Integration Of Graduates On The Labor Market, Objective Of Quality Management In Universities

Quality expresses the set of characteristics of a service that allow it to meet the needs, both explicitly and implicitly. The identification of the future students, based on the quality criteria imposed by each university, the completion of an ample qualitative educational process and finally having graduates who meet the quality requirements, represents for all universities, objectives of quality management. By fulfilling them, it should be possible to correlate the educational offer with the requirements of the labor market. In order to reduce or even avoid the difficulties in identifying and occupying a job in the graduated field, it is necessary a collaboration of all the interested parties, in order to identify solutions. For this, it is considered appropriate to maintain a close link between universities and the business environment, holding regular meetings, public consultations, in order to identify existing problems and solutions for the future. This paper represents a plea in favor of integrating the optimization of the insertion of graduates on the labor market among the major, strategic objectives of quality management in universities.