FAQ

Employ-ability is the ability to create and sustain meaningful work across the career lifespan (Bennett, 2017). Students need to learn how to manage this aspect of their work and learning before they graduate.

The Developing Employ-ability Initiative engages with 25 higher education institutions and more than 1,000 scholars internationally. The Initiative is led by Professor Dawn Bennett at Curtin University in Western Australia. The Initiative welcomes new members including researchers, educators, careers and equity practitioners and policy makers.

Employ-ability thinking engages students as partners in their development. As a metacognitive approach to employability or career development learning, the approach aligns employability with both the purpose of higher education and the future of work.

Employ-ability thinking:
• Engages students in their cognitive and social development as capable and informed individuals, professionals and social citizens; and
• Prompts students to understand why they think the way they think, how to critique and learn the unfamiliar, and how their values, beliefs and assumptions can inform and be informed by their learning, lives and careers.

Every student should learn to engage in employability thinking.

This can be achieved within the curriculum and without the need additional time, expertise and resources.

Learn about employ-ability thinking and how to get started here.

I’m interested in the Employ-ability self-assessment tool, but I would like to see the instrument before my students use it. Is this possible?
Of Course! You can test the student self-assessment tool by using the word ‘test’ when asked for your student number and cohort code.

If you’d like to see a sample personalised profile report that the students receive you can find it here.

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Yes! Please share your ideas at any time. Each resource is trialled and refined for effectiveness and pedagogical rigour. The resources range from 10-minute tools through to semester-long careers research tasks, and some tools are combined to create resource sets which tackle a distinct topic.

We are currently working on a version of the tool for high school students and hope to make this a reality in 2020. In the meantime, all our resources are free for use with any cohort.