scholarly journals Competitiveness of a Specialist: Undergraduates’ Expectations and Strategies

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
N.A. Emelyanova ◽  
E.A. Voronina
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
The Future ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Key Competencies

The article tackles the problem of competitiveness of university graduates. The study sample is represented by the students of the Faculty of Management. The authors analyze differing views on competitiveness among employers and graduates, and characteristics of key competencies required to obtain and keep a job. A survey among the final-year students was aimed at studying their perceptions of their own competitiveness, job ambitions and expectations. The respondents’ attitudes towards labour market opportunities and career prospects were revealed. The strategies that the future managers use to improve their employability were described. The obtained results may be used to develop and include in the curricula some components of skills which enable the development of a competitive personality.

scholarly journals Education-Job Mismatch Among Canadian University Graduates: Implications for Employers and Educators

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Redpath
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Skill Requirements ◽  
Skills Shortages ◽  
Job Mismatch ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Labour Market Entry ◽  
Skill Shortages

This paper presents some of the key findings from a recent study of education-job mismatch among a group of Canadian university graduates. It argues that research on this form of underemployment can greatly enhance our knowledge of the changing structure of labour market opportunities and the relationship between education credentials and job skill requirements. In the wake of recent concerns about skill shortages, the education system has borne the brunt of criticism for failing to prepare young people for labour market entry. However, what is perceived as a problem of skills shortages may be more of a problem of inadequate skills utilization, in which case policy responses placing greater onus on employers are warranted.

The Future of Work and the Changing Workplace

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahesh K. Joshi ◽  
J.R. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Intelligence ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Future ◽  
Market Opportunities

The world of work has been impacted by technology. Work is different than it was in the past due to digital innovation. Labor market opportunities are becoming polarized between high-end and low-end skilled jobs. Migration and its effects on employment have become a sensitive political issue. From Buffalo to Beijing public debates are raging about the future of work. Developments like artificial intelligence and machine intelligence are contributing to productivity, efficiency, safety, and convenience but are also having an impact on jobs, skills, wages, and the nature of work. The “undiscovered country” of the workplace today is the combination of the changing landscape of work itself and the availability of ill-fitting tools, platforms, and knowledge to train for the requirements, skills, and structure of this new age.

scholarly journals The Australian labour market in 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 002218562110022
Author(s):  
Elisa Birch ◽  
Alison Preston
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Food Services ◽  
Hours Worked ◽  
The Future

This article provides a review of the Australian labour market in 2020. It outlines the monetary and fiscal responses to COVID-19 (including JobKeeper, JobSeeker and JobMaker policies), describes trends in employment, unemployment and underemployment and summarises the Fair Work Commission’s 2020 minimum wage decision. Data show that in the year to September 2020, total monthly hours worked fell by 5.9% for males and 3.8% for females. Job loss was proportionately larger amongst young people (aged 20–29) and older people. It was also disproportionately higher in female-dominated sectors such as Accommodation and Food Services. Unlike the earlier recession (1991), when more than 90% of jobs lost were previously held by males, a significant share (around 40%) of the job loss in the 2020 recession (year to August 2020) were jobs previously held by females. Notwithstanding a pick-up in employment towards year’s end, the future remains uncertain.

scholarly journals ‘We’re Meant to Be Crossing Over … but the Bridge Is broken’: 2020 University Graduates’ Experiences of the Pandemic in Ireland

Young ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110330882110047
Author(s):  
Virpi Timonen ◽  
Jo Greene ◽  
Ayeshah Émon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Crossing Over ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Market Uncertainty ◽  
Postgraduate Study ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Care Practices

We interviewed university graduates of 2020 in Ireland to understand how the coronavirus pandemic had affected them. Demonstrating a keen awareness of their mental health, participants had adopted self-care practices such as mindfulness. They recounted positive experiences of life in their ‘lockdown homes’ with supportive families. Some were embarking on normative adult pathways sooner than anticipated while others opted for postgraduate study to bide time. Participants reported heightened worry/anxiety and had limited their media use in response. Their plans did not extend beyond the immediate future, reflecting a degree of resignation. The participants accepted the strict constraints associated with pandemic management in Ireland. They did not view themselves as members of a group that was likely to experience the long-term costs of the pandemic but rather were attempting to negotiate their own pathway through labour market uncertainty while also demonstrating high levels of solidarity towards vulnerable groups in society.

