Absolwenci szkół wyższych na rynku pracy w warunkach kryzysu

Abstract

The transition of university graduates from the stage of education to employment seems to be one of the most complex and difficult processes taking place on the labour market. Economic transformation resulted in the tendency to have a correlation between the level of education and ones position on the labour market. This formed the strong belief in society that higher education graduating can guarantee profitable employment relevant to ones level of education. Meanwhile in Poland and in other European countries there has been a constant increase in the percentage of unemployed people with higher education The purpose of the research firstly is to present the dynamic of the number and specialisation of higher education graduates between the years 1990–2010; secondly to show the consequences of these changes regarding the procurement of jobs by the graduates and thirdly attempts at pin-pointing the possibilities of optimising their successful transition into the labour market. The conducted research has proven that the situation of higher education graduates on the labour market in Poland is steadily worsening. The afore-mentioned ways of optimising their situation is conducting qualitative and quantitative surveys of the transition process and implementing the results of these surveys into the conception of an entrepreneurial university.