A munkaerőpiaci esélyeket meghatározó kompetenciák és értékek a pályaorientáció folyamatában
Competences and values in the career choice process

The results of a multi-aspect study on secondary school students in an industrially developed region

Summary/Abstract: Career choices are a tool of integration and social mobility. Successful career choices support the reduction of unequal opportunities among disadvantaged young people. For this reason studying and analysing secondary school students’ personal competences and their social and work-related values is indispensable. We approach the development of labour market competences among secondary school students during career orientation via the analysis of the individual, cultural and social background of the career choice. For the research we chose a thriving, industrially developed region of Hungary, where good opportunities for study and employment are available for young people entering the job market. In the research the competence analysis of the students took place with the help of commonly used career orientation questionnaires, tests and psycho-diagnostic scale. Altogether 599 students were involved in the survey in the 2003/2004 academic year and we could use 317–424 valid test results for the research. Based on the previous results a repeat survey was carried out in the 2014/2015 academic year involving 163 students from 1 class of each school. The participating schools were grammar schools and vocational schools maintained by foundation, state or church (one of each for both types of school). Also, two vocational grammar schools with different maintenance principles participated. The research found significant differences in labour market related competences among the students, which are most marked between programmes offering or not offering the graduation examination, and which create a gap in terms of integration and equal opportunities.

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