Predictive model for the identification of factors associated with the search time of the first job in university graduates

Some higher education programs in Colombia do not know if the sociocultural variables of their recent graduates are influential in the time it takes to get their first job. This article shows the results in the use of automatic techniques of data extraction for the predictive analysis of the time that a graduate takes to get his first job oriented to graduates of Systems Engineering of the University of Caldas in last five years. For its development, data analysis routines were used using the minimal description length algorithm, establishing that the representative factors that allow predicting the satisfactory search time of the first job are the level of education of the mother, the academic performance and the factor of income. The study contrasts the original objective value with the prediction value for 135 records where it is concluded that the graduates have a performance of 3 between 1 and 5, the latter being the ideal performance, with a level of education of their mother corresponding to "Primary Complete "whose income factor is" Your skills and abilities ", is projected to get your first job in" Less than 3 months ", with 63% certainty.