Are Business Students Work-Ready

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Are Business Students Work-Ready?
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Topic: Are Business Students Work-Ready?
Jackson, Denise, Ruth Sibson, and Linda Riebe. "Delivering work-ready business
graduates-keeping our promises and evaluating our performance." Journal of Teaching
and Learning for Graduate Employability 4, no. 1 (2013): 2.
This article highlights the fact that the business schools are reverting to the requests for
graduate work - readiness mainly through the development of work - integrated - learning (WIL),
employability skills, and career management skills. The authors have also highlighted the
importance of clarifying the skills that are needed by the organizations from these graduated
employees. In addition to this, it is important to develop the skills which the organizations would
require. The paper also sketches a systematic approach to evaluate and assess the employability
skill outcomes along with the effectiveness of the learning programs to develop these skills. The
authors state that the implementation of this particular method will not only help the business
students’ work - ready by improving their employability skills but will also act as an integral
component for the business undergraduate curriculums.
However, the research conducted includes secondary data only, so this makes the
information present in the article reliable. Also, this topic is one of the most discussed issues
amongst individuals from various parts of the world. Taking into consideration the fact that the
matter present in this article is digressive as it has been carried out on large sample size.
Jackson, Denise. "Business graduate employability–where are we going wrong?." Higher
Education Research & Development 32, no. 5 (2013): 776-790.
The sole purpose of this article is to discuss and elaborate on the current gaps that prevail
in the non - technical abilities in the business graduates, which continue to have an effect on the
global competitiveness as well as on the performance of an organization. Despite the best efforts
being put in by the business schools’ to develop these non - technical abilities, there has been
relatively less focus to measure the skill outcomes and even less on the subsequent
implementation of it in the workplace. It can be said that it seemed as if the concept convinced
the stakeholders that the transfer of the abilities would take place naturally or automatically in
the graduates. In addition to this, the paper also unravels the notion of transfer of the skills and
recommends a framework of graduate employability which incorporates the procedure.
The quality of the context tried to incorporate all the factors that might exist for the
particular topic as not much research has been conducted in the past on this topic. Diversification