Readiness of the University Economic Programs’ Graduates for the First Employment

Abstract

The article shows an analysis of the readiness of regional universities’ graduates of economic programs for the first employment. An overview of scientific publications on the problems of the first employment has shown the relevance of the issue not only for Russian regions, but also for the economies of other countries. Theoretical approaches to understanding the provision of conditions for the success of the first employment and increasing the readiness of economic programs’ graduates for the transition from educational to work were tested at the empirical level. The survey was conducted among graduates of the Faculty of Economics of Stavropol State Agrarian University. The respondents answered the questions of the questionnaire in electronic format (Google Form). A total of 846 people took part in the survey; they have successfully completed their studies in the last 3 years in the direction of training “Economics”. The survey database was processed in the SPSS Statistics Software (version 23). With a general population of 1487 people, a confidence interval of 95% and a random sample of 846 people, the error in the results of the sampling study is about 2.0%. Conclusions are made showing the possibilities for increasing the readiness of graduates of economic programs of regional universities for the first employment. We proposed the directions of further research of the subject area related to professional socialization and the readiness of university graduates for the first employment.