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Results show that mobile students—particularly those who graduated abroad— more often than nonmobile students search for and gain work experience abroad.
In turn, professional work experience can be somewhat substituted by study abroad experience, when employers consider hiring.
Study abroad for a full year, host university course enrollment, internship participation, and host family living arrangements are all program factors that correlate strongly with future international work.
Studying abroad enhances the intercultural competencies of American students, but that enhancement strategy may be seen as an obstacle to those in business and technical fields who follow a tight curriculum and work to cover expenses.
The type of university and field of studies work as strong predictors for students’ desired move abroad.
Importantly, this paper argues that the drivers to work placement mobility are different to the motivations to study abroad.
Utilizing a sample of 518 German business students we show that networks abroad have a direct influence on the intention to work abroad, while cultural intelligence fully mediates the relationship between language skills as well as international experience and the intention to work abroad.