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- Uma aposta nas competências: aproximando as universidades às empresasPublication . Oliveira, Eva Dias de; Meireles, Ana
- Competências Transversais e Inovação Curricular no Ensino SuperiorPublication . Couto, A.; Oliveira, Eva Dias de
- O desenvolvimento das competências transversais nos estudantes do ensino superior - um estudo de casoPublication . Sá, Rita; Couto, Andreia; Dias, Valquíria; Oliveira, Eva Dias de; Rocha, Magda
- Employability through competencies and curricular innovation : a Portuguese accountPublication . Oliveira, Eva Dias de; Guimarães, Isabel de CastroMore than 50 percent of Portuguese unemployed university graduates are out of work for more than six months (OECD 2009), against the OECD average of 42 percent. This suggests that universities need to do more to improve graduates’ chances in the labour market, and in many ways, the Bologna reform provided European Union universities with an opportunity to tackle this issue. This paper describes the outcomes of the Bologna process, at the Faculty of Management and Economics (Catholic University of Portugal), which began in 2005. Undergraduate degrees’ length was shortened to 3 years and strategies were implemented to improve graduates’ employability. The main strategy was the competency-based approach of curricula development, and the creation of three new subjects dealing specifically with transferable skills: critical thinking, communication and teamwork, and systemic thinking.
- Employability through curriculum innovation and skills developmentPublication . Oliveira, Eva Dias de; Guimarães, Isabel de CastroOver 50% of Portuguese graduates are out of work for more than six months after leaving university, against the OECD average of 42%. This suggests that universities need to do more to improve graduates’ chances on the labour market and, in many ways, the Bologna reform provided European Union universities with an opportunity to tackle this issue. This paper describes how the Bologna process led to reform at the Catholic University of Portugal’s Faculty of Economics and Management, starting in 2005. Undergraduate studies were reduced from four to three years and strategies were implemented to improve graduates’ employability. The primary aspect of the reform was a competency-based approach to curricula development, along with the creation of three new courses dealing specifically with transferable skills: critical thinking, systemic thinking and communication and teamwork.
- Erasmus project: employability & entrepreneurship: tuning universities & entreprisesPublication . Oliveira, Eva Dias de
- Foreword of the "E-book International Conference"Publication . Oliveira, Eva Dias de; Guimarães, Isabel
- From normative to tacit knowledge: CVs analysis in personnel selectionPublication . Proença, Teresa; Oliveira, Eva Dias dePurpose – This study aims to investigate decision-making processes and to identify factors which influence managers in the selection of job applicants’ CVs and how these factors differ from the firm’s recruitment and selection policy. Design/methodology/approach – Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted among HR managers or similar staff members responsible for recruiting and selection in small, medium, and large-sized Portuguese firms. The interview comprised two parts: description of the selection policies that they used followed by a CV assessment game to understand decisions regarding the acceptance of a specific candidate. Findings – Interviewees’ narratives are similar, describing a step-by-step process based on the firm’s explicit policy and the model of a prediction of the job candidates’ future performance based on subjective criteria. Research limitations/implications – Possibly, the results described are related to the research methodology – more specifically the use of a fictional set of CVs where the decisions made do not have any consequences. At the same time, managers are more relaxed when playing the “CV game” and tend to adopt more genuine and usual behaviours. Practical implications – The paper calls for an integrative practice in CV analysis combining both the structured and rational dimension and the informal dimension (tacit knowledge, emotion and intuition). Originality/value – The paper stresses the paradoxical behaviour of practitioners. On the one hand, the “good” of rational procedures is part of their rhetoric; on the other hand, the use of emotion and intuition is revealed in their practices.
- Higher education students career concerns and the influence of their perception on attitudes and values skillsPublication . Rocha, Magda; Oliveira, Eva Dias de; Sadowska-Kowalska, Ewa
- O modelo integrado de desenvolvimento curricular e de coaching na promoção de competências transversais dos estudantesPublication . Oliveira, Eva Dias de; Sá, Rita