Navigating the Transition from Higher Education to the Labour Market: A Wake-Up Call for University Students

• Authors: Peter J. Wells , Silvia Florea
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Many studies describing the transition from school to work focus on national patterns of labour market entry and in so doing, they often simplify the complex transition processes and job finding requirements involved. Our paper sets out to look at some transition obstacles and paths from higher education to the labour market from the graduates’ point of view as expressed during a recent event held at LBUS. We hold that in Romania the first job upon education is hampered by graduates across all disciplines having no or little work-based experience, thus marking national transition patterns/pathways as less compatible with those in other European countries.

Keywords

EN

higher education; graduate; transition; work; labour market

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Management of Sustainable Development
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 35-37

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2016-02-12

Contributors

author

Peter J. Wells

• UNESCO, France

author

Silvia Florea

• ”Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/msd-2015-0028