Burhanettin ZENGİN, Hakan ARSLAN, Pelin TUNA

Öğrencilerin Mezuniyet Sonrası İş Yaşamından Beklentileri

Bu çalışmanın amacı turizm eğitimi alan öğrencilerin mezuniyet sonrasında iş yaşamından beklentilerini tespit etmektir. Bu beklentilerin hangi faktörler etrafında geliştiği ve bu faktörlerin birbirleri ile ilişkilerinin incelememsi de bu çalışmanın ana hedeflerinden birisidir. Bu amaçla derinlemesine bilgi elde edebilmek amacıyla veri toplama araçlarından mülakat yöntemi kullanılmış ve bu kapsamda toplam 81 öğrenciden veri toplanmıştır. Nitel araştırma olarak planlanan bu çalışma ile elde edilen veriler MAXQDA nitel analiz programı ile içerik analizine tabi tutulmuştur. Bu kapsamda kelime bulutu, kod ilişkileri tarayıcısı, kodlu bölüm ağırlıkları, çakışan kodlar gibi analizler gerçekleştirilmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular sonucunda mezuniyet sonrası beklentileri açıklayan beş adet faktöre ulaşılmıştır. Bu faktörler sırasıyla kariyer, çalışma ortamı, eğitim, işveren ve maaş olarak tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca elde edilen bu beklenti faktörlerinin birbirleri ile ilişkileri de irdelenmiştir.

Students' Expectations from Post-Graduation Professional Life

The aim of this study is to determine the expectations of the students who receive tourism education from business life after graduation. One of the main objectives of this study is to examine the factors around which these expectations develop and the relations of these factors with each other. For this purpose, interviews method, one of the data collections tools, were used in order to obtain in-depth information and in this context, data were collected from a total of 81 students. The data obtained with this study, which was planned as qualitative research, were subjected to content analysis with the MAXQDA qualitative analysis program. In this context, analyzes such as word cloud, code relations scanner, coded section weights, overlapping codes were carried out. As a result of the findings obtained, five factors explaining the expectations after graduation were reached. These factors were determined as career, working environment, education, employer and salary, respectively. In addition, the relations of these expectation factors with each other were also examined

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