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Gardner, Phil – Collegiate Employment Research Institute, 2020
2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University and the 50th edition of the annual Trends in Campus Recruiting Survey. More than 3000 attempted the survey with 2408 providing information that could be used in preparing this report. Due to the high level of economic uncertainty, only 1036…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Employment, Personnel Selection, Employment Opportunities
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Lehmann, Wolfgang; Taylor, Alison; Hamm, Zane – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
Most Canadian provinces offer high-school apprenticeships to facilitate students' transitions to skilled work and address employers' concerns about labour shortages. Using interview data with graduates from high-school apprenticeships in Alberta and Ontario, we analyse the impact participation in these programmes has had on their educational and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Employment Opportunities, High School Students
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Hunink, Claudia; Raesfeld, Lydia – International Journal of Training and Development, 2022
Cooperations or transfers of the German technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system have taken place in different cultural contexts in recent decades. In Mexico, the so-called "Modelo Méxicano de Formación Dual" has been adapted to Mexico's cultural conditions. Yet, it still seems to be largely unknown in society, the…
Descriptors: Tourism, Mexicans, Decision Making, Organizational Change
Brennan, Jason – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
Do you want to go to graduate school? Then you're in good company: nearly 80,000 students will begin pursuing a PhD this year alone. But while almost all of new PhD students say they want to work in academia, most are destined for disappointment. The hard truth is that half will quit or fail to get their degree, and most graduates will never find…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Employment Opportunities, Paying for College, Employment Potential
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2020
Overall, too few students are completing two-year college. Those who complete are still starting off unequally. About one-third of students earning academic degrees do not transfer, but rather go directly to work and find their degree has little value in the labor market. Research suggests they could have benefitted from having marketable skills…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Outcomes of Education, Wages
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Souto-Otero, Manuel; Bialowolski, Piotr – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
The link between higher education and employment is central to the understanding of social stratification and social mobility. We use three theories to analyse the importance of education and credentials in recruitment decisions in European graduate labour markets: human capital (HC), network capital (NC) and reputational capital (RC) theory.…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Employment Potential, Social Stratification, Social Mobility
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Garaz, Stela; Torotcoi, Simona – European Education, 2017
This article explores how elitist elements are preserved within an expanding higher education. It analyzes whether the choice of field of study may be one of these elements and focuses on the case of Roma students in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The analysis reveals that Roma in the region are not only underrepresented in higher education in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Minority Groups, Labor Market
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Ahmed, Sabrina – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, governments all around are producing new policy provisions to mitigate the learning gap. Based on the new policy provision, universities switched to online education because social distancing was necessary to stop community transmission of the virus (Crawford et al., 2020). This study aims to explore how…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Social Differences
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Shin, Jung Cheol; Kim, Seung Jung; Kim, Eunyoung; Lim, Heejin – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2018
This study investigates the relationships between students' satisfaction with their doctoral program and motivational and socio-environmental factors. In this study, doctoral students' satisfaction with their program is measured by their learning experiences such as quality of theoretical knowledge, research methodology, and competency. The…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Employment Opportunities, Student Attitudes
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Murray, Darrin S. – Communication Education, 2019
Contingent faculty in higher education markedly outnumber those considered tenured or on the tenure-track, with about 73% of faculty serving in nontenure-line positions (American Association for University Professors, 2018). The term contingent faculty refers to college and university instructors who may work part-time or otherwise off the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Part Time Faculty
Gardner, Phil – Collegiate Employment Research Institute, 2019
The 49th annual Recruiting Trends report is based on a survey convenience sample of employers currently seeking college talent through their interactions with college and university career services offices. This year we shortened the survey by half to encourage participants to provide complete information. 2,800 employers, representing a rich…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Employment, Employee Attitudes, Personnel Selection
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Barone, Carlo; Assirelli, Giulia – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Gender segregation in higher education (GSHE) is recognized as a key factor to explain the persistence of gender inequalities in the labor market despite the reversal of gender gap in educational attainment. Women are systematically overrepresented in fields of study, such as social sciences and the humanities, which offer relatively poor labor…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Gender Differences, Labor Market, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Xu, Di; Jaggars, Shanna Smith; Fletcher, Jeffrey; Fink, John E. – Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Using detailed administrative data from Virginia, this paper examines whether community college "vertical transfer" students who resemble "native four-year" students in their accumulated college-level credits and performance at their point of entry into the four-year sector perform equally well in terms of both academic and…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Outcomes of Education, Employment Opportunities, Comparative Analysis
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Zeidmane, Anda; Vintere, Anna – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2021
New digital technologies are changing entrepreneurship. Digital entrepreneurship includes new ways how to find customers for business, how to design new products, how to generate revenue, how to collaborate with platforms and partners and so on. Today's labour market requires staff with foundation digital skills, ICT general skills, ICT specialist…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Technological Literacy, Access to Information, Student Attitudes
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Bunnell, Tristan; Atkinson, Cherry – Journal of Research in International Education, 2020
Volume 2 of this journal included an article (Canterford, 2003) which discussed 'segmented labour markets' in 'international schools'. Using an economics lens, that paper investigated the predominance of British and American educators, concluding that a form of discrimination existed which was driven by demand-side factors. In particular,…
Descriptors: International Schools, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Selection
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