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This working paper was drafted by Anthony Mann, Jonathan Diaz and Sara Zapata Posada. The authors would like to thank the Community of Madrid for their engagement through the development and confirmation of the paper, Dongwook Choi for providing management and editorial support, Rodolfo Ilizaliturri for his feedback through the drafting process and Andreas Schleicher for his guidance. This working paper was realised by the Career Readiness team at the OECD with the support of JPMorganChase. The views expressed in this report should not be taken to reflect the official position of the OECD member countries, JPMorganChase or any of its affiliates.
This paper reports the results of a survey of young adults aged 19-26 who were educated in the Community of Madrid, Spain. The study asks users of career guidance systems within secondary education to share perspectives on their usefulness from the vantage point of the labour market participation. The study finds that overwhelmingly respondents who participated in career development activities as teenagers found them to be useful to their post-secondary transitions with many stating that they were very useful. They wished however that they had received more support from their schools, especially with regard to practical activities related to integration into the working world. Analysis finds many strong relationships between participation in career development and the quality of transitions. It is less likely for young adults who engaged more deeply in career development as teenagers to report that they were Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) at the time of the survey and they expressed more positive attitudes about their transitions and the value of the support received from their schools.
Career Readiness in Madrid (Spain): a user perspective
This paper presents results from a survey of 1 015 young adults, aged between 19 and 26, who attended secondary education within the Community of Madrid. The survey was completed during the summer of 2024. The survey explores the perspectives of users of career development systems delivered by secondary education institutions within the Community. Such user surveys have been previously been undertaken in the United Kingdom (Jones, Mann and Morris, 2015711; Kashefpakdel and Percy, 20222]; Kashefpakdel et al., 201873); Moote et al., 20244; Mann et al., 20175); Mann and Percy,...