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Emilia Kmiotek-Meier; Tonia Rossié; Konstantin Canora – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Our work adds to the debate regarding higher education graduates' skills required in the labour market in Germany and beyond. Design/methodology/approach: Using Q-methodology and the accompanying narrations, we explore German employers' and employees' views (N = 26) on characteristics required at the entry level. Findings: Our findings…
Descriptors: Job Skills, College Graduates, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
Danijela Serbic – Psychology Teaching Review, 2024
My case study focuses on the career development of students and academics in higher education, specifically early-career and teaching-focused staff. We are all navigating the dynamic and extremely competitive landscapes of higher education and job markets, and in this case study I detail my approach to creating 1) pathways supporting student…
Descriptors: College Students, Career Development, Labor Market, Employment Potential
Renzo Carriero; Massimiliano Coda Zabetta; Aldo Geuna; Francesca Tomatis – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
The paper examines how individual motivations, the role of the supervisor and gender influence the early career path of doctorate holders. We investigate PhD graduates' occupational outcomes beyond academia in the framework of current literature on the oversupply of PhD holders and labor market constraints. Our analysis relies on two unique…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Occupational Aspiration, Employment Potential
Aina, Carmen; Casalone, Giorgia; Raitano, Michele – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
We analyse the association between age at tertiary graduation and outcomes of the first phase of the working career in Italy by using a rich longitudinal dataset built merging EU-SILC survey data with individual administrative records on working careers. Labour market outcomes is observed at the entry and along the 10-year period from graduation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Age, Graduation
Morrison, Andrew – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
This article applies Paul Gomberg's theory of contributive justice to the problematic of working-class graduates' access to skilled and meaningful work in the UK. I begin by outlining Gomberg's argument for the importance of quality work as a key social good. I then draw upon a range of sociologically-informed literature to offer a two-fold…
Descriptors: Working Class, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Foreign Countries
Ebner, Katharina; Soucek, Roman; Selenko, Eva – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This study illuminates the assumption that internships facilitate labor market entry and answers the question of why internships have a positive effect on students' self-perceived employability. It is assumed that internships enable more positive employability perceptions by reducing career-entry worries -- the worries of not finding a…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Program Effectiveness, Employment Potential, Anxiety
Whittington, Amy Green – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Career technical education plays an important part in the mission of community colleges--providing educational opportunities needed by members of their communities. Career technical programs prepare students for entry into the workforce. Accountability standards for career technical programs, from local, state, and federal bodies, monitor…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Credentials, Employment Potential, Community Colleges
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Geel, Regula – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
This paper analyses whether tertiary education of different types, i.e., academic or vocational tertiary education, leads to more or less favorable labor market outcomes. We study the problem for Switzerland, where more than two thirds of the workforce gain vocational secondary degrees and a substantial number go on to a vocational tertiary degree…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Success, Career Development
Kostoglou, Vassilis; Garmpis, Aristogiannis; Koilias, Christos; Van der Heijden, Beatrice – European Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Nowadays, the successful transition of graduates from university into the world of work is one of the most important priorities of all involved stakeholders: governments, institutions of higher education, and individuals, as well as researchers. The present study analyzes the employability characteristics of higher technological education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Technology Education, Technical Institutes
Biesma, Regien G.; Pavlova, Milena; Vaatstra, Rina; van Merode, Godefridus G.; Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Smith, Tony; Groot, Wim – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
Constant changes in society and the public health domain force public health professionals into new roles and the development of new competencies. Public health professionals will need to be trained to respond to this challenge. The aim of this comparative study among Poland, the UK and the Netherlands is to identify competence needs for Master of…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Public Health, Labor Market, Graduates
Bernstein, Aaron; And Others – Business Week, 1988
Discusses the increasing shortage of qualified entry-level workers. Describes solutions that are being attempted by various companies, including increasing the training budget, raising wages, and providing better benefits. (CH)
Descriptors: Adults, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, Entry Workers
Wilson, Patricia A. – 1989
The current crisis in education, coupled with the changing work force and changing business needs in the 1990s, poses a challenge for vocational education. Competency-based vocational education needs to evaluate its competencies to see if training graduates to meet them will serve the needs of the new work situation and keep the United States…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Shah, Chandra; Burke, Gerald – 2003
Forecasts of Australian labor market growth, net replacement needs, and net job openings to 2006 are presented using the nine-way grouping of occupations described by (Maglen and Shah, 1999). Analysis is based on classifying occupations by whether they are advantaged by globalization and technological change, relatively insulated, or vulnerable.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demand Occupations, Developed Nations, Employment Opportunities
Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia I.; Vilhuber, Lars – 2002
A study analyzed the extent to which escape from or entry into low-wage status among adult workers is associated with changes in employers and their characteristics. The research used a database that consisted of quarterly establishment records of the employment earnings of almost all individuals (11,207,031) who worked in Illinois from the first…
Descriptors: Adults, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Experience, Employment Level
Community Perspectives Series, 2002
This Community Perspective Series document includes statements about young people in the new economy of Toronto made by three participants in the October 2000 annual general meeting of the Toronto Training Board. "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the New Economy" (Olivia Chow) suggests that training programs available to young people are…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, At Risk Persons, Career Counseling, Computer Literacy
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