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The value of higher education credentials in the labour market: Factors inflencing first-time employment for graduates in Greece.

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Title/Author:	The value of higher education credentials in the labour market: Factors inflencing first-time employment for graduates in Greece./
Author:	Dafou, Efthimia.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2004,
Description:	291 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11, Section: C.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-11C.
Subject:	Higher education. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10834141
ISBN:	9780355923346

The value of higher education credentials in the labour market: Factors inflencing first-time employment for graduates in Greece.
Dafou, Efthimia.

The value of higher education credentials in the labour market: Factors inflencing first-time employment for graduates in Greece. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2004 - 291 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11, Section: C.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Manchester (United Kingdom), 2004.

It has frequently been argued that, within the Greek labour market, great significance is attached to paper qualifications. The inference is that the employers of graduates new to the market, in particular, assume that substantive qualities are indicated by academic achievements. However, this assumption has never been adequately explored, since studies of labour market behaviour in Greece have largely been conducted at theoretical levels. This study set out to examine the skills needed for a range of first-time employment opportunities (and hence identify the substantive qualities sought in potential employees), and the extent to which employers see the paper qualifications of new graduates as signposting these qualities. The study showed that employers assess candidates for employment in terms of technical expertise, compatibility with company's stakeholders, capacity, and individual motivation. As evidence of the above qualities, employers consider aspects of the educational experience of candidates, as recorded on degrees. This explains the emphasis of employers on particular features of paper qualifications. Relevance in the type of technical expertise is seen as the greatest quality in recruitment. Consequently, the subject of study is of most importance in selection and becomes the requirement for inclusion in the candidates' pool. Other features of degrees, such as the type and the status of the awarding institution, the degree class and level do attract the attention of employers though only once the notion of 'relevance' has been matched. The study also identified some polarisation in the types of graduates that employers seek to recruit. For most posts in the organisation they tend to recruit those candidates whose assets are close to the minimum requirements of the job, but for a small number of high responsibility posts, they try to seek out candidates of 'high calibre'. The distinguishing factor between the two types is not academic achievement but their capacity, as it is demonstrated by performance on aptitude tests. The study is based on semi-structured interviews with employment managers in 37 industrial and service organisations, and representatives of the careers offices in eight higher education institutions. Building from inductive data processing and analysis, a theoretical model of current selection criteria and strategies is developed. This model is then used as a framework to interrogate the findings, and to portray the inferences that employers in Greece draw from particular aspects of undergraduate programmes. It is also used to identify some determinants of successful transition from higher education to workplace. Finally, the concluding chapter highlights some implications arising from the study. These relate to employers and government as well as those in higher education institutions able to influence the undergraduate curriculum and processes that determine employability.

ISBN: 9780355923346Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148448
Higher education.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Greece

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