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 actor