Does having a higher education actually make it more difficult to find a job? National Taiwan Normal University’s (NTNU) Center for Educational Research and Evaluation (CERE) recently released statistical data from the Taiwan Integrated Postsecondary Education Database (TIPED), which was compiled from responses to questionnaires given to third year university students during the 2008-2009 academic year. The data shows that students were mostly worried about whether they could “find their ideal job after graduating” and “finding employment easily.”
The CERE conducted the survey during the 2008-2009 academic year, sending questionnaires to more than 160,000 third year university students. The results suggest that since entering university, college juniors were most concerned about (in descending order): finding their ideal job; easily finding employment; having inadequate basic competencies (in areas such as English, math and Chinese); Taiwan’s future prospects and development; and poor time management.
Students of the humanities, law, agriculture, design and communication studies, in that order, were most concerned about not finding their ideal job. Those least worried had studied veterinary medicine, police and national security, medicine and health, and the natural sciences followed by architecture and then urban planning. Therefore, students in the humanities were generally the most worried about finding a job after graduating.
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In another survey, conducted at the same time but targeting students who graduated three years previously, found that 67 percent of students were employed, while 10.6 percent were looking for employment, 10.2 percent were still full-time students, 6.5 percent were doing military service, and 4.5 percent were unemployed and not planning to work. The research center’s analysis suggests that university graduates not being able to find a job even three years after graduation only goes to show how competitive the jobs market is, and that more needs to be done in terms of improving students’ job-seeking skills prior to graduation.
The highest percentage of students who graduated in the 2005-2006 academic year that were working within three years of graduating was of doctoral graduates at 92.32 percent, followed by master’s degree graduates at 84.61 percent, while only 67 percent of bachelor’s degree graduates had found employment.
(LIBERTY TIMES, TRANSLATED BY TAIJING WU)
高學歷真是高失業率?國立台灣師範大學教育研究與評鑑中心的高教研究電子報近日公布一份針對九十七學年度的大三學生所做問卷統計顯示,學生最擔心的問題主要是「畢業後能否找到理想工作」、「能否順利就業」。
這份調查是由台灣高等教育師生問卷調查資料庫,針對十六萬多名九十七學年度就讀大三的學生所做的問卷普查;調查顯示,大三生從上大學以來,最擔心的依序為畢業後能否找到理想工作、畢業後能否順利就業、基礎能力不足(如英文、數學、國語能力)、台灣的前景與發展與時間管理不佳。
對於「畢業後能否順利就業」擔心程度較高的前五學門,依序為人文學門、法律學門、農業科學學門、設計學門及傳播學門;後五學門則由低至高依序為獸醫學門、軍警國防安全學門、醫藥衛生學門、自然科學學門、建築及都市規劃學門。顯示人文學門學生對於就業確實普遍憂慮較深。
調查同時也針對九十四學年大學畢業後三年的大學畢業生進行追蹤調查,為工作中(百分之六七)、待業中(百分之十點六)、全職在學中(百分之十點二)、服役中(百分之六點五)、目前不打算就業(百分之四點五)。研究單位分析,顯示三年內找不到工作的大學生確實還大有人在,大學生如何在就學時期就被教導如何找工作的能力,值得重視。
而在畢業生畢業三年後的「工作中」人數比例,以博士比例最高(百分之九二點三二),其次為碩士(百分之八四點六一),大專為百分之六七。
(自由時報記者黃以敬)
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