A Study of Career and Employment Outcomes of Highlevel Athletic Graduates from Regular Institutions of Higher Education of East China Region
A study of the career and employment outcomes of high-level athletic graduates from 9 regular higher educational institutions in east China region. 491 of students and graduates participated in the study. By using questionnaire, data were collected and showing that more than 80％ of these high-level athletic graduates are working in an area unrelated to their sports specialty. Among them, none are employed by government agency, and nearly 50％ of them are employed by state-owned enterprises, they demonstrated high competences to work in state-owned enterprises during their half years employment. Among all these working graduates, 50％ of these graduates found their job using resource from their parents, relatives and friends. The result indicates that these athletic graduates have higher than average general quality and adaptability to their jobs. But they also show lower than average English and Computer skills, which are drawbacks of their workplace success. Current students expect higher income than current graduates actual average income. However, theres no significant geographical difference between current students expectation and graduates workplace. 70％ of these current high athletic graduates are working in east China regions, no graduates is working in west-north China regions. While making the choice or decision of a job, graduates think employers development space is more important than their personal development spaces, while current students valued personal development spaces as their most important factor of job choice.
High-level athletes regular higher educational institution employment status
JIANG Liping QIN Haiquan
Department of physical education, Tongji University, Shanghai China, 200092
国际会议
2010 International Symposium--Sports Science and Engineering(2010国际体育科学与体育工程学术会议)
福州
英文
569-573
2010-12-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）