Enhancing individual employability: The perspective of engineering graduates

Education and Training

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 540-551

  Nilsson, Staffan ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Competences; Employment; Graduates; Higher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956853354     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400911011068487     Document Type: Article

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