The transition between university and work. Young adults looking for themselves

The paper looks at the transition from university to
work place as an educational moment, with
repercussions on the creation of personal and social
identity. It is an important opportunity for learning,
change, reflexivity and human devepolment, despite
the presence of numerous critical factors. Hence the
need, for the young adult looking for the first job, to
develop the right awareness to deal with uncertainties,
choices and inconveniences related to this passage of
individual history and, for sector studies and university
system, to consider more carefully the specificities of
this phase. The paper also presents in summary the
results of an exploratory survey on the transition, to
deepen some trends, and outlines the vocational
training tasks and the responsibilities of university
teaching management to bring the work, and its
practices, increasingly at the center of the attention of
institutional, territorial and political actors