Study regarding the quality improvement of the higher education system through customized career counselling and orientation services

摘要

The present paper aims to identify the representations of students regarding their future career, at the end of their first study year, by measuring the degree of satisfaction regarding the way in which the educational process (teaching-learning-evaluation axis) took place and by analysing their beliefs regarding the place and importance of the engineering profession on the labour market, in order to customize career counselling and orientation services. All these elements are revealed afterwards in the form of academic results obtained by students and their insertion rate into the labour market after graduation, representing a relevant feedback regarding the quality of the education process. As research method we have used the survey-based research, on a lot of 100 students from the first study year from the Faculty of IMST (Engineering and Management of Technological Systems). The data was processed using the IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) Software Suite and the result emphasizes a significant percentage of positive beliefs regarding the profession and one's own professional route.