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Graduate Employability: An Update on Behaviours Prized by Employers

By: David Biggs  
Open Access
|May 2023

Abstract

There is a strong need for MSc occupational psychology courses to produce employable graduates. However, many universities and students want to know what are the skills and behaviours needed by employers? To answer this question, two job analyses were completed in a multinational management consultancy and in a boutique firm specialising in assessment and development centres (Biggs, 2010). This research highlighted eight competencies that could be developed by students making them more employable. Many students have used this competency framework, not only in our successful evening-based MSc in Occupational Psychology at Gloucestershire, but at other universities and on other degrees. As such there was a call by others to ensure that the research completed over a decade ago still had currency today and that the eight consultancy competency framework was still valid. This paper sets out an update to that original research demonstrating that the framework is still relevant today.

Language: English
Page range: 58 - 61
Published on: May 24, 2023
Published by: FMR Research Ltd
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2023 David Biggs, published by FMR Research Ltd
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