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This chapter is part of a book based on the findings of a comparative study of the relationship between higher education and employment three to four years after graduation. The Career after Higher Education: a European Research Study (CHEERS) questioned graduates in 11 European countries and Japan about their socio-biographic background, course of study, transition to employment, current employment situation, competences and job requirements, job satisfaction, and regional and international mobility. The author examines the role of early career education. Many graduates participate in continuing education during the first four years after graduation for a number of different reasons. The chapter provides an overview by country of all major participation activities in early career education and training by the graduates surveyed four years after graduation, excluding advanced degree programs or another degree at the same level in another field. The aim is to describe the major features of the continuing education of higher education graduates.