ERIC Number: EJ1184614
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 8
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Enhancing the Quality of University Career Services in Taiwan: Perceptions of University Alumni
Ho, Hsuan-Fu; Huang, Wei-Ting; Hu, Tien-Ling
Contemporary Issues in Education Research, v11 n3 p113-120 2018
An adequate supply of a high quality labor force is crucial for national economic and social well-being; consequently, nations worldwide have placed significant emphasis on university graduate employability. Nonetheless, in Taiwan, a mismatch between knowledge acquired in universities and competences required by the job market has dramatically encumbered the supply of a high quality labor force. Thus, this research endeavored to determine the major career services that should be offered in higher educational institutions to alleviate the aforementioned human resource problems. The analytic hierarchy process was adopted as the major instrument for calculating the relative importance of each career service task, and 169 university alumni working in four major career fields participated in this research. The results indicated that participants from different career fields and who graduated from different colleges at different times have very different opinions of job service requests; therefore, universities should seriously consider the differences among students and provide the necessary services for each student in line with his/her particular requests. Moreover, although almost all participants agreed that sharpening students' job-search and interview skills was crucial in assisting students to find their first jobs, this service was extremely insufficient in universities, and universities thus have to place particular emphasis on this task in the future.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alumni, Career Counseling, Career Education, Guidance Centers, Graduate Surveys, Needs Assessment, Task Analysis, Occupational Information, Gender Differences, Institutional Characteristics, Work Experience, College Graduates
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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