Research Pre-Proposal
Research Pre-Proposal
Many researchers have indicated that that we have an extensive large amount of highly college educated individuals who are force to working in jobs that are not related to their college major and jobs that are on a much lower level than their education and qualifications as well as a much lesser compensation. Over the past few years there have been employment problems and challenges for higher education graduates with the majority of the reason being due to the gap between the education sector and the labor market. This research study will discuss college graduates and potential employer perceptions about the challenges graduates encounter obtaining employment insight of the gap between the education sector and labor market.
Research Problem/ Significance of the Problem/ Literature Review
In today’s labor market we have a lot of highly college educated individual employed in positions beneath their qualified pay grade as well as below their education level with the some of the reason being due to the gap between the education sector and labor market.
According to “Why Are Recent College Graduates Underemployed?” by Richard Vedder, Christopher Denhart, and Jonathan Robe, “about five million college graduates are in jobs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says require less than a high-school education and about 48 percent of employed U.S. college graduates are in jobs that the (BLS) suggests requires less than a four-year college education” (Vedder, Denhart and Robe). With that in mind, according to “Recent college graduates in the U.S. labor force: Data from the current population survey” by Thomas Spreen, “every year we have thousands of colleges graduates across the United States enter the labor force with newly minted degrees and high hopes about their employment prospects”. With this bit of information you can grasp that there is a disconnection between the education sector and the labor market. Also, according to “Are recent
Many researchers have indicated that that we have an extensive large amount of highly college educated individuals who are force to working in jobs that are not related to their college major and jobs that are on a much lower level than their education and qualifications as well as a much lesser compensation. Over the past few years there have been employment problems and challenges for higher education graduates with the majority of the reason being due to the gap between the education sector and the labor market. This research study will discuss college graduates and potential employer perceptions about the challenges graduates encounter obtaining employment insight of the gap between the education sector and labor market.
Research Problem/ Significance of the Problem/ Literature Review
In today’s labor market we have a lot of highly college educated individual employed in positions beneath their qualified pay grade as well as below their education level with the some of the reason being due to the gap between the education sector and labor market.
According to “Why Are Recent College Graduates Underemployed?” by Richard Vedder, Christopher Denhart, and Jonathan Robe, “about five million college graduates are in jobs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says require less than a high-school education and about 48 percent of employed U.S. college graduates are in jobs that the (BLS) suggests requires less than a four-year college education” (Vedder, Denhart and Robe). With that in mind, according to “Recent college graduates in the U.S. labor force: Data from the current population survey” by Thomas Spreen, “every year we have thousands of colleges graduates across the United States enter the labor force with newly minted degrees and high hopes about their employment prospects”. With this bit of information you can grasp that there is a disconnection between the education sector and the labor market. Also, according to “Are recent