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Carpenter, Darrell; Young, Diana K.; McLeod, Alexander; Maasberg, Michele – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2018
The IT industry struggles to attract qualified talent despite an exceptional outlook in terms of both job availability and compensation. Similarly, post-secondary academic institutions report difficulties recruiting students for IT majors. One potential reason for this is that current career counseling practices do not adequately convey relevant…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Career Counseling, Prediction, Models
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Neuenschwander, Markus P.; Hofmann, Jan; Jüttler, Andreas; Schumann, Stephan – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2018
Context: Following the social cognitive career theory of Lent, Brown, and Hackett (1994), the current study examines the effect of role models' professions and practical internship experiences on the choice of professional environment independent of professional interests. Embedded in the Swiss context with its strong vocational training system,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Role Models, Internship Programs
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Tran, Xuan; Williams, Janae; Mitre, Bridget; Walker, Victoria; Carter, Kala – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop a model of motives and career choice based on learning styles in order to apply the model in teaching business. Although the relationship between learning and McClelland's (1961) three motives (achievement, affiliation, and power) as confirmed that motives are "learned," little research…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Career Choice, Models, Teaching Methods
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Vock, Miriam; Koller, Olaf; Nagy, Gabriel – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: Vocational interests play a central role in the vocational decision-making process and are decisive for the later job satisfaction and vocational success. Based on Ackerman's (1996) notion of "trait complexes," specific interest profiles of gifted high-school graduates can be expected. Aims: Vocational interests of gifted and…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Gifted, Profiles, High School Graduates
Lunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – 1975
Analyses of interscale relations in 235 college students for the Vocational Preference Inventory and Vocational Interest Inventory, based on interest models of Holland and Roe respectively, suggest that the two-dimensional, circular configuration of occupations of personality types may be an oversimplification which impedes the understanding of…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Correlation, Factor Structure
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Rounds, James B., Jr.; And Others – 1979
Using a multidimensional scaling procedure, this study examined the fit of Holland's RIASEC hexagon model to the internal relationships among the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) General Occupational Theme scales. SCII intercorrelation matrices for both sexes as reported in the SCII Manual were submitted, separately for each sex, to…
Descriptors: Females, Goodness of Fit, Interest Inventories, Males