Career Planning and Awareness in Psychology Undergraduates

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayle Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Service Usage ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Career Service ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between higher education and the labour market has been emphasised throughout educational policy and pedagogic literature. However, the labour market has become increasingly competitive, highlighting the importance of effective career planning. Perceptions of the labour market and career service usage were investigated in psychology undergraduates at one post 1992 English university. There was a low level of career service usage amongst undergraduates, and a considerable number of students were unaware of the facilities available. Degree route (generalised or specialised psychology) and year of study were not related to perceptions of the labour market or career service usage.

The next generation: Experiences of higher educated Turkish-Dutch on The Hague labour market

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Karijn G. Nijhoff
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Education System ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Market Positioning ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Dutch City

This paper explores the relationship between education and labour market positioning in The Hague, a Dutch city with a unique labour market. One of the main minority groups, Turkish-Dutch, is the focus in this qualitative study on higher educated minorities and their labour market success. Interviews reveal that the obstacles the respondents face are linked to discrimination and network limitation. The respondents perceive “personal characteristics” as the most important tool to overcoming the obstacles. Education does not only increase their professional skills, but also widens their networks. The Dutch education system facilitates the chances of minorities in higher education through the “layering” of degrees. 

scholarly journals Comparison of the effect of social background on the wages of Spanish graduates before and during a crisis context

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Fachelli ◽  
Dani Torrents
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Social Origin ◽  
Labour Market Situation ◽  
Job Destruction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
The Relationship

The economic context may have modified the relationship between higher education and the labour market. The rise in university fees, the labour market situation and the behaviour of employers, families and students could activate social background as a differentiating factor in post-higher education occupational status. The objective of the present study is to analyze if the social origin affects the labor insertion of the graduates, measured through their income. The labor insertion of graduates is analyzed in 2011 (crisis period) and compared with 2005 (period of economic expansion).Two Spanish databases are used in this analysis: the 2005 and 2011 Living Conditions Survey. The results presented show no income inequality related to social class of graduates. Between 2005 and 2011 most unskilled occupations suffered job destruction, thus homogenizing to some extent the graduates who were working in 2011 and reducing the internal differences.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Emotional Intelligence and Empathic Abilities in Medical Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria V. Vetluzhskaya ◽  
Antonina A. Abramova ◽  
Kira G. Serdakova ◽  
Ekaterina E. Bykova ◽  
Rina S. Khammatova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Intelligence Test ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
School Students ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction. The article presents the results of a study, whose purpose was to investigate emotional intelligence and empathic abilities as well as to identify correlations between these indicators in 3rd year medical school students. The relevance of the work is determined by the fact that both empathy and emotional intelligence play an important role in the formation of the professional competencies of future doctors. Materials and Methods. The study was based around a survey of 92 students of the Sechenov University. Data gathering was carried out using the Assessment of the Level of Empathic Abilities by V.V. Boiko and The Emotional Intelligence Test by N.&nbspHall. The relationship between emotional intelligence and empathic abilities was studied. Data were analysed using STATISTICA 8.0. Results. The majority of the participants were found to have both an understated and a very low level of empathic capability. The least developed were the intuitive, rational and emotional components, while the most developed was the “installations that promote empathy” component. The majority of the participants had a low level of emotional intelligence in Hall’s terms, with the worst developed parameters seen to be “managing your emotions” and “self-motivation”. The most developed parameter was “emotional awareness”. The results showed an average positive correlation between Hall’s empathy and the total indicator of empathic abilities (r = 0.37, p < 0.01), the intuitive channel (r = 0.32, p < 0.01), the “empathy facilities” (r = 0.31, p < 0.01) and the “empathy identification” (r = 0.26, p = 0.01) , as well as between “recognition other people’s emotions” and the total indicator of empathic abilities (r = 0.28, p < 0.05). The study found an average negative correlation between the “managing your emotions” and the “emotional channel” (r = -0.41, p < 0.001), the “rational channel” (r = -0.31, p = 0.003), the total indicator of empathic abilities (r = -0.28, p < 0.05). Discussion and Conclusion. Most of the participants have a low level of empathic abilities and emotional intelligence. The results of the study identify the need to develop empathic abilities and emotional intelligence in medical students with a focus on intuitive, rational and emotional channels of empathy, as well as “managing your emotions” and “self-motivation”, in order to train communicative professional competencies during the course of higher education.

