What is Graduateness

The author adopts a racialized lens to a generalizable framework of graduate recruitment and selection to explore race and employability. The generalizable framework highlights the inter-relatedness of work-readiness, graduate identity, and signaling at the individual (miso) level, with Tracey Yosso's conceptualization of community cultural wealth and Julia Evett's framing of ‘organizational professionalism at the institutional (meso) level. The adoption of a racialized lens to the generalizable framework enables the author to explain how structural and systemic racism within graduate and recruitment processes operates. Racism in graduate recruitment and selection is evidenced by longstanding inequitable outcomes for racially minoritized graduates. The chapter concludes with recommendations to enable colleagues to engage in compassionate action to mitigate racism in graduate recruitment and selection praxis and recognize institutional responsibility for change.