A Winding Road--Professional Trajectories from Higher Education to Working Life: A Case Study of Political Science and Psychology Graduates

Autor/inn/en	Nystrom, Sofia; Dahlgren, Madeleine Abrandt; Dahlgren, Lars Owe
Titel	A Winding Road--Professional Trajectories from Higher Education to Working Life: A Case Study of Political Science and Psychology Graduates
Quelle	In: Studies in Continuing Education, 30 (2008) 3, S.215-229 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-037X
Schlagwörter	Career Choice; Higher Education; Political Science; Labor Market; Graduates; Vision; Lifelong Learning; Career Change; Foreign Countries; Psychology; Longitudinal Studies; Qualitative Research; Education Work Relationship; Work Attitudes; College Graduates; Employment Potential; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Staatslehre; Politikwissenschaft; Politische Wissenschaft; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Graduate; Absolvent; Absolventin; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Career changes; Berufswechsel; Ausland; Psychologie; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Qualitative Forschung; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Schweden
Abstract	This qualitative and longitudinal study focuses on graduate employment and the development of graduate employment paths. The aim of this article is to explore the present professional trajectory from higher education to working life, with particular reference to graduates from two different study programmes at Linkoping University in Sweden: Political Science and Psychology. More specifically, the article focuses on how graduates construe their professional trajectories in terms of their envisaged future work as senior students, and later as novice and early-career professionals with 18 and 34 months of work life experience. The results indicate that graduates' professional identities and vision of their future work change over time. The set of categories, depicting the graduates' vision and experiences of their professional trajectories, do not seem to follow a specific temporal and logical progression in their career. Rather, they appear in different order and at different points in time after graduation. The results, instead, endorse the discourse of lifelong learning and the need for flexibility and employability on the labour market. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10