This book lifts the veneer of 'employability', to expose serious problems in the way that future workers are trying to manage their employability in the competition for tough-entry jobs in the knowledge economy; in how companies understand their human resource strategies and endeavor to recruit the managers and leaders of the future; and in the government failure to come to terms with the realities of the knowledge-based economy. The demand for high-skilled, high waged jobs, has been exaggerated. But it is something that governments want to believe because it distracts attention from thorny political issues around equality, opportunity, and redistribution. If it is assumed that there are plenty of good jobs for people with the appropriate credentials then the issue of who gets the best jobs loses its political sting. But if good jobs are in limited supply, how the competition for a livelihood is organized assumes paramount importance. This issue, is not lost on the middle classes, given that they depend on academic achievement to maintain, if not advance the occupational and social status of family members. The reality is that increasing congestion in the market for knowledge workers has led to growing middle class anxieties about how their off-spring are going to meet the rising threshold of employability that now has to be achieved to stand any realistic chance of finding interesting and rewarding employment. The result is a bare-knuckle struggle for access to elite schools, colleges, universities and jobs. This book examines whether employability policies are flawed because they ignore the realities of 'positional' conflict in the competition for a livelihood, especially as the rise of mass higher education has arguably done little to increase the employability of students for tough-entry jobs. It will be of interest to anyone looking to understand the way knowledge-based firms recruit and how this is influenced by government policy, be they Researchers, Academics and Students of Business and Management, Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management, Politics or Sociology; Human Resource Management or Recruitment Professionals; or job candidates.

The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy

Business & Money

Brown, Phillip

Hesketh, Anthony

Job Hunting & Careers

Oxford University Press

400,000 graduates 60,000 jobs you need to know everything you can to make one of them yours. Two experts have been behind the scenes and observed the graduate recruitment process in top companies. They've seen how some students work the system and get those jobs. Here's how - and how you can too. <ul>
<li>Competition for graduate jobs is fierce and getting even fiercer. More graduates. More debt. The need is strong. </li> <li>This is the first book to reveal how graduate recruitment really works and how some students work the system – and get the jobs. </li> <li>Highly topical – this is a big issue that isn’t going to go away - the on-going student loans debate and concerns over student debt mean that parents and students are primed to find out how they can secure their return on investment. </li> <li>Highly practical – tells the graduate what they need to know. </li> <li>The ONLY book to be independent and research based – this book tells you how it really is. </li> <li>Marketing support - national camapign to raise visibility to graduate audience. </li> <li>PR CAMPAIGN - A grade title for PR -full scale national PR campaign to reveal the authors research and the the truth that graduates are cracking the system. </li> <li>MARKETING CAMPAIGN: The book will be marketed on university campuses and through graduate recruitment networks and websites.</li> </ul>

How to Get the Best Graduate Job: Secret Insider Strategies for Success in the Graduate Job Market

WILLIAMS, David

BROWN, PHIL

Pearson Education Canada

Human resource departments increasingly use the statistical analysis of performance indicators as a way of demonstrating their contribution to organisational performance. In this book, Steve Fleetwood and Anthony Hesketh take issue with this 'scientific' approach by arguing that its preoccupation with statistical analysis is misplaced because it fails to take account of the complexities of organisations and the full range of issues that influence individual performance. The book is split into three parts. Part I deconstructs research into the alleged link between people and business performance by showing that it cannot explain the associations it alleges. Part II attributes these shortcomings to the importation of spurious 'scientific' methods, before going on to suggest more appropriate methods that might be used in future. Finally, Part III explores how HR executives and professionals understand their work and shows how a critical realist stance adds value to this understanding through enhanced explanation.

Explaining the Performance of Human Resource Management

Fleetwood, Steve

Human Resources

Cambridge University Press

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