Description
The Assessment Task
Individual Research Portfolio – 2,200 words
Part One
Research the notion of Graduate Employability and why it is seen as important?
• What is meant by this concept?
• How might it differ from other forms of “employability”?
• How one recruits to the concept of Graduate Employability?
• “Typical” Graduate recruitment practices – best practice.
• Summarise your findings for this part
Part Two
Identify three “large” organisations who recruit graduates.
• Research how they view Graduate Employability and how they “use” it?
• Identify how they recruit and select Graduates
• Interview a Graduate Recruitment Manager from one of the organisations (or another, if not feasible)
• Summarise your findings for this part
Part Three
Compare Part One and Part Two and conduct a “gap analysis”
• Are there any differences between the literature and articles you have analysed and how the organisations you have researched conceptualise and use Graduate Employability?
• Are there any differences between “best practice” Graduate recruitment and the three organisations researched and the Graduate Recruitment Manager interview.
• Summarise your findings for this part
Please make full use of current Literature, articles, surveys and Practitioner guidelines/advice. Don’t forget to use the Appendix for illustrating supporting evidence, information, data etc.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this assessment, you will be able to:
• Develop appropriate research strategies and skills to gather and analyse data about graduate employability.
• Make comparisons between sets of data about graduate recruitment, testing and selection.
• Perform and function effectively to actively meet specificed objectives and fulfil own responsibilities.
