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Narratives of senior student needs in preparation for employment
Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2021.
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| author | Cronje, Liesl Cornelia |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/123711 Narratives of senior student needs in preparation for employment Cronje, Liesl Cornelia Frick, Beatrice Liezel Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Curriculum Studies. Higher Education Graduate students -- Information storage and retrieval systems Graduate students -- Employment -- Vocational guidance Graduate students -- Information services UCTD Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Becoming a graduate is not as straightforward as it seems. This study focuses on what we can learn from senior students’ narratives about their needs towards preparation for employment. Although the graduate unemployment rate is not as concerning as the overall unemployment rate in South Africa, graduate unemployment is not conducive for future leadership and development of the country. Research shows that graduates feel unprepared to enter the job market. The rapidly changing world of work requires competent graduates with an expanded skill set. Different approaches to employability exist as to how employability competencies can be developed. However, the students’ voices regarding preparation for employment do not feature prominently in these discourses. By using the human capabilities approach as theoretical point of departure, a conceptual framework towards understanding students’ needs in preparing for employment was developed. The conceptual framework assisted in identifying themes regarding student needs towards being employable. Themes include students’ patterns of thinking, affect or emotion, career related behaviour, and material, personal and social resources. The narratives were collected through nine online open-ended interviews with six honours students and three postgraduate diploma students, from purposely selected university departments. The data were analysed through the listening guide method. Although needs in terms of personal and social resources were evident, it also became clear that preparing for employment is an individualised process of developing an ability to become employable and be employed. Positioning of the student’s needs in terms of resources to be employed furthermore suggested the formation of a successful professional identity, or not. Open-ended interviews, built on the method of narrative storytelling, can enhance our understanding of employability as a multi-faceted issue that extends beyond the prospective employer and the higher education institution, to include the student. The present study indicates that student confidence plays an important part towards a better understanding of students’ preparation for employment. This study presents a professional identity model as a method to guide a student in transitioning towards employment. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING Die proses om ‘n gegradueerde te word is nie voor die hand liggend nie. Hierdie studie fokus op wat ons kan leer uit die stories van senior studente en hul behoeftes wanneer hulle voorberei vir die werksmark. Alhoewel die werkloosheidsyfer vir gegradueerdes nie so hoog is as die algehele werkloosheidsyfer in Suid-Afrika nie, is werkloosheid van gegradueerdes nie bydraend tot die toekomstige leierskap en ontwikkeling van die land nie. Navorsing wys dat gegradueerdes onvoorbereid voel ten opsigte van hul toetrede tot die werksmark. Die vinnig veranderende wereld van werk vereis ook gegradueerdes wat bekwaam is en wat uitgebreide vaardighede besit. Verskillende benaderings bestaan in terme van die ontwikkeling van vaardighede tot gegradueerde indiensneming. Die studentestem ten opsigte van voorbereiding vir indiensneming kom egter nie sterk na vore nie. As teoretiese vertrekpunt vir hierdie studie is die menslike vaardigheidsbenadering gebruik om ‘n konsepraamwerk te ontwikkel waarvolgens temas ten opsigte van die behoeftes van student, ter voorbereiding vir die werksmark, geïdentifiseer kon word. Temas sluit in: studente se denkpatrone, loopbaangedrag, die invloed van emosies op optrede, asook hul posisionering ten opsigte van hul materiele- persoonlike en sosiale hulpbronne. Die narratiewe is versamel deur nege oop aanlyn-onderhoude met ses honneursstudente en drie nagraadse diploma-studente in doelbewus-gekose departemente. Die data is geanaliseer deur die luistergidsmetode. Alhoewel behoeftes in terme van persoonlike en sosiale hulpbronne ooglopend was, het dit ook al hoe meer duidelik geword dat voorbereiding vir indiensneming ‘n individuele proses behels van groei tot indiensneming, asook om fisies in diens geneem te word. Hoe studente geposisioneer is in terme van hul hulpbronne tot indiensneming, stel verder die vormering van ‘n professionele identiteit voor, of nie. Onderhoude, gebou op die metode van narratiewe storievertelling, kan die verstaan van indiensneming as ‘n konsep met baie verskillende fasette bevorder. Hierdie verstandhouding strek verder as net die toekomstige werkgewer en hoer onderwysinstellings, om ook die stem van die student in te sluit. Hierdie studie dui aan dat ‘n student se selfvertroue ‘n belangrike rol speel in die volledige verstaan van studente se voorbereiding vir indiensneming en stel ‘n professionele identiteitsmodel voor wat studente kan lei in die oorbrugging na die werksmark. Masters 2021-10-15T11:30:44Z 2021-12-22T14:17:13Z 2021-10-15T11:30:44Z 2021-12-22T14:17:13Z 2021-12 xiii, 113 pages : illustrations Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123711 en_ZA Stellenbosch University xiii, 109 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Higher Education Graduate students -- Information storage and retrieval systems Graduate students -- Employment -- Vocational guidance Graduate students -- Information services UCTD Cronje, Liesl Cornelia Narratives of senior student needs in preparation for employment |
| title | Narratives of senior student needs in preparation for employment |
| title_full | Narratives of senior student needs in preparation for employment |
| title_fullStr | Narratives of senior student needs in preparation for employment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Narratives of senior student needs in preparation for employment |
| title_short | Narratives of senior student needs in preparation for employment |
| title_sort | narratives of senior student needs in preparation for employment |
| topic | Higher Education Graduate students -- Information storage and retrieval systems Graduate students -- Employment -- Vocational guidance Graduate students -- Information services UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123711 |
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