How To Improve The Labor Market Insertion Of Graduates In Romania

The changes of the Romanian society also affected the labor market, leading to unprecedented imbalances between the job offers and requests both quantitatively and qualitatively. In this context, we aimed at analyzing closely the evolutions in this field in the last years and the generating causes, to study the way the higher education graduates project and begin their career, to identify modalities through which the universities can become a real support for their students. Our research capitalizes the opinions formulated by the young people studying within bachelor’s and master’s programs organized in the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, opinions collected during a survey carried out between February and April 2014. The purpose of our questionnaire-based survey was to reveal the extent to which the surveyed students know the labor market and the employers’ requests, they appreciate and capitalize the competencies they obtain during the study programs, they are interested in the prestige of the degree they will get, and they adopt career decisions founded on success models. The promised answers allowed us to check the validity of the six starting hypotheses. Associating the conclusions of this research with the tendencies highlighted by the analysis of the evolution on the labor market in Romania and in the European Union, we formulated the priorities that the Romanian universities should take into account to fulfill their role as a partner in the business environment, to adapt to its higher and higher requirements, to consolidate its position against the competitors who activate in the field of education abroad, and to contribute more actively to facilitating the immediate integration of their graduates in the profession for which they prepared.