“…This approach would see the transition from university to work as one step in a complex, on going process and as a trajectory between two communities of practice. Moving into work is a transition from fitting into ways of being a student appropriately, itself negotiated in relation to the values and assumptions of the discipline/institution, towards an appropriate identity in a workplace, negotiated in relation to local values and expectations [7,11,16,24,25]. The degree of alignment between these two identities shapes whether it is a smooth or rather discontinuous experience of change on entering employment [11].…”