Employability Status of Students in The Graduate School of ESSU Guiuan
Employability Status of Students in The Graduate School of ESSU Guiuan
Abstract
The researchers have initiated and conducted this tracer study to understand how well Eastern Samar State
University's Guiuan campus has achieved its vision, mission, and goals reflected in the graduate programs'
competencies. This study determines the respondents' employment status and job level before and after obtaining
their master's degree. There is a total of 78 graduates across the five programs from 2017 – 2018 to 2019–2020.
However, only 62 were traced and participated. A quantitative design and descriptive survey were employed,
covering the respondents' demographic profile, employment status, and job level before and after obtaining their
master's degree at Eastern Samar State University, Guiuan Campus. This reveal that most of the respondents
from the MAED – EM, MAED – KE, MAM, MSHM – HRM, and MAIT programs are single and live in Guiuan.
Furthermore, the respondent's employment status shows that most graduates are already employed and only 3% of
the respondents work as part-timers or self-employed. There was a significant change in the respondents' job level
after they obtained a master's degree. With this, 84% of the respondents work as professional and technical
supervisors, while 13% work as managers and executives. Lastly, only 3% of the respondents work in clerical or
rank positions. It was recommended that the graduate school must conduct benchmarking to other universities to
strengthen its curriculum in line with the policies and guidelines of the Commission on Higher Education and
conduct programs that will help increase the number of enrollees and the number of graduates. Also, partnerships
and collaborations must be set up with government or non-government agencies locally or internationally.
addresses the employment status of the respondents, Table 2 presents the location, or where the respondents
and the third section addresses the competencies and live, and It can be observed that most or 55% of
values that the respondents acquire during their respondents are from Guiuan, Eastern, while 45% are
university stay that are helpful to their employment.A from outside Guiuan. It shows that more professionals
communication letter was given to the respondents to pursuing advanced education are from Guiuan, Eastern
gather the needed data, asking for their permission to Samar.
survey social media platforms such as Messenger and
Table 3. Reasons for Pursuing Advanced Studies
email. In administering the survey questionnaire, the
researchers distributed the Google Form to the
respondents and were given time to respond to avoid
distraction during their working hours. After the
survey questionnaires were filled out and submitted
through Google Forms, the data gathered was tallied,
analyzed, and interpreted using the mean, frequency,
and percentage.
Table 3 shows the reasons of the respondents in
pursuing advanced education. It is very clear in the
Results and Discussion table that majority of the respondents answers both
professional growth and promotion as their reason in
pursuing advanced education or obtaining master’s
The data in the succeeding tables manifest the degree. On the other hand, only 13 % of the
demographic profile of the former students of the respondents’ answers promotion alone is the reason
Graduates School at Eastern Samar State University, why they pursue advanced education and another 13%
Guiuan Campus – in terms of civil status, sex, location or 8 of the respondents answers that professional
of residences, and reasons for Pursuing Advance growth alone is the reason in pursuing advanced
Studies education.
Table 1. Civil status of the Respondents Employment of the Respondents
Table 2. Location of Residences of the Respondents Table 4 shows the present employment of the
respondents, and it can be seen in the table that the
majority of the respondents are regular or full-time
employees in their related fields of specialization. At the
same time, only 3% of the respondents are self-
employed. Further, another 3% of the respondents have
a part-time job or work in unrelated fields of
specialization.
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