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FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE CAREER PATH AND CAREER SATISFACTION OF A PHARMACY GRADUATE IN ROMANIA

DRAGOȘ FLORIAN CIOLAN 1, CĂTĂLINA LILIANA ANDREI 2*, ANDREEA MIRICĂ 3,
IONELA ROXANA GLĂVAN 3 , DOINA DRĂGĂNESCU 4, DUMITRU LUPULIASA 1, RĂZVAN
MIHAI DOBRESCU 5, FLAVIAN ȘTEFAN RĂDULESCU 1

1“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Centre for Drug Sciences (CedS), Bucharest, Romania
2 “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Cardiology and Thoracic Pathology, Bucharest,
Romania
3 Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics, Statistics and Econometrics Department, Bucharest, Romania
4 “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Physics and Informatics, Bucharest,
Romania
5 University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Business Engineering and Management, Economics Department, Bucharest, Romania

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Career and job satisfaction remain conspicuous factors both for managers and employees, essential for recruitment, retention and the overall organization’s productivity and success. To investigate the factors that influence the career and job satisfaction among the community of pharmacy graduates, a questionnaire was conceived. The sample includes 340 respondents which filled the questionnaire between mid-February 2021 and mid-March 2021. The main objective of the present research was to investigate the degree of job satisfaction of Romanian pharmacy graduates and the factors that are associated with it. Logistic regression analysis was performed based on the questionnaire dataset. The obtained results indicate that recent graduates most probably pursue residency and have a job in the same time. Despite that, the extent postgraduate studies correspond to the job description as well as higher monthly income increases the likelihood a person is satisfied with job.