The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy
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...The evidence clearly shows that employers play an active role in reinforcing patterns of labour market inequality amongst different graduates (Harvey, Moon and Geall 1997; Brown and Hesketh 2004)....
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...The task facing students is that of gaining a positional advantage in a competitive labour market where employers are placing increasingly less emphasis on academic credentials (Brown and Hesketh 2004)....
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...They may be further mirroring wider cultural tensions among the expanding middle class who are finding it increasingly difficult to subscribe to traditional notions of merit as a way of winning positional advantage (Ball 2002; Brown and Hesketh 2004)....
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...In their study of graduate recruitment, Brown and Hesketh (2004) have shown the declining importance employers are attaching to academic credentials, and the increasing importance instead given to personal attributes and skills....
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...The evidence suggests that higher education students are using the discourse of experience or, what Brown and Hesketh (2004) term the ‘economy of experience’, in understanding their future employability and labour market outcomes....
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...These have included: going on to higher levels of study (by enrolling for a master’s degree, or some other form of postgraduate qualification); taking up internships, work experience and/or relevant extra-curricular activities; and gaining entry to high status universities (Brooks and Everett, 2009; Brown and Hesketh, 2004; Reay et al., 2005)....
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...English provides students with a ‘positional advantage’ in their home labour market (Brown and Hesketh, 2004)....
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...ing their ‘positional advantage’ within a saturated graduate labour market (Arthur and Rousseau, 1996; Brown and Hesketh, 2004; Brown and Lauder, 2006) through the acquisition of international credentials....
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...A common theme within the academic literature on higher education in many countries of the world is the congested nature of the graduate labour market and the increasingly protracted character of transitions from university into work (Brown and Hesketh, 2004)....
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..., 2005); engaging in a range of work-relevant extra-curricular activities (Brooks, 2007b; Brown and Hesketh, 2004); and, on completion of a first degree, pursuing postgraduate qualifications (Brooks and Everett, 2009)....
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...One exception is the research by Brown and Hesketh (2004) in which 60 graduate applicants to fast-track management programmes were interviewed....
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...…and to the ways in which opportunities for graduates are framed, for example by gender, ‘race’ and social class (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1964, 1970; Connor et al., 1997, 2003, 2004; Elias et al., 1999; Morley, 2001; Blasko et al., 2002; Brown, 2003; Brown & Hesketh, 2004; Smetherham, 2004)....
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...As noted by Brown and Hesketh (2004) amongst others, the recurrent use of the ‘employability’ word is not only a shift of terminology, but also a shift of discourses drawing on different explanatory frameworks of employment and different constructions of the worker....
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...(1995, p. 112) Purcell and colleagues’ findings suggest that for some employers, a degree may now not represent anything more than a ‘threshold to requirement in addition to other evidence of suitability’ (2002, p. 10), a trend also noted by Brown and Hesketh (2004)....
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...…groups that face additional difficulties in terms of employment-related outcomes to HE (Elias et al., 1999; Blasko, 2002; Purcell, 2002) and employers continue to target their graduate recruitment activities at old, elite institutions (AGR, 1999; Leathwood & Hutchings, 2003; Brown & Hesketh, 2004)....
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...In a later study, Brown and Hesketh (2004) draw on this previous work, using pos-...
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