La orientación universitaria para la mejora de la empleabilidad de egresados

Abstract

A quality education is the cornerstone of any education system. Seeking to provide a quality education system helps to establish the key components that will lead to its achievement. In this framework, the inclusion of guidance in universities is essential. It is often that attempts to make university guidance more adjusted to the expectations of the recipients are not well received by students. Considering this reality, while also aiming to configure a quality university education on the construct of university guidance in the Faculty of Education of the University of Salamanca, we have developed an innovation project to address the employability-related needs of the students from the Degree in Pedagogy. Knowing how these students perceive the educational process in this degree related to the guidance they have received regarding their future career. To this end, we contacted all the graduates from the Degree of Pedagogy (N=205) through an online questionnaire hosted by Google, from which we received 78 answers. We also asked current last-year students for their participation in a more in-depth interview and interviewed 8 of them. After the data gathering process, we detected the need to strengthen the professional guidance provided from the first to the last year of the degree. This lead to the establishment of some future lines of research, such as the development of a programme focused on professional guidance on the basis of the development of a professional project.