scholarly journals La equidad en la calidad de la inserción: un análisis de los indicadores subjetivos

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-371
Author(s):  
Lidia Daza ◽  
Juan Llanes ◽  
Daniela Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Bologna Reform ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University ◽  
Equity Perspective

Este artículo analiza la calidad de la inserción de los graduados catalanes en situación de ocupación tres años después de obtener el título universitario. La inserción se estudia a partir de los indicadores subjetivos del término desde la perspectiva de la equidad. Se ha indagado sobre la satisfacción del egresado con el trabajo, la valoración que hacen de las competencias adquiridas en la universidad y su utilidad en el mercado laboral, y si perciben equilibrio entre la formación y el desempeño laboral. Se ha optado por una metodología cuantitativa, analizando la Encuesta de Inserción Laboral de Graduados Universitarios de la Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya (AQU) para los años 2014 y 2017. Se trata de una muestra estratificada por titulación en la que han participado 17.337 y 15.563 respectivamente. Los resultados manifiestan que las características estructurales de los titulados universitarios, especialmente ser mujer, y educativas, como tener buenas notas y haber estudiado un grado que no sea del área de Humanidades, contribuyen a configurar su percepción más positiva sobre la transición al mercado laboral en términos de indicadores subjetivos de inserción. El análisis comparado entre las dos ediciones evidencia el efecto de la crisis económica y los indicios de recuperación, muy pronunciada en el caso del área de Ing. y Arquitectura. Finalmente, Bolonia y el aprendizaje por competencias han dado sus frutos, pese a que será necesario seguir trabajando en políticas orientadas al seguimiento y acompañamiento del estudiante en la transición al trabajo. This article analyses the quality of access to the labour market for Catalan graduates three years after obtaining a university degree. The labour integration process is studied on the basis of subjective indicators of the term from an equity perspective. For this purpose, job satisfaction has been investigated, as well as the assessment of the skills acquired at university and their usefulness in the labour market, and whether students perceive a balance between training and job performance. A quantitative methodology has been chosen, working with secondary data from the Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya (AQU) for the years 2014 and 2017. The results show that the structural characteristics of the university graduates, especially being women, and educational characteristics, such as having good grades and having studied a degree that does not belong to the area of Humanities, contribute to configuring a more positive perception of the transition to the labour market. The comparative analysis between the two editions evidences the effect of the economic crisis and the signs of recovery, very pronounced in the case of the area of Engineering and Architecture. Finally, the Bologna reform and competence-based learning have given rewards, even though it will be necessary to continue working on policies aimed at monitoring and guiding student in the process of transition to the labour market.

scholarly journals The importance of horizontal fit of university student jobs for future job quality

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice I.J.M. Van der Heijden ◽  
Pascale M. Le Blanc ◽  
Ana Hernandez ◽  
Vicente Gonzalez-Roma ◽  
Jesus Yeves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Perceived Employability ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the antecedents of the quality of graduates’ jobs when they enter the job market after university graduation. Design/methodology/approach Survey data collected from 173 Spanish bachelor and master’s degree university graduates at two time points (two months before and six months after graduation, approximately) were analyzed by means of path analysis. Findings A moderated mediation model was tested, where the relationship between the horizontal fit (HF) between the university degree subject and the student’s job and the quality of the graduate’s job after graduation is mediated by self-perceived employability and moderated by the time devoted to a student job. Results showed that the relationship between HF and job quality was partially mediated by self-perceived employability. However, contrary to the proposed hypothesis, this relationship did not depend on the time devoted to a student job. Originality/value This study contributes to improving the understanding about how and why university students’ work experience is related to the quality of their jobs as fresh graduates.

scholarly journals THE EVIDENCE OF THE GRADUATES PROFESSIONAL INSERTION – A PERFORMANCE INDICATOR OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS QUALITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 13(62) (2) ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
V. CALUGHER ◽  
E. AMELICICHIN
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Important Concern ◽  
Practical Research ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The university graduates’ professional insertion represents an important concern for the beneficiaries of the educational process in the contemporary society. The actuality of the problem increases once with the advantages that the university obtains them by applying mechanisms of evidence of the former students’ employability. We have proposed an experimental-practical research, which addresses the problem of the relationship between the educational offer of the university and the labour market, aiming to improve the quality of the educational process by connecting it to social requirements.

scholarly journals EMPLOYABILITY OF RECENT GRADUATES. OPINIONS OF CATALONIAN COMPANIES AND INSTITUTIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Guàrdia-Olmos ◽  
Maribel Peró-Cebollero ◽  
Mar Martínez-Ricart ◽  
Cristina Cañete-Massé ◽  
Jaume Turbany-Oset ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Business World ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
Differential Pattern ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University ◽  
A Company

