🔎Activity: Explore Your Employability Capital (Exploratory only)

One approach for reviewing your experience would be to look at how you have added to your Employability Capital.  Employability Capital refers to the collection of assets, skills, experiences, and qualities that an individual accumulates over the course of their career, which can be leveraged to advance professionally, achieve goals, and navigate through various career opportunities.

The Employability Capital framework proposed by Donald, Baruch, and Ashleigh (2023) is outlined below.

Cultural capital: the capacity to work within diverse work groups

Psychological capital: the ability to navigate individual and professional challenges -  learn to navigate hardship, bounce back from setbacks, build confidence, seek support, and maintain a positive outlook.

Social capital: the capability to manage relationships and social networks and the influential capacities within these networks

Human capital: the ambition of skills attainment, experiences and education to achieve career goals - acquire practical skills, develop technical knowledge, enhance teamwork and collaboration, explore leadership opportunities, and expand professional networks.

Scholastic capital: the capacity to leverage education for career growth and apply academic knowledge within the workplace

Personal identity capital: how one is perceived or judged based on their presentation of self - gain self-awareness, empathy, values alignment, resilience, and a sense of purpose and authenticity.

Health capital: accumulation of resources supporting physical and mental health

Market-value capital: understanding and facilitation of labour market and skill sets that drive the feeling of employability

Career-identity capital: understanding of and engagement in resources that support career readiness and employability

Economic capital: personal finances that support and enhance employability skills and experience