employability
- noun
- /ɪmˌplɔɪəˈbɪləti/
- Developing strong communication skills is essential for enhancing your employability in today's job market.
- employability skills
- enhance employability
- good employability
Examples
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Vocational training should reflect the current job market, with an emphasis on employability and life skills.
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Fieldwork experience also provides professional development and skills that increase a student's employability (Solem, Cheung, and Schlemper 2008).
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Very, very like work focused, so focusing on employability skills and the world of work after school or college.
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The benefits of this strategy, in terms of students' school success, employability, and contributions to society, would be invaluable.
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Ideally, the development of good employability skills should begin at home and often is the result of effective parenting.
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Aside from the emphasis that employers place on employability skills, there is another reason why schools should teach such skills.
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The teaching of employability skills belongs in the school curriculum and is essential to our nation's future.
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The personal characteristics and attitudes desired by employers are termed employability skills in this article.
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UK workers believe a healthy smile improves their employability and promotion prospects, according to research by Bupa.
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Commitment to learning assumes a payoff in terms of future employability.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
Being suitable for a particular purpose or role
How suitable or available a person is to be hired for work
Antonyms
How Employable
Surface Forms
Morphology
employability = employable (transparent) = employ + able + ity
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ity' to the adjective 'employable', which itself is transparently 'employ' + '-able'.
Etymology
Employability is made from employ and the ending -ability. Employ means 'to give someone work' or 'to use' and you can see the same root in employee and employer. So employability is the 'ability to be employed', meaning the skills and qualities that help you get and keep a job.