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Perceptions Of Graduate Deans And Graduate Students About Career Knowledge And Opportunities, Cathy Wendler
Perceptions Of Graduate Deans And Graduate Students About Career Knowledge And Opportunities, Cathy Wendler
NERA Conference Proceedings 2013
Little is known about what graduate students know about career options or how they gain this knowledge. In this study we examined responses of graduate deans and graduate students regarding the level of knowledge students have about career options before, during, and following graduate school.Results indicate that, in general, graduate deans believe students have limited knowledge of career options. Students report that they receive insufficient, unhelpful, and inaccurate information about possible careers. In addition, the source of career information and types of careers encouraged by faculty are somewhat different depending upon students’ gender, race/ethnicity, and field of study.