Graduates' career orientations and strategies in corporate Greece

Personnel Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 393-411

  Mihail, Dimitrios M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Career development; Graduates; Greece

Indexed keywords

EID: 45349088242     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480810877570     Document Type: Article

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