Introduction: Labor insertion for young people is probably more difficult nowadays than it was a few decades ago in all productive sectors and in academic education. A few decades ago, having a university degree was a guarantee of quick labor insertion, but nowadays, although having a university degree may somewhat alleviate the unemployment rate, it is still high  among recent university graduates. In this paper, we show the differential profile of the companies who do hire recent graduates as compared to those who do not.Methodology: We worked with a sample of 1,325 employers from the business world of Catalonia, who were administered the questionnaire prepared adhoc during 2014. Results: The main results show that the more workers a company has, the higher the probability that they will hire recent graduates. Companies with a high percentage of graduated  workers are more likely to hire recent graduates. Companies who are willing to work with Agency for the Quality of the University System of Catalonia hire more than those who are not. And finally, the service sector hires more than construction or industry.Conclusions: In the present study we have shown a differential pattern between the companies that hire recent graduates or not, a very important aspect because this could help define university policies to facilitate the transition to the labor market.

University Graduates’ Employability, Employment Status, and Job Quality

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente González-Romá ◽  
Juan Pablo Gamboa ◽  
José M. Peiró
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Hierarchical Level ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Career Identity ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
The University

We investigated whether a set of indicators of the employability dimensions proposed by Fugate, Kinicki, and Asforth (i.e., career identity, personal adaptability, and human and social capital) are related to university graduates’ employment status and five indicators of the quality of their jobs (pay, hierarchical level, vertical and horizontal match, and job satisfaction). We analyzed a representative sample of university graduates ( N = 7,881) from the population of graduates who obtained their degree from the University of Valencia in the period 2006–2010. The results showed that indicators of human and social capital were related to employment status, whereas indicators of human and social capital and career identity were related to distinct job quality indicators. These results support the validity of the conceptual model proposed by Fugate et al. to investigate employability in samples of university graduates.

scholarly journals Study skills acquired by university alumni: analysis of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University graduates’ career survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-304
Author(s):  
Dariusz Stępkowski
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Study Skills ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Repeated Analysis ◽  
Career Analysis ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Career Survey ◽  
Education Process

The career analysis conducted among the alumni of universities is dominated in Poland by the tendency to verify which competencies (demanded mostly by the labour market) they have acquired and how they have managed to cope with finding employment. The ability of studying is a rarely discussed problem, which is unjustifiably considered necessary only during the course of study. However, this ability leads to shaping the extent of academic thinking, also understood as a specific way of solving problems – not only purely academic ones but professional ones as well. The author of the presented article, while referring to pedagogical concepts of S. Hessen and D. Benner, has developed a theoretical model of study skills and subsequently conducted its empirical verification by performing a repeated analysis of selected data obtained in 2016 during the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University graduates’ career analysis.The conducted replication has proved that, firstly, the exploration of study skills among the alumni has not been taken into account when examining careers of the graduates, which might have served as feedback regarding the modification of the education process at the university; secondly, it seems that the graduates have acquired study competence at least to a certain degree, which finds evidence in success achieved by most of them – i.e. finding employment; and, thirdly, satisfaction of completing studies is linked with the feeling of having the right competence and consequently with recommending the university to others.

scholarly journals A geography graduate’s transition into the labour market in Poland: a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the process

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (29) ◽  
pp. 103-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danuta Piróg
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Labour Market Situation ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Limited Opportunity ◽  
The University

Abstract Transition, i.e. the education-to-work shift, is considered one of the most important processes in human life. The characteristics of transition hinge on, first of all, the labour market situation, the economic climate in the region, the educational services market and the aspirations of society. Virtually unlimited access to education at an academic level and the growing appetite of young people for degrees have resulted in a rapid increase in the number of university graduates. Consequently, there has been a high supply of employees with university degrees. However, the speed and type of transition among recent graduates is one of the least investigated processes on the labour market in Poland. The article presents the results of a survey on how Polish geographers enter the job market. The study compares geographers’ professional qualifications, aspirations and plans about their future job at the time of graduation with the actual fulfilment of those plans six months later. Quantitative analysis of the process shows that half the graduates have succeeded in finding employment. Qualitative analysis of the type of jobs shows that the university-to-work transition was unsatisfactory in many respects. For example, the new position was unlikely to require the graduates to use the competences acquired during the course of study, the job offered limited career development opportunities and had a low remuneration. All the above raise concerns regarding the limited opportunity for successful transition and the respondents’ low satisfaction level.

