DETERMINANTS STARTING PROFESSIONAL GRADUATES OF HIGHER EDUCATION - ANALYSIS AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL

The transition process between education and the labor market depends mainly on the education of graduates as well as on their remaining career capitals. In the article, we analyze the professional career paths of graduates of first and second cycle studies as well as uniform Master studies at the University of Rzeszów. The purpose of this article is to obtain information allowing to adapt courses of study and education programs to the current needs of the labor market. In the first part, the theories of the labor market are briefly characterized. Next, the conditions of the first employment were presented in the light of surveys on the career fate of graduates of the University of Rzeszów. The whole closes the summary of the deliberations.