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Universities are still positioned to produce graduates who can contribute to society and the economy through work. Students are similarly responsible for developing the knowledge and capabilities that will meet employer expectations and assure a successful career. This development process often involves students engaging in reflective practice. This paper reports on the efficacy of a structured, written reflective process implemented across an Australian research-intensive institution to support students to learn from experiences to develop their employability. Our study found value in the use of a formalised, stepwise approach to reflective thinking that helps students make and express meaning from learning opportunities. The findings suggest, however, that attempting to shoehorn the untidy business of reflective thinking into a standard linear approach does present some challenges. Despite these challenges, our examination of a sample of reflections using our process showed evidence of reflective thought. We found alignment with the experiential learning theories that framed the creation of our reflective process in the students’ expressions of their meaning-making endeavours. Our findings strengthen our advocacy of an anchor for reflective thought in a personally meaningful experience and the use of prompts around effect and action to guide students learning.  \nKeywords  \nemployability learning, reflection,  \nreflective thought, reflective writing, meaningmaking, experiences,  \nexperiential learning  \nIntroduction  \nGraduate employability (GE) is an evolutionary concept, founded in human capital theory, that now shapes the relationship between higher education and the economy (Tomlinson, 2017a) . The success of GE lies largely in a student’s capacity to develop into an employable (or work-ready) graduate who can obtain post-graduation employment and sustain a career in their chosen field.  \nFoundational work by Mantz Yorke (2006) framed GE as the development of knowledge, capabilities and personal attributes that support graduates to gain and maintain employment. Yorke’s early framing of GE placed graduates and their personal qualities and professional capabilities as the  \nRichards & Reid (2025) . Reflections on reflection: Supporting employability learning in the higher education context. Journal of  \nTeaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 16(1), 75–92. 75  \ninstruments of success in the labour market and of their contribution to society and the economy through work (Moreau & Leathwood, 2006) . Universities seem to accept their role, and indeed moral duty, to assist students to develop their employability (Artess et al., 2017) . Institutional strategic plans have been found to share the aim of advancing GE within the context of global neoliberalism that posits education as a ‘self-investment in one’s own capital position’ (Baron & McCormack, 2024, p. 258) . This positioning suggests an interdependency between Career Development Learning (CDL) and employability (Wardle & Geronikos, 2024), where students must become capable of doing their jobs and navigating their career journeys (Buchanan et al., 2022) .  \nThe evolution of employability has seen the develo","cbCaivd9ylZlKswB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivd9ylZlKswB","pdf",437545,18,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Reflective practice in the GE setting","[{\"question\":\"What challenges does the paper identify with using a linear model for reflective thinking?\",\"answer\":\"It finds that forcing the “untidy” nature of reflective thinking into a standard linear approach can create challenges, even though evidence of reflective thought is still present.\"}]","Reflections on reflection - Supporting employability learning in the higher education context | PDF",1792065009,45]