scholarly journals Firm Structural Characteristics and Financial Reporting Quality of Listed Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olumide A. Olowokure ◽  
Muhammad Tanko ◽  
Terzungwe Nyor
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Reporting Quality ◽  
Financial Reporting Quality ◽  
Loan Loss ◽  
Loan Loss Provisions ◽  
The Impact

<p>The quality of financial report is very crucial as published financial reports remains, for the most part, the only means by which outside shareholders and investors keep themselves informed about the performance of the firm. In the present economic scenario, this concern for financial reporting quality becomes more acute as emerging market economies and more importantly mono economies like Nigeria face greater uncertainties as they combat the challenges of unprecedented fall in oil prices. In addition to this, the suspension of the CEO, Chairman and two other directors of Stambic IBTC bank by the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria for filling a misleading financial statement for 2013 and 2014 has also shown that the issue of financial reporting quality cannot be overemphasized. Using secondary data from the published reports of thirteen listed deposit money banks in Nigeria for over a period of ten years between 2005 and 2014, this paper seeks to find the determinants of financial reporting quality and reports the findings of the impact of structural characteristics like age, size and level of leverage on financial reporting quality. Using prio studies as a guide, we developed a model for loan loss provisions and generated the residuals, using these residuals know as abnormal loan loss provisions as the dependent variable for the multiple regression analysis, the study did not find any evidence of significant relationship between firm age, size, leverage and financial reporting quality.</p>

QUALITY OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND CAREER OF HR MANAGERS (IN THE ASSESSMENT OF GRADUATES)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
T. Chernyak
Keyword(s):  
Personnel Management ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Hr Managers ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training

The article discusses the current problems of assessing the quality of professional training of HR managers from the perspective of graduates of the HR direction working in this area.For ten years the author of the article has been assessing the quality of training university graduates as deputy vice rector for organizing practice, employment and promoting employment of graduates. The results of annual studies of satisfaction with the quality of education of all participants in the educational process: students; employers and graduates of the university were an indispensable indicator in the preparation and conduct of accreditation of the university, it has repeatedly reported at conferences and published. The accumulated experience allowed us to conduct annual monitoring studies on the problem of satisfaction with the quality of professional training of graduates of the Department of Personnel Management of the Siberian Institute of Management, a branch of the RANEPA. The article provides only some generalized results of the author's studies in 2017 - 2019 on assessing the quality of professional training and career of specialists from the position of graduates of the department. The author conducts a brief analysis of theoretical foreign and domestic sources to study the problems of assessing the quality of education and training of specialists; considers the problems of development of criteria for assessing the quality of training, external and internal assessment, and the inclusion of certain assessment objects in the assessment, relevant to universities. The practical focus of the article allows us to see both the positive aspects in the training of future specialists in the field of personnel management, and some omissions, which will improve the quality and applied nature of training, taking into account the identified needs of graduates oriented to the demands of the labor market.

scholarly journals EFFECTIVENESS OF THE APPLICATION OF TACTICAL TRAINING MODELS OF TENNIS PLAYERS IN THE TRADING SHOTS PHASE AND COMPLETION OF THE POINT

2020 ◽  
Vol 13(62) (2) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
F.C. COLIBĂŞANU ◽  
G. BRANIȘTE
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Tennis Players ◽  
Training Models ◽  
Important Concern ◽  
Practical Research ◽  
Tactical Training ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The university graduates’ professional insertion represents an important concern for the beneficiaries of the educational process in the contemporary society. The actuality of the problem increases once with the advantages that the university obtains them by applying mechanisms of evidence of the former students’ employability. We have proposed an experimental-practical research, which addresses the problem of the relationship between the educational offer of the university and the labour market, aiming to improve the quality of the educational process by connecting it to social requirements.

scholarly journals Az idősödő korcsoport munkavállalását meghatározó stratégiai tényezők

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
János Szellő ◽  
Zsolt Nemeskéri ◽  
József Zlatics
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Labour Market Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
National Initiative ◽  
The University ◽  
Culture Education

The Labour Market Research Group at the Faculty of Culture, Education and Regional Development of the University of Pécs started a research program in 2017 within the Human Resources Operative Program national initiative that aims to improve the quality of active ageing in Hungary. During the project, we cover several scientific areas, focusing on the social, health and labour market situation of elderly people. The special aim of the project is to develop a methodology for measuring and developing jointly the physical and cognitive competences. This paper presents the first phase of the research. We draw attention to those strategies, social, policy and content factors that fundamentally affect the employability and employment opportunities of elderly people. In further sections, practical models of old-age employment and their implementation possibilities will be presented.

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