Determinants of higher education students' self-perceived employability/Odrednice percipirane zaposljivosti studenata

Self-perceived employability denotes how individuals view their possibilities of attaining sustainable employment in relation with their qualifications. Thus, employability perceptions hold invaluable importance when one is presented with job insecurity and also help form coping strategies. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between self-perceived employability, objective employability and personality dispositions. We used a convenience sample of students (N=230) from nine different faculty studies at the University of Zagreb. Objective employability was defined by "Recommendations for education enrollment and scholarship policy" (HZZ, 2013). Students participated via on-line survey by giving responses on self-perceived employability and personality disposition scales (core self-evaluations, locus of control, positive and negative affect). The analysis demonstrated that objective employability had the biggest account for variance explanation of self-perceived employability. Despite significant correlations displayed between all personality dispositions (except for locus of control) and self-perceived employability, only the core self-evaluations disposition accounted for the significant unique contribution to self-perceived employability variance, besides objective employability. Keywords: self-perceived employability, objective employability, personality dispositions Percipirana zaposljivost oznacuje pojedincevu percepciju vlastite mogucnosti ostvarenja odrziva zaposlenja, koje je u skladu s postignutom razinom kvalificiranosti, odnosno strucnom spremom. Ona je vazna za odredivanje slijeda tranzicija vezanih uz posao te za formiranje strategija nosenja s nestabilnosti posla. Cilj je ovog istrazivanja bio ispitati odnos percipirane zaposljivosti studenata s objektivnom zaposljivosti nakon zavrsetka odredenoga studija i nekim osobinama licnosti. U istrazivanju je sudjelovao prigodan uzorak studenata (N = 230) s devet studija Sveucilista u Zagrebu. Objektivna zaposljivost nakon zavrsetka studija odredena je na temelju "Preporuka za obrazovnu upisnu politiku i politiku stipendiranja" (HZZ, 2013). Svi sudionici ispunili su on-line upitnike kojima su mjerene osobine licnosti (temeljna samoevaluacija, lokus kontrole, pozitivan i negativan afekt) te percipirana zaposljivost. Provedene analize pokazale su da objektivna zaposljivost najvise pridonosi objasnjenju varijance percipirane zaposljivosti. lako su sve osobine licnosti (osim lokusa kontro