Assessing employability capacities and career adaptability in a sample of human resource professionals

摘要: Orientation: Employers have come to recognise graduates’ employability capacities and their ability adapt new work demands as important human capital resources for sustaining a competitive business advantage. Research purpose: The study sought (1) ascertain whether significant relationship exists between set of graduate career adaptability (2) identify the variables that contributed most this relationship. Motivation study: Global markets technological advances are increasingly driving demand knowledge skills in wide variety jobs. Contemporary theory further emphasises across lifespan critical skill management agency. Despite apparent importance attached employees’ adaptability, there seems be general lack research investigating association these constructs. approach, design method: A cross-sectional, quantitative approach was followed. Descriptive statistics, Pearson product-moment correlations canonical correlation analysis were performed achieve objective study. participants ( N = 196) employed professional positions resource field predominantly early black people women. Main findings: results indicated positive multivariate relationships showed lifelong learning problem solving, decision-making interactive explaining participants’ confidence, curiosity control. Practical/managerial implications: suggests developing may strengthen adaptability. These shown explain active engagement strategies deemed sustained contemporary environment. Contributions: offered empirical evidence support theoretical views on self-regulatory underpinning individuals’ how influenced by capacities.