dc.contributor.author	Hamel, John Carel	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Wiswell, Albert K.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Price, James	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	McKeen, Ronald L.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Cline, Marvin Gerald	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Boucouvalas, Marcie	en
dc.contributor.department	Adult and Continuing Education	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-14T20:21:40Z	en
dc.date.adate	1998-04-30	en
dc.date.available	2014-03-14T20:21:40Z	en
dc.date.issued	1998-04-15	en
dc.date.rdate	1998-04-30	en
dc.date.sdate	1998-04-15	en
dc.description.abstract	Transition from the college classroom to the workplace requires certain job knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs). How and where the New Employee acquires these KSAs is mired in the transition between education and the world-of-work. This dissertation informs the college-to-work transition process through the experiences of college graduate liberal arts majors and of those responsible for integrating the new employees into the organization. Three new employees and two managers working on information technology products and services in a major corporation were interviewed. A grounded theory approach was used to discover patterns in the data. This method allowed the researcher to inform the complexity of the college-to-work transition process. The researcher discovered a naturally evolving process dominated by informal learning that new employees used to learn about the culture and the specific job skills need in the corporation. In many ways, the participants had evolved a process similar to the apprenticeship system of the middle ages.	en
dc.description.degree	Ed. D.	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-32298-134558	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-32298-134558/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30421	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.haspart	file1.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	dis2.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	dis3.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	file4.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	dis5.pdf	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Information Technology	en
dc.subject	College-to-Work Transition	en
dc.subject	Temporary Employment Services	en
dc.subject	Liberal Arts Graduates	en
dc.title	The College-to-Work Transition Through Temporary Employment Services: A Case Study in an Information Technology Company	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Adult and Continuing Education	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	doctoral	en
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Education	en

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