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Title | Graduate Transition to Employment: Career Orientation, Employability and Work Identity of Selected Graduates of Three Universities of Economics (2010-2011 to 2015-2016) Academic Years | |||||
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This study mainly examines the graduates’ transition to employment of the selected subjects – 1270 out of the total 17320 graduates who graduated from Yangon/ Monywa/ Meikhtilar University of Economics between Academic Years 2010-2011 and 2015-2016. It studied the respondents’ demographic profile, employability, career orientation types, perception of employability skills, and work identity level perceived by the respondents, the relationship among the career orientation types, employability skills and work identity. For data analysis, the study used both qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods. The study utilized the following statistical tools: Frequency and Descriptive Analysis in general, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to check whether or not the data is distributed normally, Leven’s test to use homogeneity (the variances in the two groups must be similar), Independent Samples Test procedure to test if there is a difference in a measured characteristic between two population (assumption of homogeneity is met), Welsh’s test procedure to test if there is a difference in a measured characteristic between two population (assumption of homogeneity is not met and skewness values are both same sign), Pearson Correlation Coefficient to describe the extent to which two variables covey and the direction can be quantified mathematically. The secondary data used in the study were collected from the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Department of Students Affairs of Yangon / Monywa / Meikhtila University of Economics in mid-2017. In relation to study the employability of the respondents, most graduates were found to be employed in their first jobs within 3 to 12 months after graduation. Concerning types of career orientation perceived by respondents, they represented only hesitation and learning career orientation types. Regarding employability skills of the respondents, their highest perception of personal skills were only concerned with how they could improve social network and soft skill necessarily required for their working environment around the University of Economics that they had attended. The core skills perceived by the respondents as the highest benefit to them was their critical thinking or logical reasoning and strategic thinking obtained from attending the training classes before going into the workplaces. Concerning the process skills perceived by each graduate, their feeling that they understand more about the business ethics that should have been practiced and held in market after graduation from University of Economics was the highest mean value perceived by each graduate among process skills mentioned. Concerning work identity level perceived by the respondents, all graduates agreed quite strongly that the interpersonal skills and social networking were kind of employability skills which were necessarily required and demanded by the employers at their workplaces, and most of these skills had been already obtained at university. The respondents from Group II responded that the highest work identity as perceived by them was the “problem solving skills gained in the University of Economics can be applied effectively to their current job”, Similarly, the respondents from Group I responded that skill of “teamwork spirit and behavior gained in the University of Economics can be practiced effectively at their current job”, which was their highest work identity. As many empirical studies had observed, there was a strong relationship between those two career orientation types and employability skills. Furthermore, employability skills and work identity level perceived by the graduates were strongly related to each other. From this analysis of relationship between hesitation career orientation and employability skills of personal, we believe that core and process skills were highly related to each other especially the relationship between hesitation career orientation type and personal skills and core skills perceived by the respondents. It could be seen that the type of the graduates who perceived themselves as hesitation of career orientation during attending the university had highly constructed attitudes and valued their social network, friendship, general knowledge and experience through taking part in social network, sports, art activities and study trip and touring with friends but they have never been absent to attend to a class. Therefore it could be concluded that if the graduates had the higher perception of hesitation career orientation type in them, the personal and core skills of all respondents would be relatively higher, as suggested by the graduates who had attended the Yangon / Monywa / Meikhtilar University of Economics. |
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