How can you use your knowledge of employability to increase your chance of getting hired?
What will be an ideal response?
Examples should include recent research on employability suggests that the
degree to which you are perceived as employable may determine whether or not you
are hired for a position. Employability is defined as “an attribution employers make
about the probability that job candidates will make positive contributions to their
organizations.” There are three important aspects to an applicant’s profile that affect
employers’ perceptions and subsequent attributions about employability as shown in
Figure 5.5. What matters to employers is proposed to be the candidate’s social or
interpersonal compatibility, which leads to the perception that the candidate will have
positive interactions with others on a daily basis. Next, abilities, expertise, self-efficacy,
and know-how lead to the perception that the candidate is able to do the job. Finally,
ambition, work ethic, and drive lead to the perception that the candidate is willing to
work hard. These factors combine to form the employer’s attribution of employability
and therefore relates to whether or not the applicant gets a job offer.
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