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Am I Fit for Tomorrow’s Labor Market? The Effect of Graduates’ Skills Development during Higher Education for the 21st Century’s Labor Market

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Habets, Omar, Stoffers, Jol, Heijden, Beatrice Van der, Peters, Pascale·2020·Sustainability
DOI 10.3390/su12187746
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This study contributes to the employability skills debate by investigating how students’ self-perceived 21st century skills relate to the self-perceived fit between their higher education curriculum and their future labor market for a sustainable entry to this labor market. Survey data from 4670 fourth-year students over a period of four years were analyzed. Furthermore, out of this group, 83 students were monitored longitudinally over their full educational student careers. Results showed a positive relationship between students’ self-perceived 21st century skills and their self-perceived “education-future labor market fit”. Among more recent cohorts, a significant improvement in their self-perceived 21st century skills was found. Overall, this study indicated that in order to deliver “employable” graduates, students need to be thoroughly trained in 21st century skills, and their development should be retained and expanded. This is one of the few studies that uses a vast amount of both cross-sectional and longitudinal data on skills and labor market perspectives among new graduates.

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Authors
Habets, O., Stoffers, J., Heijden, B. V. D., & Peters, P.
Venue
Sustainability
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2020-09-18
Volume
12
Issue
18
Pages
7746
ISSN
2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/su12187746
OpenAlex
W3087233101
Cited by
319
References
55
FWCI
111.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
gold
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)

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Habets, O., Stoffers, J., Heijden, B. V. D., & Peters, P. (2020). Am I Fit for Tomorrow’s Labor Market? The Effect of Graduates’ Skills Development during Higher Education for the 21st Century’s Labor Market. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12187746

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