Labour market perspectives of students graduated in 2007 and 2009 from Kaposvár University

Abstract

Career follow-up systems examine how graduated students find employment and adapt to a new workplace. This survey is useful feedback for Kaposvár University, as it was carried out among pupils graduated in 2007 and 2009. More than seventy-five percent of the students who graduated in 2007 have found a job by now. Fifty percent of career starters who graduated in 2009 have also found employment. More than half of the examined graduates work at their first workplaces and three-quarters of the questioned persons are full-time employees. Main employers of students graduated in 2007 are institutes run by the state or municipalities, while pupils graduated in 2009 were mostly hired by economic companies. Sixteen percent of students graduated in 2007 and ten percent of pupils who took their degree in 2009 work in management posts. Less than twenty percent of the employees work at a second job. The monthly net income of graduates' households is relatively high, because after starting their professional life many have moved to a separate residence from their parents, though they do not yet have their own children. Keywords: career follow-up system, graduated, students, career starter, employee, employer