Sipos Norbert — Szabó-Bálint Brigitta

Examining the career-success dimensions in freshly considered economic spheres

An important requirement of higher-education institutions is to match higher education with the labour market. There are several approaches to measuring this; this study focuses on the factors influencing the objective and subjective career success of recent graduates. It rests empirically on analysing responses by 4,515 graduates in the field of economics, taken from the Fresh Graduates databases of 2011-2014. Career success was measured by a conceptual model of OLS regression to include objective and subjective dimensions based on Graduate Career Tracking System (DPR) variables. The findings show graduates as more successful from a subjective point of view than from an objective one. So it is not enough to focus on objective factors - examination of the subjective dimension is also important. Based on this and on other influencing factors, higher education institutions should put more emphasis on developing soft competencies that determine subjective success to a greater extent.

LXVIII . évf., 2021. May (515 - 539. O.), DOI:10.18414/KSZ.2021.5.515, Workshop

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