Planning to work for free: Building the graduate employability of planners through unpaid work
| Autor: | Paula McDonald, Deanna Grant-Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Practicum Context (language use) Employability work integrated learning planning profession Creative industries 160506 Education Policy Internship 0502 economics and business Pedagogy unpaid work Sociology Life-span and Life-course Studies business.industry 05 social sciences 050301 education General Social Sciences Public relations placement 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified planning education HERN Work (electrical) practicum Unpaid work internship business 0503 education Discipline 150306 Industrial Relations 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Youth Studies |
| ISSN: | 2381-3652 |
| Popis: | In the context of an increasingly precarious and competitive graduate labour market, exposure to pre-graduation professional work experience is becoming an increasingly critical feature of graduate employability. Outside the creative professions the contours of this shift have received comparatively little empirical attention. This study provides evidence of increasing participation in unpaid work beyond the creative industries where it is well established as a common practice. This study examines the complex patterns of opportunities and challenges that are created for and by Australian urban planning students in gaining relevant exposure to professional work, with a particular emphasis on participation in unpaid work experience. Through the lens of employability and the voices of early career professionals, this study explores the complexity of decisions to engage in unpaid work and identifies the potential personal and professional implications of these decisions. Focussing on the ways decisions around unpaid work are shaped by a range of factors including labour market conditions and disciplinary norms the findings yield new knowledge of how unpaid work is practised and shaped as a principal means through which employment-related advantage and enhanced employability in education to employment transitions is sought by participants and the potential implications of this. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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