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The employment of university students is progressively becoming a widespread occurrence. Especially in business-related education students experience during the study process is often defined as a very important part of their development. The goal of the pilot study was to investigate the relationship between student employment characteristics and the perceived development of professional skills and career motivation.
64 survey responses were collected at the University of Latvia among full-time business education students. 79% of surveyed university students are actively engaged in the workforce, with 6% identifying as self-employed and 73% working in salaried positions. Only 5% had never worked before. The findings revealed that students generally perceive their jobs as only moderately supportive of professional development (mean 3.12) and report moderate career motivation (mean 3.0). There is a clear positive association between the perceived development of professional knowledge/skills and motivation for career development in the current job. This research was supported by a Marie Curie Staff Exchange within the Horizon Europe Programme Horizon RISE 101086415 project “PRELAB – Precarious Labour in Asia: Exploring Challenges and Solution to Labour Insecurity through Case-Study-Based Evidence from 8 Asian Countries”.
| Presenting author | Kristine Berzina-Cunska |
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