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Employer Attractiveness : A quantitative study of preferences among swedish civil engineering students regarding future employers

The purpose of this thesis is to measure the importance of different factors that contribute to employer attractiveness among students. Further, its purpose is to measure how those same students perceive a case company, Ramböll, relating to those same factors. The method used to satisfy this purpose is a quantitative survey among Swedish civil engineering students at three Swedish universities, Uppsala Tekniska Högskola, Luleå Tekniska Högskola and Chalmers Tekniska Högskola. The survey got a response rate of 19% and the results show that the majority of the respondents think that factors such as learning opportunities, self development and independence are most important for employer attractiveness. Further, the respondents perceives Ramböll as a company that offers challenging and interesting tasks, but does not offer high salaries and is not a high status organisation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-8777
Date January 2008
CreatorsLindgren, Erik, Skarped, Michael
PublisherUppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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