TY - JOUR
T1 - Giving Miss Marple a makeover
T2 - graduate recruitment, systems failure and the Scottish voluntary sector
AU - Hurrell, Scott A.
AU - Warhurst, Chris
AU - Nickson, Dennis
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - The voluntary sector in Scotland, as across the globe, is becoming increasingly business like. Resultantly, there is an increasing demand for graduates to work in business and support functions. In Scotland, however, despite an oversupply of graduates in the labor market, the voluntary sector reports skills shortages for graduate-level positions; a leadership deficit was also reported in countries such as the United States. Through exploratory, mainly qualitative, case study and stakeholder research, this article proposes that one reason for this mismatch between the supply of and demand for graduates is a systems failure within the sector. Many graduates and university students remain unaware of potentially suitable paid job opportunities, in part because of the sector's voluntary label. To rectify this systems failure, thought needs to be given to the sector's nomenclature and the manner in which voluntary sector organizations attract graduate recruits, for example, through levering value congruence in potential recruits.
AB - The voluntary sector in Scotland, as across the globe, is becoming increasingly business like. Resultantly, there is an increasing demand for graduates to work in business and support functions. In Scotland, however, despite an oversupply of graduates in the labor market, the voluntary sector reports skills shortages for graduate-level positions; a leadership deficit was also reported in countries such as the United States. Through exploratory, mainly qualitative, case study and stakeholder research, this article proposes that one reason for this mismatch between the supply of and demand for graduates is a systems failure within the sector. Many graduates and university students remain unaware of potentially suitable paid job opportunities, in part because of the sector's voluntary label. To rectify this systems failure, thought needs to be given to the sector's nomenclature and the manner in which voluntary sector organizations attract graduate recruits, for example, through levering value congruence in potential recruits.
KW - graduate recruitment
KW - Scotland
KW - voluntary sector
KW - human resource management
KW - value congruence
KW - non-profit sector
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79952953754&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0899764009344100
DO - 10.1177/0899764009344100
M3 - Article
VL - 40
SP - 336
EP - 355
JO - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
JF - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
SN - 0899-7640
IS - 2
ER -