Publications

Differentiating grapes from wine: The education-to-work transition

There is a growing interest in connecting the literature on graduate employability, career development, and worker employability. …
William E. Donald, Michael Healy
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Finding the joy in complexity: Privileging the practitioner voice in graduate employability

In this special issue, we are proud to share the unvarnished stories, practical strategies, and insightful provocations from the people …
Lauren Hansen, Bonnie Dean, Michael Healy, Deanne Gannaway, Barbie Panther, Jamie Mustard
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Dialogical self: co-investigator in career self-research

Human beings have the extraordinary ability to talk with one another. They listen, talk, paraphrase, sympathise, and argue. Some people …
Peter McIlveen, Michael Healy
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Careers and employability learning: Pedagogical principles for higher education

Increasingly, universities prioritise employability as a primary purpose of personal and public investment into higher education and …
Michael Healy
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LinkedIn as a pedagogical tool for careers and employability learning: a scoping review of the literature

Purpose – Professional networks are conduits for career insight, vehicles for career exploration and incubators of professional …
Michael Healy, Sandra Cochrane, Paula Grant, Marita Basson
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How emotions influence motivation and behaviour in career development learning

This Insights Paper offers a framework to help understand the emotions at play in career development learning. It describes how …
Michael Healy
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About university career services’ interaction with edtech

Higher education institution career and employability services are evolving from bounded, standalone services toward being members of …
Elizabeth Knight, Tom Staunton, Michael Healy
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Graduate employability as a professional proto-jurisdiction in higher education

Much research into how universities seek to support their students’ graduate employability has focused on academic strategies such as …
Michael Healy, Jason L. Brown, Candy Ho
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Microcredential learners need quality careers and employability support

Providers, industry, and governments have embraced microcredentialing as a solution to the volatility and velocity of changes in labour …
Michael Healy
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Career Assessment

Career assessment is inherent in the professional practices of career development. Career assessment has its scientific, technical, and …
Peter McIlveen, Harsha N. Perera, Jason L. Brown, Michael Healy, Sara Hammer
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Mapping graduate employability and career development in higher education research: A citation network analysis

Greater attention than ever is being placed on how universities enable their graduates to achieve their career goals as a key return on …
Michael Healy, Sara Hammer, Peter McIlveen
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Connectedness learning in the life sciences: LinkedIn as an assessment task for employability and career exploration

You’ve been doing employability the wrong way would be the click-bait headline if this chapter were to be published in an online …
Jason L. Brown, Michael Healy, Louise Lexis, Brianna Julien
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Career services in Australian higher education: Aligning the training of practitioners to contemporary practice

As university graduates face increasingly changing and challenging labour markets and work environments, universities are prioritising …
Jason L. Brown, Michael Healy, Tessa McCredie, Peter McIlveen
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My career chapter: The dialogical self as author and editor of a career autobiography

My Career Chapter: a Dialogical Autobiography (MCC; McIlveen; 2015) is a qualitative career assessment and counselling tool based on …
Michael Healy, Peter McIlveen
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Use of my career chapter to engage students in reflexive dialogue

Higher education students provide many reasons for their taking a particular degree. These typically relate to their current vocational …
Michael Healy, Peter McIlveen, Sara Hammer
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