scholarly journals VOLUNTARY SERVICE AS A TOOL INFLUENCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL CAREER

2019 ◽  
pp. 94-101
Author(s):  
Monika Grabowska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Voluntary Activity ◽  
Voluntary Service ◽  
Good Education ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Job Candidates ◽  
Positive Effect

In the article, the author systematizes the knowledge concerning the issue of voluntary service as a tool that contributes to the changing of the interpersonal competences of future job candidates. Voluntary service enables young people to get valuable experience, influences the development of professional career and facilitates the entry of young people in the modern labour market. Thanks to the volunteering, they gain a competitive advantage on the labour market regardless of industry or position. Studies show that they are better perceived by future employers as candidates and have better perspectives in finding a job in the contemporary labour market. Nowadays good education is not enough. There is something else needed like additional competencies outside the formal education. The tool for acquiring such competences is a voluntary service which plays an increasingly important role among the younger generation. The purpose of the article is to systematize knowledge in the field of volunteering and to present the relations between voluntary activity and the prospects of candidates entering the labour market. The article reviews Polish and European literature and reports on this topic. Conclusions are that employers appreciate the non-professional activity of job candidates. Currently, young people are aware that volunteering activities have a positive effect on their situation on the labour market.

scholarly journals Proactivity versus self-efficacy in the process of developing a career by the youth

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucyna Myszka-Strychalska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Successful Career ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
Practical Implications

The contemporary labour market is characterised by broadly understood flexibility which conditions the uncertainty of the professional situation of a person participating therein. One of the factors increasing their chances to have a successful career are not only relevant competences, qualifications and proactive behaviours to the benefit of their own development, but also their trust in their own abilities. In this article it has been attempted to confirm the thesis on the existence of co-dependence between the individual’s proactivity and self-efficacy in the process of developing a professional career. To this end, a review of selected theoretical depictions on both, constructs and results of research explorations specifying mutual relations, was conducted. The observations made have both, theoretical and practical implications that are interesting in cognitive terms. The analysis thereof may prove to be especially important with regard to young people who are preparing to enter the labour market.

scholarly journals De arbeidsmarktintegratie van jongeren in Europa verklaard

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marloes de Lange ◽  
Maurice Gesthuizen ◽  
Maarten H.J. Wolbers
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Labour Market Integration ◽  
Youth Labour Market ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Youth Labour

Youth labour market integration in Europe explained Youth labour market integration in Europe explained Young people in Europe face great difficulties nowadays when first entering the labour market. Unemployment and temporary employment are high among youth, although considerable differences in these figures exist between European countries. In this article, we study to what extent cyclical, structural and institutional factors explain cross-national variation in youth labour market integration. In addition, we examine to what degree educational differences exist in the impact of these macro characteristics. To answer these research questions, we use data on young people from 29 European countries who were interviewed in the European Social Survey of 2002, 2004, 2006 or 2008 and left day-time education in the period 1992-2008. The results of the empirical analysis first of all show that high unemployment prevent young people from a smooth integration in the labour market. In addition, economic globalization has a positive effect on youth labour market integration. We also demonstrated that young people experience less difficulties with labour market integration as the educational system is more vocational specific. Higher educated in particular profit from the positive effect of the vocational specificity of the educational system. Finally, as the employment protection legislation of incumbent workers is stricter, young people experience more difficulties with labour market integration, especially higher educated youth.

scholarly journals Work values of Lithuanian university students: Internal structure

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Vincentas Lamanauskas ◽  
Dalia Augienė
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Work Value ◽  
The Individual

Individual’s work values define his/her career purposefulness. Individual’s chosen work values allow foreseeing what activity context and career model is important for him/her, seeking to successfully realize oneself in professional activity. Planning his/her professional career an individual is searching for the activity sphere, which could conform not only to his/her personal features, but also to his/her value orientations. Work values important for the individual allow realizing if they form conditions for planning modern career (successfully solve constantly changing activity problems and to correspond to always new raised requirements for a person in the organisation or in labour market), the realisation of which in today’s constantly changing labour market and social context becomes more and more problematic. Empiric research was carried out seeking to discover the work (activity) value structure. The research instrument was created by the authors of the research. Two hundred sixty five first-year students from three Lithuanian universities participated in the research. These are the main higher education institutions, preparing teachers in Lithuania. The obtained results show that work value structure of the first year students studying in social and humanitarian science programmes can be expressed by 6 main factors: responsible activity values, active work values, harmony values, reward values, activity style values, and social status values. Also, the main differences were ascertained between female and male work value structure. Responsible activity values, active work values and harmony values were much more important for female than male students.

