Author(s)

Dan Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Guangzhou Health Science College, Guangzhou, China

Corresponding Author

Dan Chen

ABSTRACT

This study examines the current state of employability of medical and healthcare senior students, and as a starting point, investigating and analysing the relationship between achievement motivation and employability of medical and Healthcare Higher vocational college education students. The methodology of the study was to take students of a medical and healthcare higher vocational college education institution in Guangzhou City as the research object, using the self-assessment of employability questionnaire and achievement motivation scale for college students. Surveys and studies have found that, the employability of the medical and healthcare higher vocational college is at a high level. Aspects of development in the dimensions, Professional capacity, Capacity for self-improvement, Generic capacity, Social integration capacity, Career planning skills shows an order of magnitude from largest to smallest. The total score and dimensions of employability of medical and healthcare higher vocational college students are significantly positively correlated with the total score of achievement motivation, pursuit of success, and significantly negatively correlated with avoidance of failure. This study provides a basis and reference for locating the important influencing factors of the employability of medical and health vocational college students, and medical and health vocational colleges and universities should strengthen the career planning and employment guidance for students and pay attention to the achievement motivation of the students while cultivating professional skills in order to improve the employability of medical and health higher vocational students and alleviate their employment pressure to a certain extent.

KEYWORDS

Achievement motivation; Employment ability; Higher vocational college students

CITE THIS PAPER

Dan Chen, Study on the Achievement Motivation and Employability of Higher Vocational College Students—An Empirical Analysis Based on a Medical and Healthcare Vocational College in Guangzhou. Adult and Higher Education (2023) Vol. 5: 123-126. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2023.051519.

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