Cybersecurity Awareness Framework for Academia

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 417
Author(s):  
Mohammed Khader ◽  
Marcel Karam ◽  
Hanna Fares
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Human Errors ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Core ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
The Future ◽  
Students Attitudes

Cybersecurity is a multifaceted global phenomenon representing complex socio-technical challenges for governments and private sectors. With technology constantly evolving, the types and numbers of cyberattacks affect different users in different ways. The majority of recorded cyberattacks can be traced to human errors. Despite being both knowledge- and environment-dependent, studies show that increasing users’ cybersecurity awareness is found to be one of the most effective protective approaches. However, the intangible nature, socio-technical dependencies, constant technological evolutions, and ambiguous impact make it challenging to offer comprehensive strategies for better communicating and combatting cyberattacks. Research in the industrial sector focused on creating institutional proprietary risk-aware cultures. In contrast, in academia, where cybersecurity awareness should be at the core of an academic institution’s mission to ensure all graduates are equipped with the skills to combat cyberattacks, most of the research focused on understanding students’ attitudes and behaviors after infusing cybersecurity awareness topics into some courses in a program. This work proposes a conceptual Cybersecurity Awareness Framework to guide the implementation of systems to improve the cybersecurity awareness of graduates in any academic institution. This framework comprises constituents designed to continuously improve the development, integration, delivery, and assessment of cybersecurity knowledge into the curriculum of a university across different disciplines and majors; this framework would thus lead to a better awareness among all university graduates, the future workforce. This framework may be adjusted to serve as a blueprint that, once adjusted by academic institutions to accommodate their missions, guides institutions in developing or amending their policies and procedures for the design and assessment of cybersecurity awareness.

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 The value of university internships

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 127-148
Author(s):  
Sandra Fachelli ◽  
Eric Fernández-Toboso
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
University Students ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Regression Technique ◽  
Job Placement ◽  
Bivariate Analysis ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Using Data

Universities place particular importance on their internship projects for university students. The purpose of this study is to identify if the internships have an impact on the students’ entry to the labour market. The methodology used is based on the bivariate analysis and the multiple binary logistic regression technique, using data from the 2014 Survey on the Labour Insertion of University Graduates (EILU), carried out by the INE. The sample used comprises 30,379 graduates and in the internships section, 21,622 university graduates. The results obtained confi rm that internships are a tool for job placement.

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.

Der soziale Arbeitsmarkt in Zeiten der Corona-Krise: Auslauf- oder Zukunftsmodell?

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Fabian Beckmann ◽  
Dominik Schad
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Regional Data ◽  
National Data ◽  
Ruhr Area ◽  
The Future

Zusammenfassung Mit dem Teilhabechancengesetz hat der Gesetzgeber 2019 auf das Problem einer persistierenden Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit reagiert. Konstruiert in Zeiten der Prosperität, haben sich die strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie auch für die Förderung arbeitsmarktferner Langleistungsbeziehender schlagartig verändert. Der Beitrag nimmt eine Zwischenbilanz des so­zialen Arbeitsmarktes in Zeiten der Corona-Krise vor. Auf Basis bundesweiter Daten zur Entwicklung der Förderfälle sowie einer vertiefenden Beleuchtung der regionalen Struktur des sozialen Arbeitsmarktes im Ruhrgebiet werden aktuelle Befunde präsentiert sowie Perspektiven dieses arbeitsmarkt- und sozialpolitischen Instruments umrissen. Neben der Exklusivität der Förderstruktur werden eine drohende Legitimationskrise, finanzielle Umschichtungen in Richtung pandemiebedingter Arbeitsmarktfolgen sowie eine abgeschwächte Aufstiegsmobilität in ungeförderte Beschäftigung als zentrale Herausforderungen diskutiert. Abstract: The Subsidised Labour Market in Times of the Corona-Crisis: An Outdated Instrument or Model for the Future? The commencement of the ‘Teilhabechancengesetz’ in 2019 was a reaction to the persistent long term unemployment on the German labour market. Constructed in times of prosperity, the structural conditions surrounding the promotion of the long term unemployed have changed abruptly in view of the coronavirus pandemic. This article reviews the subsidised labour market one and a half years after the commencement. Based on national data on the development of subsidised employment as well as regional data on the structure of the subsidised labour market in the German Ruhr area, current findings are being presented and future perspectives discussed, concentrating on an exclusive structure of promotion, problems of legitimation, possible financial shortages and decreasing mobility into non-subsidised employment as key challenges.

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