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Facilitators and inhibitors of international postgraduate students’ university-to-work transition

journal contribution
posted on 2019-10-01, 00:00 authored by W H Ng, Jane Menzies, Ambika Zutshi
© Australian Council for Educational Research 2019. Few studies have addressed the university-to-work transition experience of international postgraduate students. This paper contributed to the literature as it proposed a three-stage university-to-work transition framework including stages of finishing a degree, looking for a job, and working in a job. A qualitative research design with in-depth interviews was used to explore the university-to-work transition experience of eight international postgraduate students who were working full time in Australia. The international postgraduate students faced considerable stress during the first two stages. They used an array of job search strategies including networking, internships, and career workshops at university, and secured employment through networking and recommendation rather than by formal methods because they did not have permanent work visas. International postgraduate students were excited and relieved when they found a job, but faced stress when they transitioned into the workplace, and were inhibited by a lack of proper induction and their inadequate business communication skills, but were assisted through mentoring.

History

Journal

Australian journal of career development

Volume

28

Issue

3

Pagination

186 - 196

Publisher

Sage Publications

Location

London, Eng.

eISSN

2200-6974

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article

Copyright notice

2019, Australian Council for Educational Research