Efficient Strategies for University Graduates Accessing their First Job. A Review of Insertion Reports

Background: The Bicol University identifies if gender equity is an issue among its graduates. Purpose and Research Objectives: The study sought to identify if there is a relationship between the Bicol University graduates’ gender and their scholastic circumstances and employment/ employment-relevant setting. Sample and Research Design: The study used the 622 questionnaires retrieved in the original research and employed secondary analysis as its research strategy Results: This study found out that gender among the graduates of Bicol University seems to have a bearing on the course they took in college, their present employment and their present occupation. On the other hand, sex appears not to have an influence on the honors they received in college, the reason for taking the college course, their present professional skills, their place of work, the relation of the college course to their first job, the length of time in finding job and the job level. Scholastic performance in college seems not be influenced by sex. The latter also does not have any bearing on the reasons why these graduates took the courses they had in college. Recommendation: Managers in colleges and universities, and the industries may find in these findings some basis for making decisions vis-a-vis male and female Bicol University graduates.

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Educational Attainment and Educational Mismatch in the First Employment in Spain

ISRN Education ◽

10.1155/2013/850827 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marta Rahona-López ◽

Carmen Pérez-Esparrells

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

University Graduates ◽

Data Set ◽

Educational Mismatch ◽

Specific Data ◽

Youth Labour Market ◽

Labour Market Transitions ◽

Market Transitions ◽

First Job ◽

Labour Market Entry

This paper analyses the labour market entry of Spanish school leavers and the match between education and work at the early stages of working life, using a specific data set drawn from the Spanish Module Education to Labour Market Transitions (2000). Special attention is paid to university graduates, because Spain experienced a strong growth in the demand for higher education during the last decades of the 20th century. The empirical evidence shows that although over-education is a common phenomenon in the Spanish youth labour market, being a graduate seems to be associated with a lower likelihood of over-education in the first job. Our results indicate that over-education affects more women than men and foreigners than Spaniards.

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What Determines Wage Inequality Among Young German University Graduates?

Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik ◽

10.1515/jbnst-2013-0202 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 233 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Nils Braakmann

Keyword(s):

Wage Inequality ◽

Wage Gap ◽

Dominant Role ◽

University Graduates ◽

Decomposition Techniques ◽

Earnings Differential ◽

Fields Of Study ◽

Earnings Gap ◽

Labor Market Entry ◽

First Job

SummaryThis paper investigates the gender wage gap among university graduates in their first job and five to six years into their careers using a representative survey among German university graduates. Results from standard decomposition techniques show that up to 83%of an initial 24% earnings disadvantage for women in the first job can be attributed to differences in endowments that are fixed at the time of labor market entry. Of these, fields of study play a dominant role and explain up to 70%of the earnings differential. Adding employer characteristics raises the explained part of the differential to 96%. The importance of unexplained factors increases after five to six years where 40% of the earnings gap remain unexplained even when controlling for detailed experience and employer characteristics.

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University Program Characteristics and Education-Job Mismatch

The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy ◽

10.1515/bejeap-2019-0083 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Aleksander Kucel ◽

Montserrat Vilalta-Bufí

Keyword(s):

Early Career ◽

University Graduates ◽

Skill Mismatch ◽

Job Match ◽

Entrepreneurial Skills ◽

Program Characteristics ◽

First Job ◽

Job Mismatch ◽

Spanish Education

Abstract Over-education has been demonstrated to be frequent and persistent across countries. It often goes together with working in a job not related to the field of study (horizontal mismatch) or in a job that requires lower skills than acquired (skill mismatch). We study which program characteristics help university graduates to obtain a good job match. We do the analysis for Spain since the presence of over-education is strong in this country. We analyze the three types of mismatch: over-education, horizontal mismatch, and over-skills. We focus on the role of program characteristics in avoiding over-education in the first job after graduation, and in exiting over-education in the early career. We find that those programs that are academically prestigious and those that promote entrepreneurial skills help avoid being mismatched in the first job and, in case of being mismatched in the first job, they help exit this situation. Overall, our results give support to policies promoting the development of entrepreneurial skills in the Spanish education system.

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Effects of College Selectivity and College Major on First Job Attainment among Male and Female University Graduates:

Japanese Sociological Review ◽

10.4057/jsr.69.162 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 69 (2) ◽

pp. 162-178

Author(s):

Kohei TOYONAGA

Keyword(s):

College Major ◽

University Graduates ◽

Male And Female ◽

College Selectivity ◽

Job Attainment ◽

First Job

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Analysis of supply side factors influencing employability of new graduates: A tracer study of Bahir Dar University graduates

Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability ◽

10.21153/jtlge2019vol10no2art801 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 67-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Haile Mekonnen Fenta ◽

Zeleke Siraye Asnakew ◽

Petros Kibebew Debele ◽

Sifelig Taye Nigatu ◽

Aragaw Mulu Muhaba

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Time Management ◽

Positive Association ◽

Job Placement ◽

University Graduates ◽

Bahir Dar ◽

Field Of Study ◽

Related Factors ◽

First Job ◽

Bahir Dar University

The purpose of this study was to determine the job placement profiles of the graduates of Bahir Dar University and the relevance of school-related factors to job placement. The study was conducted at Bahir Dar University with participants who were first-degree graduates from the 2015 and 2016 cohorts. Stratified multistage random sampling was used to select respondents. Out of 4208 graduates, 867 graduates were selected to participate in the study. To determine the potential factors for graduate employability in the labour market, both descriptive and inferential statistics were applied.Results revealed that 79% percentof surveyed graduates were gainfully employed, with the majority (93%) having their first job related to their completed course. The time taken to find employment was from 1 to 6 months and the overall average duration of unemployment was 5.08 months. Sixty five percent of graduates reported that they used a public advertisement to find their first job and 58% reported that their employers used examinations to select potential candidates. A 12% variation in employability was explained by CGPA, preferred field of study, the number of companies contacted and time management skills of graduates. Moreover, graduates’ transitional employability has a positive association with cumulative GPA, preferred field of study, and internship practice. It is recommended that sustainable employment of graduates can be secured if the University improves its current curriculum to incorporate more employability skills demanded by the labour market.

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