TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning basic employability competence: a challenge for the active labour insertion of adolescents in residential care in their transition to adulthood
AU - Arnau-Sabatés, Laura
AU - Marzo, Maria Teresa
AU - Jariot, Mercè
AU - Sala-Roca, Josefina
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - The teaching of basic employability competence from a very early age is of preventive value in the transition of young people in residential care to adulthood. The present research relates employability competence (finding and holding down a job and gaining promotion in the labour market) with positive career outcomes and employment opportunities. In this study, conceptual methods for understanding employability are analysed and some existing international studies of employability skills are reviewed, although all of these are deemed partial approaches to the needs of children and young people in residential care. Our proposal, the IARS (Infancia y Adolescencia en Riesgo Social [Children and Young People at Social Risk]) Employability Competence Framework, developed by means of a collaborative and integrated approach with experts, provides a complete picture of how employability competences are important for preparing young people in residential care not only for active labour insertion but also in terms of their comprehensive development. A selection of a cluster of eight employability competences (self-organisation, decision-making and problem-solving, teamwork, communication, perseverance, professional project development, flexibility and responsibility) and their components are presented, as well as its educational implications within children's homes. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.
AB - The teaching of basic employability competence from a very early age is of preventive value in the transition of young people in residential care to adulthood. The present research relates employability competence (finding and holding down a job and gaining promotion in the labour market) with positive career outcomes and employment opportunities. In this study, conceptual methods for understanding employability are analysed and some existing international studies of employability skills are reviewed, although all of these are deemed partial approaches to the needs of children and young people in residential care. Our proposal, the IARS (Infancia y Adolescencia en Riesgo Social [Children and Young People at Social Risk]) Employability Competence Framework, developed by means of a collaborative and integrated approach with experts, provides a complete picture of how employability competences are important for preparing young people in residential care not only for active labour insertion but also in terms of their comprehensive development. A selection of a cluster of eight employability competences (self-organisation, decision-making and problem-solving, teamwork, communication, perseverance, professional project development, flexibility and responsibility) and their components are presented, as well as its educational implications within children's homes. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.
KW - active labour insertion
KW - employability competence
KW - employment outcomes
KW - transition to adulthood
KW - young people in residential care
UR - https://ddd.uab.cat/record/132029
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2013.802227
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2013.802227
M3 - Article
VL - 17
SP - 252
EP - 265
JO - European Journal of Social Work
JF - European Journal of Social Work
SN - 1369-1457
ER -