Abstract:

The present paper addresses the issue of the incorporation of the University graduate from Mexico to the world of work, this topic has today acquired relevance due to the high rate of unemployment of graduates, according to the National Institute of statistics and geography (INEGI) in 2013, four of every 10 unemployed Mexicans had higher education. In addition to unemployment, a study commissioned by the National Association of universities and institutions of higher education (ANUIES), on the labour market of professionals in the Decade of 1990-2000, found that nearly two thirds of Mexican professionals are employed in posts in accordance with the profession, which is likely to apply knowledge and skills acquired in the institutions of higher education and that the other group could be in positions that do not they require higher education (ANUIES, 2003). Previous data show us that it is not guarantee to have higher education to find employment. Mexico must raise its productivity and the ability of the education system to foster the graduates the skills demanded by the labour market. This paper covers aspects that contribute to the problem of the inclusion, such as the saturation of professionals in the city, the little relevance of races, little fruitful relationship with companies that has been an important factor in the approach to the generation of the third mission in the universities and finally become proposals that can serve to improve the proper inclusion in the workforce by university graduates of Mexico and as a result reduce the high rate of unemployment and the gap between the graduate and the world of work.

Keywords:

Businesses, graduates, higher education, inclusion, labour market, unemployment.