Search results

This article reports findings from a longitudinal study into early career dynamics of a group of industry based learning (IBL) business students at an Australian university. These early career dynamics are motivators, expectations and early work experiences. A further study was undertaken to compare the job-finding experiences of IBL and non-IBL graduates. Early findings suggest that students who have completed an IBL program experience a quicker and smoother transition to work: the majority of graduate IBL students surveyed secured a graduate position within a third of the time of their non-IBL counterparts, were offered higher starting salaries and higher job responsibilities and either secured employment with their previous IBL employer or used a wider source of employer networks to gain a position than their non-IBL counterparts who generally relied on traditional job finding methods such as newspaper advertisements.