Self-perceived employability: Construction and initial validation of a scale for university students

2008/01/29 by Andrew Rothwell, Ian Herbert, Frances Rothwell · 508 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Engineering · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Bachelor #Developmental psychology #Discriminant validity #Economics #Employability #Engineering Education and Curriculum Development #Higher Education and Employability #Human Resource and Talent Management #Internal consistency #Pedagogy #Perception #Political science #Position (finance) #Psychology #Psychometrics #Scale (ratio) #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2007.12.001

published in Journal of Vocational Behavior 73(1), 1-12 (Elsevier BV)

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