Future graduates of higher education in the face of study-employment transition

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to explore and understand the different ways in which the transition from university to professional life takes place, with students at the end of their university studies, through the analysis of the different psychological dimensions as well as the identification of perceived obstacles that are put in place during the transition period in a Tunisian context. To meet the objective of this study, we used a quantitative approach based on exploration, description, and analysis. We undertake our first approach of analysis of quantitative data from a survey by a first socio-demographic questionnaire that makes it possible to characterize our study population and a second Career Transition Inventory (CTI; Heppner, 1991) allowing us to expressways of perceiving the professional integration of future teachers and a specific analysis of psychological subjective processes in operation during a study employment transitional situation. The pre-determined sample of 550 students graduating from university and university courses leading to teaching. the results show, on the one hand, a tendency to passivity on the part of future graduate students in the face of transitional situations, on the other hand, they indicate that students manage to control their transition through tools adapted to the transitional situation. A minority of students proved to be ready and seem to be willing to their academic careers and to progress through change.