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Employability is an increasingly important issue in higher education settings, and there is a strong case for a mapping of information skills and competencies against the expectations of employers. This paper addresses this need and provides an indication of how such information know-how, or information literacy, can make a valuable contribution to the employability and future careers of students as they move from higher education to employment.
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Goldstein, S. (2016). Information Literacy and Graduate Employability. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society. ECIL 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_9
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