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Enhancing the employability of young adults from socio-economically challenged contexts
The devastating unemployment rate in South-Africa has the biggest effect on young adults from socio-economically challenged backgrounds. This study used career counselling with life design principles to explore the growth capacity of unemployed young adults’ career adaptability skills to enhance the...
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| description | The devastating unemployment rate in South-Africa has the biggest effect on young adults from socio-economically challenged backgrounds. This study used career counselling with life design principles to explore the growth capacity of unemployed young adults’ career adaptability skills to enhance their employability. The study is embedded in a constructivist paradigm with elements of social constructivist and pragmatism with an interpretive stance. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were implemented, using a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test comparison group-design to explore the possible effect of the intervention. The outcomes of the study show it was possible to positively influence the career adaptability and employability skills of young adults in socio-economically disadvantaged contexts through career and employability counselling. |
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/68014 Enhancing the employability of young adults from socio-economically challenged contexts Maree, J.G. (Kobus) gerryts.erna@gmail.com Gerryts, Erna Wilhelmina Unrestricted UCTD Employability Career adaptability Career counselling Socio-economically challenged Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-08 Education theses SDG-10 The devastating unemployment rate in South-Africa has the biggest effect on young adults from socio-economically challenged backgrounds. This study used career counselling with life design principles to explore the growth capacity of unemployed young adults’ career adaptability skills to enhance their employability. The study is embedded in a constructivist paradigm with elements of social constructivist and pragmatism with an interpretive stance. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were implemented, using a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test comparison group-design to explore the possible effect of the intervention. The outcomes of the study show it was possible to positively influence the career adaptability and employability skills of young adults in socio-economically disadvantaged contexts through career and employability counselling. es2026 Educational Psychology PhD Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth SDG-10: Reduced inequalities 2018-12-05T08:06:28Z 2018-12-05T08:06:28Z 2009/07/18 2018 Thesis Gerryts, EW 2018, Enhancing the employability of young adults from socio-economically challenged contexts, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68014> S2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68014 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Unrestricted UCTD Employability Career adaptability Career counselling Socio-economically challenged Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-08 Education theses SDG-10 Enhancing the employability of young adults from socio-economically challenged contexts |
| title | Enhancing the employability of young adults from socio-economically challenged contexts |
| title_full | Enhancing the employability of young adults from socio-economically challenged contexts |
| title_fullStr | Enhancing the employability of young adults from socio-economically challenged contexts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing the employability of young adults from socio-economically challenged contexts |
| title_short | Enhancing the employability of young adults from socio-economically challenged contexts |
| title_sort | enhancing the employability of young adults from socio economically challenged contexts |
| topic | Unrestricted UCTD Employability Career adaptability Career counselling Socio-economically challenged Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-08 Education theses SDG-10 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68014 |