Graduate Destination Survey 2012

South Africa, 2012

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Q3.4.6: What was the primary method of finding the job you had on the 1st of Sep (q3_4_6)

Data file: gds-2012-20130605

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 219

loc_end_pos: 220

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 18

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	A holiday job or internship gave me access to this job
2	Through help of a lecturer
3	Through my university's career office
4	I initially offered to work for free
5	I had to work off a bursary I got from my employer
6	I simply sent in my CV or asked for work
7	I responded to a job ad in the printed media
8	I responded to a job ad on an employment website
9	I responded to a job ad on a company website
10	I responded to a job ad in the Government Gazette
11	I placed ads or flyers advertising my services on notice boards or in post-boxes
12	I walked from door-to-door
13	Through one of the Department of Labour's employment centres
14	Through a recruitment agency or labour broker
15	Through family or friends
16	Through a social network
17	I was headhunted or asked to apply for the job
18	N/A - I was promoted internally to this position

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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