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Sociologia

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SOUSA, Luís Nuno. Employment and career paths: the case of graduates of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu. Sociologia [online]. 2012, vol.23, pp.149-168. ISSN 0872-3419.

The increasing difficulty of graduates of higher education to access to employment is a reflection of changes in the supply of skilled labor as a result of the expansion of higher education and the mutability characteristics of the labor market. Investment in education and obtain higher education degrees are thus, increasingly, a position of risk, a priori, does not guarantee access to employment. This question can be posed only in terms of access to employment, but also at the real increase in job insecurity, especially visible in the gradual depreciation of young graduates, especially in the exercise of their first job. This article, part of the analysis of the process of transition to employment of graduates in 2005/06 Higher Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, their present course of 18 months after graduation from university. Meanwhile, the geographic scope of this institution of higher education, taking into account the national reality, is as an opportunity to verify their role in the process of local development, with the ability to attract and retain a labor- ‘young and skilled work at the regional level.

Keywords : Polytechnic Higher Education; Employment; Transition to work; Career.

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