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Preparing Students for the Graduate Labour Market: From 'Unfreezing' to 'Action'

This conference presentation by Paul Greenbank explores effective strategies for preparing students for the graduate labor market. Using Kurt Lewin’s 'Three-step Model', it highlights the need for students to critically reflect on their career decisions and understand the job market. Findings from a longitudinal study reveal challenges such as underdeveloped personal capital and indecision regarding career paths. The presentation outlines potential interventions and emphasizes the necessity for testing ideas in varied contexts to ensure their efficacy.

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Preparing Students for the Graduate Labour Market: From 'Unfreezing' to 'Action'

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  1. SOLSTICE & CLT Conference 2014 Preparing students for the graduate labour market: from ‘unfreezing’ to ‘action’ Paul Greenbank, Centre for Learning and Teaching 5th & 6th June 2014

  2. Conceptualising personal capital and a narrative of employability Source: Adapted from Brown and Hesketh (2004)

  3. Research methodology & key findings • 2007-2012 • Initial survey and interviews • Action research • Longitudinal study • Findings • Failure to develop their personal capital • Undecided about career intentions “I just saw the deadlines, panicked and put a couple of applications in. It was just a case of trying to get SOMEWHERE”

  4. Values influencing student approaches to preparing for the graduate labour market

  5. Interventions: Kurt Lewin’s ‘Three-step Model’

  6. Transformative approaches to learning

  7. Strategy for unfreezing the students values Students should: • Be aware of the nature of the graduate labour market • Critically reflect on the way they have made decisions in the past • Critically reflect on a series of case studies • Consider their ‘future possible-selves’

  8. Lewin’s ‘Three-step Model’

  9. An example of the type of interventions that might be implemented over the three years of an undergraduate degree programme

  10. Challenges to implementation • My status as an ‘outsider’ • Interventions are time consuming • Issues about the objectives of the interventions • Implications: • These ideas need testing more rigorously • And in different contexts

  11. Publications Greenbank, P. (2008), ‘An investigation of the factors influencing student participation in collaborative approaches to examination preparation’, in E. O’Doherty (ed.) The Fourth Education in a Changing Environment Conference Book, Informing Science Press, California, Chapter 14, pp. 247-262.   Greenbank, P. (2009a), ‘Re-evaluating the role of social capital in the career decision-making behaviour of working class students’, Research in Post-Compulsory Education, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 157-170. Greenbank, P. (2009b), ‘An examination of the role of values in working class students’ career decision-making’, Journal of Further and Higher Education, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 33-44. Greenbank, P. (2010) Initiating Change in Career Decision-making: an action research approach, Research Study for the Higher Education Careers Service Unit (HECSU), Manchester. Available at: http://www.hecsu.ac.uk/research_reports-initiating_change_in_careers_decision_making.htm[accessed 25/3/14] Greenbank, P. (2011), ‘Improving the process of career decision-making: an action research approach’, Education and Training, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 252-266. Greenbank, P. (2013), ‘Implementing an action research project: a case study in making decisions and managing challenges’, International Journal of Research and Method in Education, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 145-161. Greenbank, P. (2014), ‘Career decision-making: ‘I don’t think twice, but it’ll be all right’ ’, Research in Post-Compulsory Education, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 177-193.   Greenbank, P. (2015), ‘Still focusing on the ‘essential 2:1’: exploring student attitudes to extra-curricular activities’, Education and Training, forthcoming. Greenbank, P. & Hepworth, S. (2008a) Working Class Students and the Career Decision-making Process: a qualitative study, Research Study for the Higher Education Careers Service Unit (HECSU), Manchester. http://www.hecsu.ac.uk/assets/assets/documents/Working_class.pdf [accessed 19/3/14] Greenbank, P. & Hepworth, S. (2008b), ‘Improving the career decision-making behaviour of working class students – do economic barriers stand in the way?’, Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 32, No. 7, pp. 492-509.

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