As an integral part of the process of integrating graduates into the labour market, the university fulfils several roles, including: trainer and creator of skills, by providing educational support for students, career counsellor by providing career guidance means and tools to support students in their career choices, responsible for monitoring the process of professional insertion of graduates, by following the occupational path of graduates, in order to contribute to the continuous adaptation of the educational offer to the requirements of the labour market. In recent years, there has been a real imbalance between the university study choices of high school graduates in European higher education and beyond, with fewer young people going to technical colleges than to non-technical ones. In this respect, in many universities, the inclusion of elements of entrepreneurship in the curriculum of technical specialisations has led to a reconsideration of young people's interest in polytechnic schools. Thus, a young person could successfully combine technical and entrepreneurial skills upon graduation, with a wide opening to the labour market, more specifically by being able to choose between developing their own business and proving their entrepreneurial skills in an organisation (company) as an intrapreneur. The paper presents, for the specific case of Transilvania University of Brasov, the general evolution of the labour market insertion process of graduates in recent years, respectively the university's strategy to support the preparation of students, both towards labour market positions requiring either intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial skills.

Authors:
Daniel Munteanu, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Daniel Munteanu is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at Transilvania University of Brasov in Romania

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