data sample consisted of 17 397 adverts posted over a period of 18 months and addressed to geography, earth and environmental sciences specialists across six European countries. Quantitative analyses demonstrated that over one third of job postings required work experience. Text mining methods of content analysis revealed differences in the structure of high-importance words in adverts addressed to graduates with no, some or short work experience and those addressed to candidates with more extensive professional experience. A hierarchical cluster analysis helped us identify strong relationships between the word 'experience' and other words in specific subsets of adverts. The analysis led us to determine the characteristics of employers' demand for work experience. The results help outline the directions of education policy for HE institutions regarding market-oriented measures aimed at ensuring work integrated learning which can clearly improve graduates' chances on the labour market.
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      As Provided
    • الموضوع:
      2023
    • الرقم المعرف:
      EJ1370537