Analyzing the employability of higher education graduates and detecting the effecting factors

Abstract

The employability of higher education graduates is nowadays one of the first priorities in Europe. This paper’s main objectives are to analyze the existing differentiations in graduates’ attitudes towards employment and to detect the effects of graduates’ personal and educational characteristics on their employability. The first-born data used are based on the conduct of a survey on a large sample of 1541 graduates of Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece. The results yielded through thorough statistical analysis focus on two directions: a) the analysis of the main variables portraying graduates’ activation towards employment after the acquisition of their first degree and b) the detection of the statistically significant effects of graduates’ main characteristics to the variables describing their employability. Conclusions are drawn and further future work is suggested