Factors involved in the employment location of UNAD ECACEN ZOOC graduates

Access to employment is one of the factors that occupies the different nations to a greater extent due to the mismatch between labor demand and the supply of competent personnel, a matter that is directly related to the productivity of the countries and that concerns each individual that needs to generate income for their subsistence, a fact that impacts on the population of recent graduates from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), who are subjected to the difficult demands of a highly competitive world of work, given that their lack of professional experience constitutes a detractor at the time of being chosen in a selection process, this matter is part of this quantitative study in which information has been consulted through the application of a survey. The research of a quantitative and exploratory nature sought to know the opinions of graduates on aspects present when seeking employment, which have to do, in part, with the efforts of the university and with the willingness of the productive sector to hire recent graduates of the University National Open and Distance (UNAD) at the School of Administrative, Accounting, Economic and Business Sciences (ECACEN) of the Western Zone (ZOCC); The instrument was applied in November 2020 to a population of 1,164 ZOCC graduates with a sample of 289 graduates, and a total of 324 responses were obtained.