JOB PLACEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION. THE LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

The relationships between universities and the working world are key elements in the higher education debate. This work analyzes the aspects that explain job placement for university graduates in Latin America, the links between higher education and the labor market. At first, two close terms regarding this topic are examined, job placement and employability, to then continue with the description and validation of reports that have been the starting point for the development of this kind of study on an international level, with the objective of obtaining relevant aspects that provide guidelines for the subject matter for universities. This work uses the descriptive methodology of content analysis in order to extract the most significant aspects, to systematize them, and to acquire a broad vision of what occurs in this field on a higher education level in Latin America.