Student-community engagement and graduate employability

This article is about the effects of student-community engagement on the employment prospects of graduates. Its aims are to examine critically the reasons for the belief that student-community engagement enhances graduate employability and to assess the strength of the case for that belief. The article seeks to contribute to the development of a theory of how student-community engagement affects graduate employability. It offers a ‘knowledge, skills and attitudes’ framework for student-community engagement that can be related to graduate employability. It concludes with lessons to enhance the contribution of student-community engagement to graduate employability.