Five years on : Cinq ans plus tard : un sondage auprès des diplômés universitaires des Maritimes de 1999

Five Years On: a Survey of Class of 1999 Maritime University Graduates describes the Program orientation is the most consistent nature of the transitional experiences of graduates predictor of graduate outcomes and of the nature between postsecondary education and the work of the transition experience into the labour market. [...] Five years after graduation, • In 2004, among all graduates employed in 2001 and 2004, those living in the region 73% of graduates had jobs in management and/or earned $48,266, or 84% of the earnings requiring a university education, and they earned ($57,282) of university graduates living outside the Maritimes. [...] The main objective of the survey is to discover the nature of the transition 1999 Maritime university graduates have experienced between postsecondary education and the work force, and back again, taking into consideration their experience prior to enrolling in the program they graduated from in 1999. [...] The preceding discussion was based on descriptions of the skill level required of the occupation, as derived from the national occupation classification code structure; in this section, we explore graduates’ perceptions of the qualitative aspects of their jobs, including use of skills. [...] During the survey, graduates were asked a series of questions designed to characterize further the qualitative aspects of their job, including the extent to which they perceived that they were using skills acquired in their 1999 program, the relatedness of their job to their field of study and their level of job satisfaction.