Are Graduates Preferred to Those Completing Initial Vocational Education and Training? Case Studies on Company Recruitment Strategies in Germany, England and Switzerland

Autor/inn/en	Hippach-Schneider, Ute; Weigel, Tanja; Brown, Alan; Gonon, Philipp
Titel	Are Graduates Preferred to Those Completing Initial Vocational Education and Training? Case Studies on Company Recruitment Strategies in Germany, England and Switzerland
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 65 (2013) 1, S.1-17 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-6820
DOI	10.1080/13636820.2012.727856
Schlagwörter	Vocational Education; Bachelors Degrees; Program Descriptions; Comparative Education; Labor Force Development; Competition; Employment Opportunities; Case Studies; Interviews; Recruitment; Human Resources; Graduates; Educational Attitudes; Corporations; Employers; Foreign Countries; Germany; Switzerland; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Arbeitskräftebestand; Wettkampf; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Humankapital; Graduate; Absolvent; Absolventin; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Unternehmen; Ausland; Deutschland; Schweiz
Abstract	The German and Swiss economies value skilled work highly and initial vocational education and training (IVET) has been the predominant traditional pathway into such work. However, concerns about a more "knowledge-based society" and the "academic shift in the labour market" are starting to undermine the status associated with those who complete IVET pathways and these former trainees also face competition from graduates from the relatively new Bachelor programmes in Switzerland and Germany. An international project investigated whether these developments pose a threat to developed IVET systems and whether companies are changing their recruitment strategies and how they rate the status of IVET. The findings from Germany and Switzerland were compared with the situation in England, the home of two-phase HE structures along with a very different tradition of vocational training. The findings from individual case studies in England, Germany and Switzerland are presented here, with the focus on the expectations of companies towards applicants with experience of IVET or Bachelor's degrees. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10