The Employment Problems And New Job Opportunities Of Persons Graduated From Physical Education And Sports Area

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out ‘to get into a job’ problem of per- sons those graduated from physical education and sports departments of universities and new job opportunities. The participation and guiding of people to sports activi- ties are related with the job opportunities of the persons those educated at physical education and sports area. Quality and quantity of employees with the quality of producing activity and programs are effective in sports associations. The system, in this way, depends on well-educated persons to serve sports activities with other fac- tors. Therefore, the achievements of aims of sports associations or organizations are succeeded by well-educated persons with other factors. But today’s results put for- wards that, persons educated in physical education and sports area, are not em- ployed in a balanced way to fulfill the needs of Turkey. The study was conducted on the two university students and with the litera- ture. The states of getting a job after the graduation of students applied to the Exams of School of Physical Education and Sports of Afyon Kocatepe University and to get into a job of the graduates of School of Physical Education and Sports of Ondo- kuz Mayis University were questioned. In this way, 280 applicants of School of Physical Education and Sports of Afyon Kocatepe University (year of 2006) and 200 students of School of Physical Education and Sports of Ondokuz Mayis Univer- sity (year of 2008) were involved in the study. Questionnaire was used as data gath- ering tool. Chi Square test, percent and frequency tests were used for statistical analysis and the significance value was set as 0.005. The expectations of the students of School of Physical Education and Sports on the getting into a job after the graduation were differed significantly according to their class grades. The expectations were getting weaker with the increasing class grades. But, the applicants before the starting the school did not have any important doubt about getting into a job. There are some possible solution ways to solve this employment problem as; National Ministry of Education could assign “sports branches teacher profession”, and there could be “sports serving class” by the change in the Law number 657, and persons educated in physical education and sports area could be employed in Youth and Sports General Directorate by changing the Law number 3289.