The Sense of Risk of Being Unemployed Among the Late MA Students

Abstract

The relationship between academic education and the functioning of university graduates on the labour market has recently been subject to numerous studies and analyses. Many researchers highlight risks that stem from problems in finding employment by young graduates and the consequences of these problems like social marginalization at the very early stage of career. Hence, academic education is subject to multiple analyses in the context of its quality factors or its relevance to market processes such as supply and demand (see e.g. Dyczewski 1990; Radziewicz-Winnicki, Wołk 2015). A successful transition from education to work is very often decisive for the future career and professional growth of graduates. Therefore, to be able to confront one’s professional education background with the situation on the labour market and one’s chances of finding an educationally relevant job is strategic (see e.g. Bańka 1992; Wierzejska 2014; Wierzejska, Karpenko 2015). The problem analysed in this article is the sense of risk of unemployment as experienced by the students at the threshold of career. The analyses are an attempt to examine this sense of risk as experienced by graduates of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (UMCS) representing diverse disciplines of academic education.