... Mauritius Australia Graduates Travel Tourism © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Ian Phau can be contacted at: ian.phau@cbs.curtin.edu.au In summary, this has provided a better understanding for constructs of information sources, perceived destination image and destination choice...

...Adam Weaver Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how recent graduates of a university's tourism management programme in New Zealand perceive job quality in the tourism industry. Design/methodology/approach Semi‐structured interviews are used to examine graduates' assessments...

... are likely to struggle in their quest for placement after graduation and it is problematic to rely only on industry efforts for placement. As a result, many hospitality programs have developed their own career and placement services to assist their students in job‐searching efforts. The quality level...

...Norma D'Annunzio‐Green; Gill Maxwell; Sandra Watson; Bernadette Scott; Sheetal Revis Purpose This paper aims to provide a selective bibliographic review of developments in career management and in particular, notions of talent from both an organizational and hospitality graduate perspective...

...Sinéad O'Leary; Jim Deegan Purpose The aim of this paper is to present longitudinal data regarding the career progression of Irish tourism and hospitality management graduates. Design/methodology/approach A survey instrument was designed to incorporate questions relating to current...

...Mike Raybould; Hugh Wilkins Purpose This paper sets out to report on research that investigated hospitality managers' expectations of graduate skills and compared those expectations with student perceptions of what hospitality managers value. Design/methodology/approach The research adopted...

... are identified; major stakeholder views are offered and the ensuing discussion of graduate profiles was organised into three main scenarios: professional developers, portfolio strategists and pragmatic mavericks. The scenarios identify varying approaches for graduates, higher education institutions and employers...

... standards of graduateness which require theoretical and critical evaluation as well as the demonstration of practical and organisational skills, they need to be systematic about their understanding of students’ learning preferences. Results from the pilot study reported on in this paper suggest...

...Tom Baum This article considers the very important issue of the expectations that employers in the hotel sector hold regarding graduate entrants. The article reports on a study in the UK which replicates and compares findings with a similar survey in the USA – 36 key competencies were rated by 118...

...Amanda J. West; Stephanie M. Jameson The relationship between supervised work experience and hospitality graduate employment is examined. Research which indicates that hospitality employers must consider supervised work experience as a key factor influencing graduates′ first destinations...