International Journal of Manpower: Volume 35 Issue 4

Employability of higher education graduates in Europe

Samo Pavlin, Ivan Svetlik

– The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on “Employability of higher education graduates in europe” from the perspective of global changes.

Employability of young graduates in Europe

Christelle Laetitia Garrouste, Margarida Rodrigues

The purpose of this paper is to measure the potential role of the field of education and the fact of having worked during studies on the employability of the higher educated…

Graduate employability and the development of competencies. The incomplete reform of the “Bologna Process”

Riccardo Leoni

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the coherence between competency mismatches and the objective of European policymakers to transform the higher education system through the…

Graduates’ job satisfaction across domains of study

Tomasz Gajderowicz, Gabriela Grotkowska, Leszek Wincenciak

– The purpose of this paper is to address the problem of job satisfaction determinants of higher education graduates across six selected study domains.

Job mismatch in early career of graduates under post-communism

Peter Robert

The purpose of this paper is to investigate vertical and horizontal mismatch between education and current occupation for graduates in four post-communist societies: Hungary…

Competencies which shape leadership

Carmen Delia Davila Quintana, Jose-Gines Mora Ruiz, Luis E. Vila

The purpose of this paper is to analyse three dimensions of leadership behaviour in professional environments by disclosing the specific competency profile developed by those who…

Vocational bachelor graduates in France: labour market integration and social mobility

Julien Calmand, Jean-François Giret, Christine Guégnard

In France, the vocationalization of higher education has resulted in an increase in the number of graduates and created new opportunities. The access of these vocational bachelor…

First-job educational and skill match : An empirical investigation of political science graduates in Slovenia

Tomaž Deželan, Danica Fink Hafner, Mateja Melink

The purpose of this paper is to examine the education-job match of political science graduates from Slovenia, as well as from selected EU countries, in the context of other…

The role of higher education in supporting graduates’ early labour market careers

Samo Pavlin

The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions by higher education (HE) senior professors and managers of their role in preparing graduates for entry to the labour market. By…