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Employability and Employers: the missing piece of the jigsaw

Tamkin P, Hillage J

Report 361, Institute for Employment Studies, November 1999
ISBN: 978-1-85184-290-2, pp. xiv+58
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Employers talk a lot about employability, but relatively few go far beyond exhortation. Where they do, policies tend to focus on a few staff groups and not address the workforce as a whole, smack of opportunism or necessity rather than deliberate strategy, and re-package existing career or development practices, rather than addressing the emerging needs of their workforce.

This report pins down the concept of employability into a workable definition. Based on a review of approaches adopted in a series of case study organisations, it develops an emerging framework of appropriate employer responses, and provides a checklist to help employers develop comprehensive policy and practice.

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