Microcredential learners need quality careers and employability support: Provocation

Michael Healy

doi:10.21153/jtlge2021vol12no1art1071

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Michael Healy University of Southern Queensland, Australia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9572-2182

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https://doi.org/10.21153/jtlge2021vol12no1art1071

Abstract

Providers, industry, and governments have embraced microcredentialing as a solution to the volatility and velocity of changes in labour markets, workplace competencies, and the needs of the 21st century lifelong learner (Oliver, 2019). However, microcredentials do not, in and of themselves, guarantee career or employment success. Seeking a microcredential is one adaptive career behaviour that people might enact in pursuit of their career goals (Lent & Brown, 2013). Similarly, holding a microcredential is one form of employability capital that people might highlight when seeking employment (Tomlinson & Anderson, 2020).

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Author Biography

Michael Healy, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

School of Education, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

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