Orientation and transition into university courses”

Over the last decade, the transition from education to employment has become increasingly difficult, long and uncertain, so that legislators have been forced to consider new means of access to facilitate the entry of young people into working life. In addition, a certain discrepancy between employability and training received (Benadusi, 2001) as well as situations of entrapment in the short to medium term which are likely to result in dead-end jobs from which it is difficult to escape can be observed (Consoli, Follis, 2001). This is especially true in a country like Italy where social mobility is blocked more than elsewhere. In an incoming and outgoing labor market which has become more and more flexible and is characterized by towering peaks of unemployment, especially among the young, these problems are aggravated more and more