At work and towords work: propensions, expectations and reality This essay sets out to analyse how employment expectations, expressed by graduates at the moment they received their university degree, are realised and/or modified one and three years after graduation. In particular, the analysis concerns the realisation at work of the propensities expressed at graduation for those who were working; on the other hand, for those who stated that they were jobseekers, the possible changes in their work preferences were examined. In order to determine their principal tendencies, the various aspects of the work
which was found or sought were then compared with what was declared at the moment of graduation as well as with appropriate in-depth analyses concerning, for example, gender differences and differences in fields of study and residence.