Flash Eurobarometer 304 (Employers’ Perception of Graduate Employability)

• Main Author: European Commission, Brussels DG Communication, Public Opinion Analysis Sector
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.10241; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5447?lang=en; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5447?lang=de

Employment and employability of higher education graduates. Skills assessment. Cooperation with higher education institutions. Topics: 1. Employment of graduates: percentage of higher education graduates in the company; most represented educational fields. 2. Skills: skills assessment with regard to job requirements; importance of selected skills regarding recruitment of higher education graduates: good with numbers, good reading and writing skills, foreign language skills, computer skills, sector specific skills, communication skills, analytical and problem solving skills, ability to adapt to new situations, decision-making skills, team-working skills, planning and organisational skills; satisfaction with recruited graduates in terms of the aforementioned skills; most required level of graduate; awareness of the difference between bachelor’s and master’s degree; kind of training activities of higher education graduates in the company: in-house, short courses in universities or other higher education institutions, part-time study programmes in universities or other higher education institutions, training in educational institutions, distance learning, other; percentage of employees with higher education degrees in training activities in the last two years. 3. Recruitment: importance of selected factors with regard to the recruitment of graduates: anticipated growth, actual growth, higher turnover of staff, increasing complexity of tasks, higher number of applicants; percentage of higher education graduates recruited from other EU countries and from countries outside the EU; reasons for (not) recruiting graduates from outside the own country; importance of the following skills: work experience, studies abroad, internship abroad. 4. Filling of vacancies: most important challenges. 5. Cooperation with higher education institutions: frequency of cooperation with regard to curriculum design and study programmes; importance of these cooperations; frequency of cooperation with regard to graduate recruitment; best ...