The Professional Activities of Graduates of Higher and Vocational Education Institutions after Graduation
3.1.3. Description of the current situation 3.1.3.1. Graduates of higher education institutions
The largest part (85%) of higher education institutions ’ graduates at the moment have aligned with the labour market and receive remuneration for their job, 5% are entrepreneurs but 3% – selfemployed (Figure 6). 8% of higher education institutions ’ graduates are not working and in addition this indicator is not substantially different for the graduates of 2002/2003 a.y. and 2004/2005 a.y. Almost all higher education institutions ’ graduates have work experience. Detailed information about current activities in various thematic groups is provided in Appendix 8. Figure 6. Current occupation of higher education institutions ’ graduates (%)
Paid employee
85
Not working Enterpreneur (employer) Self-employed
8
5
3 % of group
Base: graduates of higher education institutions (n=2491, 55% of all)
Note: The graduate may be employed as well as self-employed at the same time, therefore the total of ratios is more than 100%.
At the moment, 80% of 2004/2005 a.y. graduates and 62% of 2002/2003 a.y. graduates are working in the same workplace where they work during studies or after graduation. From graduates of 2002/2003 a.y. who are working, 27% have changed workplace during studies or after graduation once but 11% two or more times. In general, it can be concluded that higher education institutions ’ graduates do not tend to change their workplaces often. There are several thematic fields of education where change of workplaces is happening more often than on average. The workplace has been changed by one third of students of natural sciences, mathematics, information technologies as well as engineering and technology thematic fields. This result might be connected to the lack of specialists in this field of large competition in the labour market or unsatisfying work conditions or the graduates ’ efforts to find a better and more suitable work. Statistical analysis shows a close link between the number of workplaces and the number of graduates ’ children. Graduates who since starting studies have had several workplaces most often do not have children. From graduates who have had thee or four workplaces 22% have children, from graduates with two workplaces – 34% have children and 50% of those who have had one workplace have children. Those who had more workplaces more rarely have 64