Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context

1. Introduction: Rethinking graduate employability in context. - PART 1. - 2. Graduate employability and its basis in possessive individualism. - 3. Relative employability: Applying the insights of positional competition and conflict theories within the current higher education landscape. - 4. Boosting employability through fostering an entrepreneurial mindset: Critical analysis of employability and entrepreneurship in EU policy documents. - 5. The affective life of neoliberal employability discourse. - 6. Grounding employability in both agency and collective identity: an emancipatory agenda for higher education. - PART 2 - 7. Are graduates working in graduate occupations? Insights from the Portuguese labour market. - 8. Institutionalisation of employability capitals in employment markets. - 9. The vocational drift of French higher education and the employability of graduates. - 10. Re-framing employability as a problem of perceived opportunities: The case of internships in a U. S. college using the Student Perceptions of Employment Opportunities (SPEO) framework. - 11. Working-Class Adult Students: Negotiating Inequalities in the Graduate Labour Market. - PART 3 - 12. Health as employability potential in business graduates' career imagination. - 13. Finnish university students constructing their ideal employable identities a case study of Top Performing Experts. - 14. Strategies undertaken by international graduates to negotiate employability. - 15. Employability as self-branding in job search games: A case of Finnish business graduates. - 16. Negotiating (employable) graduate identity Small story approach in qualitative follow-up research. - 17. Epilogue.