From dot-edu to dot-com: Predictors of college students’ job and career information seeking online

Sociological Focus

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-102

  Puckett, Cassidy ^a   Hargittai, Eszter ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85010538944     PISSN: 00380237     EISSN: 21621128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2012.630914     Document Type: Article

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