The transition from the educational system to the labor market is an important life transition, which presents a big step towards the transition to adulthood for young individuals. The transition to adulthood in traditional societies was relatively linear – upon the completion of an education, individuals got a job, and afterwards created their own family. Today, the transition to adulthood is pluralized, fragmentized, and characterized by the process of individualization. Young individuals represent a vulnerable group in the labor market, i.e., the entrance for young graduates into the labor market is insecure. The labor market is also insecure when it comes to social science graduates, as they represent the largest group of unemployed graduates. Generally, the numbers of unemployed young individuals have decreased in the past years. However, these numbers have started to increase in the light of the coronavirus that has characterized the year 2020 so far. The insecurity of the labor market is one of the main concerns of the students that I have interviewed for this master thesis. Employing qualitative methodology, I conducted ten interviews with students of sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences. My goal was to determine student expectations regarding transition to the labor market. My results demonstrate that young individuals are aware of the labor market situation for social science graduates. They expect and fear uncertain employments, often in the form of non-permanent contracts. They also express fear in that the knowledge they have gained will not be sufficient for appropriate employment, which would mean that they would have to accept a job that is outside the scope of their field of studies.
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