Analysing of employment expectations of social work students in terms of some variables

This study aims to analyze employment expectations of social work students in Turkey. To that general objective, the study tries to examine whether employment expectations of social work students meaningfully differentiate depending on gender, age, university, compatibilitywith the professionin terms ofpersonal characteristics and satisfaction of professional choice. The data was collected through “Employment Expectation Questionnaire” consisting of two sections, developed by researchers to determine the employment expectations of social work students. The first partof EEQ includes 13 open and close-ended questions related to demographic and personal information of social work students. The second partof EEQ includes 18 statements related to employment expectations of social workers on a 5-point Likert-type scale. EEQ was applied to 692 social work students from Anadolu UniversityFaculty of HealthSciences, Hacettepe University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Selcuk University Faculty of Health Sciences and Yalova University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, in 2014. The data analyze was used by item analysis and factor analysis. Consequently, the findings from this study revealed that the scale is valid and reliable. The level of employment expectation of social work students is found as very high. Besides these findings, social work students’ agreement level to employment expectation statements also varies in terms of age and each university that students attend.