Matching skills and jobs: Experience of employees in Romania

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Magdalena Velciu

Abstract

In the actual challenging environment, progress and growth are more than an economic issue involving human capital, i.e., development of resources with knowledge, skills and competences. The offer and demand of the workforce are not sufficient to make progress; hence a concept is needed to bring together skills, competencies, jobs and productivity that drive economic growth. In this article, job mismatch has been dealt as a qualitative imbalance that occurs when the characteristics of the workers do not directly correlate with the work requirements. The results of a survey among higher educated adult employees in Romania are presented. Considering the self-evaluation of having a job, it is found that 79.2% match well with educational qualification and 20.8% do not match. It is important to improve this mismatch and set a equilibrium between the education offered to develop the resources and occupational requirements, emerging with changing business needs.

Keywords: Job–education mismatch, higher education employees, work performance

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