Employability Of Young Graduates Research Articles

PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG GRADUATES (ALEVEL + 4 YEARS, A-LEVEL + 5 YEARS) IN ABIDJAN

While education is the path par excellence to success, young graduates have inflated the already alarming rate of unemployment in recent years. The employment of young graduates and those of higher education in particular, is one of the problems encountered by many countries, particularly Côte d'Ivoire. To this end, it is important that particular attention be paid to it in order to lead to an understanding of the phenomenon and to propose reflections as to solutions. This study therefore aims to examine the relationship between professional identity and the integration of young higher education graduates in Abidjan. In other words, the objective of this work is to analyze the problem of the integration of young higher education graduates and to try to explain it in the light of the aforementioned variable, namely professional identity. It concerns two hundred and twenty (220) young graduates of higher education (A-level + 4 years; A-level + 5 years) whose age varies between 18 and 35 years. The approach consisted of collecting information from these young people about their professional identity through a questionnaire. This information allowed us to categorize the subjects according to whether they present a successful or confused professional identity and relate it to professional integration. The statistical processing of the data gives a very significant Chi-square (X² = 12.04; P ≤ 0.001) and shows the existence of a link between the two variables under study. Thus, the analyzes reveal that young graduates with a successful professional identity are more likely to integrate compared to their peers who have a confused professional identity. These results confirm the working hypothesis put forward at the start and are in line with those of previous work carried out in this field. They allow an understanding of the phenomenon of unemployed graduates with regard to the Social Cognitive Theory of Careers of Lent Brown and Hackett (1994) and constitute an important contribution for researchers in education.

Perceptions and role of university spin-offs on the employment of young graduates

This study intends to characterise and analyse the role that university spin-offs play in the employability of recent graduates and their function in opposing youth unemployment. For that purpose, this study uses empirical data from Portugal to analyse the evolution of the population with higher education levels, the evolution of the unemployment rate and the geographical distribution of university spin-offs. Additionally, a survey was adopted to collect data from 117 Portuguese university spin-offs to identify the main advantages and difficulties in hiring young graduates. The results indicate that the number of young graduates in these companies is small, representing only 11.8% of their total employees. The main advantages of hiring young graduates include their learning ability and new knowledge brought from abroad. By contrast, the main difficulties are their low capacity in dealing with pressure, low autonomy, and difficulties in taking responsibilities.

Perceptions and role of university spin-offs on the employment of young graduates

Perceptions and role of university spin-offs on the employment of young graduates

Offshoring Accounting Services: New opportunities for developing countries

The aim of this paper is to explore the viability of off-shoring of accounting services to foreign companies by providers of such services located in Republic of Macedonia. We have assessed the potentials of accountants in Republic of Macedonian to offer off-shored accounting services by using the criteria for assessment of outsourcing destinations in general as established by the McKinsey Institute. We have founded that there is considerable potentials for off-shoring of accounting and related services. Exploitation of these potentials would result in significant contribution to the accounting profession development and the employment of young graduates in accounting. In these terms, we offer some practical recommendations to the profession and to the policy-makers for further promotion of this business opportunity.

Internship and employability of graduates in a "glocal" context

One of the aims of European Employment Strategy is to encourage school-towork transitions and employability of young graduates. Moreover, a stronger relationship between education and economic system is also one of the objectives of Bologna’s Conference, in particular in the Mediterranean countries. In this scenario, internship would play a dual role: as a tool to encourage learning by doing and as an opportunity for the construction of a professional self, especially when career paths are becoming increasingly fragmented and uncertain. European data confirm a correlation between internship and employability, but in Italy this link seems weaker. The national model of regulation and specific constraints of the local labor market play a role in making internship a less effective tool for learning and employability of graduates, particularly in South Italy. The paper aims to test this hypothesis with a survey to a sample of graduates in Catania (N = 1157). The local dimension of the investigation confirmed how processes of coercive isomorphism at European level face the attributes of the socio-institutional environment of a certain territory, affecting the learning conditions and the opportunities of employability for interns.

Employability of young graduates in Europe

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure the potential role of the field of education and the fact of having worked during studies on the employability of the higher educated (ISCED 5-6) cohort targeted by the ET2020 graduates’ employability benchmark. Design/methodology/approach – Using the same data source as the benchmark (i.e. the annual LFS microdata from 2004 to 2010), and exploring the additional transition questions collected in the LFS 2009 ad hoc module, the authors define and test four hypotheses using a probit approach on each EU country. Findings – The degree plays a significant role in the employability of young graduates across countries and time. In terms of probability of employment, the leading field is health and welfare. In terms of type of contracts, the leading fields are social sciences and engineering. Moreover, what labour markets seem to value the most is the capacity of higher educated students to combine high-level studies and work, i.e. a high workload capacity and intellectual flexibility. Practical implications – Reaching the new European target of a minimum of 82 per cent of employment of young graduates will require countries to invest wisely in the most “employable” fields of education. This analysis will help policy makers in their future orientations towards that target. Originality/value – The originality of this work lies in its exploration of the exact same extraction of microdata used for the computation of the ET2020 Benchmark indictor and in its immediate political implications for the monitoring of this benchmark.

The Employment of Young Graduates in the Period 2000-2010: A Comparison between Six European Countries

The paper aims to assess the relative importance of participation and unemployment and the interaction between them in affecting the evolution of employment rates of young graduates in selected European countries. The Taylor formula is used to read the behaviour of employment rates in terms of movements in activity and unemployment rates. Using this analytical procedure, the comparison between the selected countries underscores two aspects in particular: the progressive isolation of Italy, due to the poor results of the reform of the higher education system at the end of the 1990s, and the widespread progress within the female segments. On a more general plane, the heterogeneity of European labour markets for young graduates assumes new characteristics in the decade but—it is argued—it remains significant. The relative importance of participation and unemployment, the impact of the reforms of the higher education system, the reaction to the crisis of the late 2000s, and the gender aspects sharply differentiate the evolution of young graduate employment in the individual countries.

In Pursuit of Scarcity: Transnational Students, ‘Employability’, and the MBA

‘Credential inflation’ is perhaps one of the more contentious consequences of the recent expansion of higher education. Concerns over the effects of credential inflation have spawned a number of debates around concepts of ‘employability’ and postgraduate learning. In the contemporary knowledge-based economy, it is argued, the employability of young graduates is increasingly dependent upon their ability to maintain ‘positional advantage’ in a labour market characterised by ‘boundaryless careers’. I examine these debates in the context of East Asia. Here, young people's positional advantage is sought, firstly, through the acquisition of an international first degree, obtained at an overseas institution. However, with more and more middle-class students going abroad for their education before returning to seek work, the ‘overseas degree’ is also increasingly subject to devaluation through credential inflation. I highlight the significance of postgraduate education and particularly the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) for young, overseas-educated, graduates in Hong Kong. I argue that the MBA is now seen as a vital supplement to an overseas undergraduate education and as part of an extended temporal and spatial process of study, in the face of prevalent discourses of ‘employability’, individual responsibility, and the need for the continual upgrading of skills.