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Digital career competencies: A co-created scale for the digital employability competencies we've overlooked
Industry and Higher Education, Vol.38(5), pp.411-422
2024
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Abstract
The digital economy with flexible work contexts requires graduates to enter the workplace with digital skills. While studies have examined digital literacy and skills within domains, attending to knowledge, workplace, business and digital skills, these narrow definitions overlook the importance of digital career competencies for lifelong career management. This paper reports on measures of digital career competencies (DCC) and how the dimensionality of these measures might enable universities, students, and other stakeholders to ascertain how these competencies develop. Using a pragmatic, co-created, three-study design, initial dimensions and a pool of measurement items were developed qualitatively, involving responses from 22 alumni. These items and their dimension reliability were then tested with n = 202 students, and further evaluated using a second sample of n = 156 students. The results demonstrate that DCC can be assessed using three dimensions: digital connectedness, career management, and crowdworking. The developed 8-item, three-dimension scale exhibited sound reliability and validity. The novel co-design method for measure development, and the research findings, provide theoretical and practical contributions to emerging empirical research on DCC. These measures provide a parsimonious base for assessing DCC and facilitating the development of these competencies in higher education.
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- Title
- Digital career competencies: A co-created scale for the digital employability competencies we've overlooked
- Authors
- Margarietha J de Villiers Scheepers (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesRory Mulcahy (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesDavid Fleischman (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesPeter English (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesJacqueline Burgess (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Engage Research LabGail Crimmins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Publication details
- Industry and Higher Education, Vol.38(5), pp.411-422
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1177/09504222241231265
- ISSN
- 2043-6858; 0950-4222
- Copyright note
- © The Author(s) 2024. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
- Grant note
- The Centre for Support and Advancement of Learning and Teaching (C-SALT) at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia (Graduate Employability Commissioned L&T Grant)
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Engage Research Lab
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99994398702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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