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Constructing Professionals’ Employ-Abilities: Conditions for Accomplishment

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Graduate Attributes, Learning and Employability

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  1. David Beckett
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  2. Dianne Mulcahy
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  1. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Paul Hager

  2. Edith Co an University, w Perth, Australia

    Susan Holland

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Beckett, D., Mulcahy, D. (2006). Constructing Professionals’ Employ-Abilities: Conditions for Accomplishment. In: Hager, P., Holland, S. (eds) Graduate Attributes, Learning and Employability. Lifelong Learning Book Series, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5342-8_13

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