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Development of Strategic Framework for Supporting Higher Education Graduates Early Careers

Due to the high unemployment rate of young people, there is a strong emphasis on the issues/policies regarding the employability of young people on level of the European Union. Additionally, the enhancement of graduates’ employability is one of the criteria for the majority of university rakings. Accordingly, at the level of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), strengthening the potential employability of young people was set as one of the key development priorities. The closer cooperation between education, businesses, entrepreneurial sector, employment services and other stakeholders became one of the strategic goals until 2020, in order to ensure better graduates’ employability. In that context, not only the quality of study program, but also the support activities and services available to students are of great importance. The goals of this research are to explore how different elements of student support system are currently organized at European universities and to develop a strategic framework with the accompanying maturity model for supporting higher education graduates’ early careers in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT). This paper presents the research steps in the development of strategic framework with accompanying maturity model, following the design science principles.

graduates’ employability ; maturity model ; career development ; HEI

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