Generation Y volunteering – in the perspective of functioning in the changing labour market

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Wioleta Duda ◽  
Daniel Kukla
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Heterogeneous Group ◽  
Voluntary Activity ◽  
The Subject

The study is a characteristic of generation Y, which is a heterogeneous group, as it includes teenagers, youth, students, young people entering the labour market and starting families. This diversity causes difficulties in determining their clear determinants in terms of functioning on the labour market. The approach to work of a selected group of representatives of generation Y in the context of voluntary activity, which is the basis and a determinant of professional preparation, was presented. An attempt at this characterization was made based on an analysis of the literature on the subject and available reports.

scholarly journals Proaktywność versus poczucie skuteczności w procesie konstruowania kariery przez młodzież

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-162
Author(s):  
Lucyna Myszka-Strychalska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Successful Career ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
Practical Implications

The contemporary labour market is characterised by broadly understood flexibility which conditions the uncertainty of the professional situation of a person participating therein. One of the factors increasing their chances to have a successful career are not only relevant competences, qualifications and proactive behaviours to the benefit of their own development, but also their trust in their own abilities. In this article it has been attempted to confirm the thesis on the existence of co-dependence between the individual’s proactivity and self-efficacy in the process of developing a professional career. To this end, a review of selected theoretical depictions on both, constructs and results of research explorations specifying mutual relations, was conducted. The observations made have both, theoretical and practical implications that are interesting in cognitive terms. The analysis thereof may prove to be especially important with regard to young people who are preparing to enter the labour market.

scholarly journals DETERMINANTS OF NEET (NOT IN EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION OR TRAINING) ON THE POLISH LABOUR MARKET

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna M. Rak
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Individual Risk ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Employment Education ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Risk Factors ◽  
The Eu

The principal purpose of the study is to identify the individual risk factors of young people becoming the NEET generation on the Polish labour market. The first part of the paper comprises a literature-based overview of definitions of the NEET category based and a presentation of the risk factors of young people becoming NEET. The second part presents the results of empirical analyses conducted employing a questionnaire on a group of 120 individuals, aged 15 through 30, who met all criteria of the NEET definition set forth by the Employment Committee of the EU. The research demonstrates that among the major determinants of young people becoming NEET are financial hardship of their households, low motivation to continue formal education or change professional qualifications, and low level of job-seeking activity.

Generation Y Employees. Monolith or Variety Mixture?

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Łukasz Mlost
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Older Employees ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Difference

The article presents, in a synthetic way, the results of studies and reports concerning generation Y, in particular in relation to students and their specific attitudes and expectations in terms of work, employers and professional career. This article is also a voice in discussion on the homogeneity of this generation as well as on the difference scale between young people entering the labour market and older employees within the context of the debate on that issue, taking place in the scientific literature and social and economic life. Based on presented study results, conclusions of applicable nature have been arrived at, which are important from the perspective of how to effectively manage and motivate young people entering the labour market.

THE TROUBLED JOURNEYS OF SCHOOL DROP-OUTS: WASTAGE, REDEMPTION AND POLICY CONSIDERATIONS

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Andile Dube ◽  
Mokubung Nkomo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Second Chance Education ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Drop Outs ◽  
Second Chance

The study traces the pathways of young people who dropped out of school between grades 1 to 11 as they seek re-entrance to the education, training and development (ETD) system, or entrance into the labour market. Particular attention is given to the factors that determine the choices that drop-outs make in either re-entering the ETD system or entering the labour market. An analysis of the experiences of the interviewed sample of drop-outs is presented. The study employs a qualitative research methodology, using interviews to elicit the experiences of drop-outs and school managers. Through snowballing, 14 youths and three principals were selected from a township south of Durban. Individual and focus group interviews were conducted. The findings provide insights into the drop-outs’ perceptions regarding the value of investing in education. They are discussed further in relation to the respective theories used in the study. The concluding section suggests the need for investments in second chance education by government and the private sector, and proposes an integrated model to assist young people who re-enter psychologically and emotionally.

The Fight against Idleness

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony F. Heath ◽  
Elisabeth Garratt ◽  
Ridhi Kashyap ◽  
Yaojun Li ◽  
Lindsay Richards
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Educational Expansion ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Wide Range

Unemployment has a wide range of adverse consequences over and above the effects of the low income which people out of work receive. In the first decades after the war Britain tended to have a lower unemployment rate than most peer countries but this changed in the 1980s and 1990s, when Britain’s unemployment rate surged during the two recessions—possibly as a result of policies designed to tackle inflation. The young, those with less education, and ethnic minorities have higher risks of unemployment and these risks are cumulative. The evidence suggests that the problems facing young men with only low qualifications became relatively worse in the 1990s and 2000s. This perhaps reflects the dark side of educational expansion, young people with low qualifications being left behind and exposed in the labour market.

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.

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