Factors affecting professional job mastery: Quality of study or work experience?

Quality in Higher Education

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 233-248

  Aamodt, Per Olaf ^a   Havnes, Anton ^b  

^a OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Employability; Job mastery; Learning outcomes; On the job training

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249114585     PISSN: 13538322     EISSN: 14701081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13538320802507539     Document Type: Article

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