Educational Qualifications and the Labour Market

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Osmo Kivinen ◽  
Risto Rinne
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Occupational Attainment ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

During the 1970s and 1980s a great deal of effort was invested in empirical research into the relationship between educational and occupational attainment. The concepts of ‘overeducation’, ‘underemployment’, and ‘diploma disease’ have been with us for some twenty years. In recent years, attention has been paid to the matching of educational qualifications to the qualification demands of work and the labour market, and the effects of this match or mismatch. In this article, Osmo Kivinen and Risto Rinne analyse the relationships between rising levels of education and demands for job qualifications. They deal with the potential of ‘over- and under-qualification’ and then examine the potential for increased flexibility in the modern labour market, in particular from a Scandinavian perspective. Finally, they discuss the implications of the new ‘flexible society’ for the future of higher education and educational qualifications in general.

scholarly journals University Career Service and Social Justice

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mcilveen ◽  
Bradley Everton ◽  
John Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Career Service ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

This article describes the social justice activities facilitated by a university careers service. The article includes a discussion on the relationship between social justice and career development in higher education. Working examples of the activities provided by the career service focus on the delivery of career-related services to students who are represented by the major equity groups identified within the Australian higher education sector The importance of theoretically informed practice and collaboration between campus agencies is emphasised as a means of achieving social justice outcomes.

The Relevance of Competencies of Graduates of Engineering Professions in the Labour Market

2018 ◽  
pp. 48-50
Author(s):  
Е. Сигат ◽  
E. Sigat ◽  
О. Полянок ◽  
O. Polyanok
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Degree Of Orientation ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The Relationship

The article is devoted to the study of the relevance of the competencies of graduates of engineering specialties in the labour market. The authors consider higher schools of Russia and America. Schools are guided in training of engineers on deep and actual knowledge, skills in the professional sphere, but forget about not less important, fl exible (soft) skills which are accepted to call «soft skills». The authors consider the quality of education of students in connection with its competitiveness and the possibility of employment in the labour market, the relationship between education and employment, the relationship of assessments and the actual competencies of the specialist. The authors show that the key indicators of the eff ectiveness of higher education and the quality of training is the degree of orientation of educational programs on the labour market. Labour market orientation is realized through interaction between education and employers and is formalized in the form of criteria and requirements for graduates in terms of their current practical suitability for employment. The introduction of new Federal educational standards poses the problem of developing such curricula, the implementation of which will allow graduates to form the necessary competence for employers. This suggests the need to introduce an additional system of assessing the qualifi cations of young professionals in the educational process of higher education, helping to determine the degree of their readiness to work in the profession and the initial orientation of University curricula to maximize this readiness. The system of professional standards acts as a basis, which helps to build training in accordance with the production requirements and determine the quality of this training.

scholarly journals Variation in Student Success across Europe: Exploring the Relevance of System-Level Explanations

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-245
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Hovdhaugen ◽  
Bjørn Stensaker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
System Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Time To Degree ◽  
Admission System ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existing Data

AbstractStudent success is often defined as students completing their degree, preferably within the estimated time to degree. However, if we apply this definition, student success is quite varied if we compare countries in Europe (OECD Education at a Glance 2013, Vossensteyn et al. 2015). The article identifies and discusses some system-level factors that is often mentioned as possible explanations of these differences including costs, selection and admission system differences and the structuring of higher education offerings, and the relationship between higher education and the labour market. However, based on existing data, the identified system-level factors do not correlate with the empirical variation in student success, and the article ends with some reflections about future research needs to advance the knowledge about student success.

THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIO-MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS IN THE CAREER CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION GRADUATES

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Vasilache
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Career Construction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Dimension

The paper entitled „The analysis of socio-motivational factors in the career construction of higher education graduates” falls within the sociological perspective. Professional career is a broad topic and viewed from different perspectives by each individual. Thus, the motivations of the choice of the theme are given by the complexity of the professional career phenomenon, the desire to identify social and motivational factors with a decisive role in the process of following a professional path. In this study, I set out to provide an answer to the following research question: What are the socio-motivational factors contributing to the career construction of higher education graduates?. For the conduct of the research, I used as methods and techniques: documentation, semi-structured focused interview, theoretical sampling; the investigated population being made up of 10 graduate subjects of the „Human Resources” specialization. The practical dimension of the research focused on the following themes: professional career; socio-motivational factors in career planning; the relationship between studies and the labour market; personal and professional development; educational, personal, and social barriers in career construction.

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