الإبتكار والتنمية الصناعية
Volume 1, Numéro 1, Pages 1-16
2018-12-30

Developing Skills Via Practical Training: The Algerian Business Students’ Experience

Authors : Omar Djessas .

Abstract

This study aims to identify acquisition extent of important set of skills during a period of practical training within an Algerian master degree in business. A history of work placement within higher education, reasons for going to university and benefits of this period in developing skillsare discussed in this paper. A questionnaire-based survey was administrated to a sample (N=230) of master students in faculty of economics, commerce and management sciences at Farhat Abbas University Setif 1, during a period of practical training in different places of work. As a result, both of the students’ males and females in three departments agreed that they were effective in developing a set of skills, but they order some of it differently and regarded career reasons as the most important. In the end; getting ‘real life’ experience was considered as the main benefit of a work placement by the majority of respondents.

Keywords

Practical training; skills; career reasons; acquisition of skills; work placement.