When deciding whether to go to university or not, Slovak students care more about the proximity of the given institution to their homes than to how their chances of landing a job will improve as a result of their selection. This stems from the poll by AKO agency for McROY Slovakia HR and consulting company carried out on a sample of 600 students enrolled at 12 faculties across Slovakia.
“We're faced with a paradoxical situation on the Slovak market. On the one hand, there's a huge unemployment rate among graduates, while on the other, there are problems filling certain vacancies,” said McROY Group chief Lubos Sirota. “There's a surplus of graduates in humanities over those in technical branches,” he added. According to the survey, students at technical universities take their post-university job prospects more seriously than their peers from humanities. Forty-six percent of technical students claimed that they made their decision based on better prospects of finding a job later. At the same time, the future job was the most important thing only for 24 percent of those taking courses in the humanities. In addition, 14 percent of asked students said their choice of faculty was a coincidence, while the same was the case for only 5 percent of those studying technical subjects.
