Graduate employers survey, Australia, 1989

The aim of this survey was to gather information on the demand for graduates among employers, focussing particularly on disciplines and skills required. Over 200 employers, who together employed more than 2500 graduates in 1988 and 1989, took part in the survey. Topics covered include: place of recruitment; numbers of recruits; qualifications of recruits and discipline studied; starting salary of recruits in each discipline and for each qualification; salary benefits given to recruits; attributes used to assess quality of graduates; availability of graduates in each discipline; predicted proportion of graduates from each discipline for 1990; time of year offers of employment are made for each discipline; recruiting procedures used and their effectiveness; training and for each discipline; recruiting procedures used and their effectiveness; training and development programs offered to new graduates; skills necessary for career progression; proportion of current graduate recruits expected to remain with employer; major reasons for resignations. Background variables include : total number of employees, type of organisation; present and future financial contributions to higher education of employees.