Channels for Searching the First Job By Graduates of Various Education Levels: Prevalence and Effectiveness

The paper studied the prevalence and effectiveness of choosing channels for searching for the first job by graduates of various levels of professional education. In accordance with the objectives of the study, a theoretical review of the literature on the problem of job search, as well as the effectiveness of various channels of job search, was performed. Further, we analyzed the features of selecting channels for searching for the first job for graduates of various levels of education, as well as the effectiveness of these channels. The empirical basis is the data from the study of graduates of educational institutions in Moscow with different levels of education, which was conducted by the Federal state statistics service in 2016. The total sample of the study included 36 thousand people. In accordance with the goals of this work, only respondents living in Moscow were selected from the total population, which amounted to 1,662 people. The analysis was carried out based on secondary data using methods of mathematical and statistical processing.