All about Employability

The term employability has become a common term amongst educators, researchers, and employers. But what does it mean? Employability refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to look for work and continue successfully in a career. According to insights from the ISB, employability is most important for graduates and students. Whether it is for their study decision or the recommendation of the institution, employability is the key!

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Gamification & Employability

Read our articles about Gamification in:

Vista Magazine:
Gamification and (the quest for) global employability.

Employability webinars

Read the CareerProfessor magazine

Employability is receiving increasing attention in the world of Higher Education. And for a good reason! Students call for it, employers look for it and Higher Education Institutions are expected to provide it. But the quest for employability can become tricky and expectations seem to vary.

This magazine focuses on exploring the concept of employability within Higher Education to identify potential ‘hitches’ and solutions and open the way for a common approach to employability. Throughout the magazine, we will find out more about (mis)match in expectations when it comes to employability, research, resources, and the concept of employability through the lens of gamification.

Interested in knowing more? Contact us for a hard copy!

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CareerProfessor webinar

What will get you hired in the global job market? This is a question that many students and graduates face. This video explains how CareerProfessor.works help prepare students and graduates on how to understand, reflect on, and implement their experiences into necessary skills for the global job market.

Employer Insights

Where knowledge turns into career success: Research data about employability from the employers' perspective.

Check out our latest posters!

  • EAIE 2025

    This poster presents findings from the Erasmus+ project DETAS, analysing responses from 265 companies hosting interns or trainees. The data sheds light on challenges faced and opportunities identified by employers in hosting interns and trainees.

  • NAFSA 2025

    This poster is about findings from an Erasmus+ project DETAS, analysing responses from 265 companies, shedding light on challenges and opportunities identified by employers when hosting interns, aiming to improve future study-abroad internships.

  • EAIE 2024

    This poster delves into outcomes generated in collaboration with employers, a stakeholder group often overlooked in discussions related to employability.

  • NAFSA 2024

    This poster is about a GSO Innovation Fund project, the Canadian equivalent of Erasmus+, which seeks to shed light on a pivotal question: Do employers value international mobility and what’s the effect on the student’s career opportunities?

List of other poster presentations

CareerProfessor News Board

  • CareerProfessor.works was featured in the ICEF Podcast ”The growing importance of career opportunities for international students”. In this podcast, there was a discussion on how a greater emphasis on career planning is influencing student decision making this year. Want to know more? Have a listen here.

  • CareerProfessor.works was mentioned in the ”Reflections on Employability” blog of i-graduate. Research shows that there is a substantial gap between education and the global world of work which higher insitutions have to close. And one of the solutions to closing this gap is in the digital career platform, created by CareerProfessor.works.

  • For the EAIE conference our poster was themed: “How to make bold changes to boost employability”. Nannette Ripmeester discussed the changes that have arisen in supporting student’s employability amidst the pandemic and focused on how to digitally train employability skills with the necessary tools and also showed how institutions can use tech to help students unpack what they have to offer to employers. Click here for the full poster.

  • For the NAFSA conference the central focus of our poster highlighted “The End of Internationalization?”and how to prepare students for the global world of work. To view the full version of the poster presentation click here.

  • On June 3rd during the annual NAFSA conference, CareerProfessor founder, Nannette Ripmeester, will be discussing digital solutions about internalization and the actions taken by HEIs across Europe and North America to support their student’s employability amidst the pandemic. NAFSA: Association of International Educators is the world’s largest association dedicated to international education and exchange.

  • Kellie McMullin from NSCC spoke at the CiCan Conference about how they’ve used CareerProfessor and its gamification model to encourage students to look at the employability benefits of their study abroad experience, allowing mobile student to see the benefits of both virtual and in-person study abroad experiences and providing them the ability to articulate their learning to future employers.

  • For the Erasmus Skills Project, two videos were recorded, which discuss unpacking your exchange experience. In the first video,  CareerProfessor is mentioned as a useful tool for students to get more insight into the global labour market, fueled by automation, diversity and the changing world of work. Employability skills such as adaptability, pro-active thinking, problem-solving skills are highlighted in the video and correlated to the development of these skills via CareerProfessor platform.

  • In the second video, the importance of cultural differences is stressed. Employers nowadays are more intrigued by the experiences of their job applicants and how they believe they can use these in the world of work than ‘just’ a list with skills. The CareerProfessor game does exactly that:  helping students develop a strategic toolkit for finding jobs on the global labour market by enhancing their employability skills.

  • The power of an elevator pitch! How do you get a person’s attention when you only have 30 seconds? Read the article written by Nannette Ripmeester and Sevi Christoforou on the XPat Journal magazine.

  • The new magazine of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore zooms in on employability helping us to understand how we can support students with skills for the #global world of work. Proud to have our platform CareerProfessor works being mentioned! Have a look at the article here.

  • CareerProfessor is featured in the Actors & Institutions section of the Higher Education Worldwide newsletter. Don’t forget to also have a look at the article about the skill sets graduates need in the future workplace by Nannette Ripmeester, which can be found in the new issue of Internationalisation of Higher Education.