A conceptual framework suggests that employers will favor applicants from specific employment channels (job search techniques) depending on the qualifications sought. Logistic regression was used to analyze the responses of 1012 baccalaureate graduates to a survey 1 month after graduation. The results support the proposition t h a t alternative search techniques have differential effects depending on the qualifications offered. All search techniques except 1 revealed interaction effects, favoring or limiting graduates with specific characteristics such as appropriate specialization and higher ability. Direct contact with employers and early initiation of search contributed directly to initial baccalaureate-level employment.As Spokane and Hawks (1990) described it in 1990, research on the transition to work for college graduates remains, with the broader literature on job search, "perhaps the most understudied area in contemporary career development" (p. 11 1). The broad dimensions of job search have been identified, but only a few areas of investigation are well enough developed to support major generahzations and principles regarding job seeking. Furthermore, the results to date suggest that various types of search techniques may well have different effects, depending on differential applicant characteristics.

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Brisbane grew from a small frontier hamlet in 1840 into a metropolis of more than 250,000 inhabitants by 1925. As this 85 year period drew to a close the city possessed, in some measure, all the attributes of a 'great city': size, both in terms of area and population ; an economic significance demonstrated by commercial, financial and manufacturing dominance; provincial cultural leadership : and political importance.l But it also exhibited most of the problems characteristic of the emergent metropolitan areas of the world-promiscuous urban expansion ; inappropriate civic organization; an undesirable distribution of local functions : unrealistic municipal finances: and above all, the fragmentation of metropolitan government. Each of these problems was rooted in the history of the city and its government. Their combined effect was to make the metropolitan administrative system quite unsuited to its task.The rapid growth of Brisbane, and particularly its cyclical character, would have created serious municipal problems under ideal conditions, but in a context where frontier and laissez faire attitudes persisted and the local authorities lacked both the power and funds needed to provide an environment appropriate to urban life, it was inevitable that the expansion of the city should become unruly and prejudicial to effective local government. Development was not controlled in any real way before 1885 and was only marginally controlled thereafter. It was left, for the most part, to a multiplicity of private individuals and firms. Consequently, the expansion of the city was both capricious and chaotic.In the early years, while the limitations of public transport continued to place a premium on locations close to the heart of the city, urban development largely consisted of relatively 'high density' housing, which in practice often meant small, flimsy, wooden buildings on tiny allotments served by narrow and winding streets2 Thus, while the costs of providing municipal services were kept down, excessive subdivision of land and jerry-built houses created health and fire hazards and involved the Brisbane Council in vexing problems of street construction and maintenance. The progressive completion of the suburban railway system after 1875 and the construction and extension of the tramways from 1886 onwards also had important implications for municipal organisation and competence because it removed the limitations on metropolitan travel inherent in public transport during the 'horse and buggy age', thus facilitating the movement of the populace into the suburbs. 1W. A. Robsoii (ed.), Great Cities of the World (London: 1954) pp. 25-27. eOnly those who could afford vehicles built in the 'suburbs' and many of these chose rather the more salubrious sites within the municipality. 34

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