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Jama, Kaisa-Mari; Tynjälä, Päivi; Aarto-Pesonen, Leena; Malinen, Anita; Hämäläinen, Raija – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
Previous research has revealed the challenges of sports graduates. Of particular concern is the question of how sports graduates navigate these difficulties in the job market. This study sought to understand the modern careers of sports graduates by describing different career story models among sports degree graduates. Life story data collection…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, College Graduates, Labor Market
Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya; Aminath Riyaz; Shaheen Majid; Nirmal Prabu – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2022
Due to many factors, particularly developments in technology, LIS professionals need to continuously refresh and upgrade their knowledge and skills through participation in continuing professional development (CPD) activities. The objective of this pilot study was to understand LIS employees' perceptions, motivation, assessment, and preference for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Librarian Attitudes, Capacity Building, Professional Continuing Education
Anatoliyevna Repkina, Yulia; Vladimirovich Lukashenko, Dmitry; Evgenievna Nikolashkina, Violeta; Alekseevna Egorova, Liudmila; Georgiyevna Sergeeva, Marina – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
The priority goal of modernizing the Russian education system is to ensure a high quality of knowledge. The psychological and counseling service is capable of implementing many qualitative changes in the higher education system. The development of the psychological and counseling service is due to its role in the modernization of Russian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Psychologists, Educational Psychology
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Ebner, Katharina; Soucek, Roman; Selenko, Eva – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This study illuminates the assumption that internships facilitate labor market entry and answers the question of why internships have a positive effect on students' self-perceived employability. It is assumed that internships enable more positive employability perceptions by reducing career-entry worries -- the worries of not finding a…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Program Effectiveness, Employment Potential, Anxiety
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Bridgman, Todd; De'ath, Annie – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2017
This article explores the contribution a social constructionist paradigm can make to the study of career, through a small-scale empirical study of recent graduates employed in New Zealand's state sector. A social constructionist lens denies the possibility of an individualised, generalised understanding of 'career', highlighting instead its local,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Careers, Public Sector, College Graduates
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Ng, Wei-Hua; Menzies, Jane; Zutshi, Ambika – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2019
Few studies have addressed the university-to-work transition experience of international postgraduate students. This paper contributed to the literature as it proposed a three-stage university-to-work transition framework including stages of finishing a degree, looking for a job, and working in a job. A qualitative research design with in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Education Work Relationship
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Behle, Heike – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
Students and graduates alike are encouraged to enhance their skills and knowledge by moving to a different European country as both national governments and European institutions anticipate individual skill gains, closer European networks and a boost to national economies as a result. Using data from a longitudinal survey, this paper follows…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Entry Workers, Career Development
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Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Geel, Regula – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
This paper analyses whether tertiary education of different types, i.e., academic or vocational tertiary education, leads to more or less favorable labor market outcomes. We study the problem for Switzerland, where more than two thirds of the workforce gain vocational secondary degrees and a substantial number go on to a vocational tertiary degree…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Success, Career Development
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Dyer, Suzette; Lu, Fen – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2010
A growing number of Chinese-born international students are seeking permanent residency and paid employment in New Zealand after graduation. As yet, little is known about their post-study transitions to permanent residency and paid employment. This article reports on research investigating the transition experiences of 10 Chinese-born…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Foreign Countries, Career Development, Foreign Students
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Creed, Peter A.; Patton, Wendy; Hood, Michelle – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
We surveyed 506 Australian high school students on career development (exploration, planning, job-knowledge, decision-making, indecision), personal functioning (well-being, self-esteem, life satisfaction, school satisfaction) and control variables (parent education, school achievement), and tested differences among work-bound, college-bound and…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Academic Achievement, Parent Education, High School Students
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Paauwe, Jaap, Ed.; Williams, Roger, Ed. – Journal of Management Development, 2001
Includes "Seven Key Issues for Management Development" (Paauwe, Williams); "Typology of Management Development" (Jansen, van der Velde, Mul); "Management Development at Royal Dutch/Shell" (Mahieu); "Management Development in Unilever" (Reitsma); "International Co-ordination and Management…
Descriptors: Career Development, Classification, Corporations, Entry Workers
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Athanasou, James A. – Career Development Quarterly, 2002
Examines the vocational pathways of a sample of Australian school students over a 7-year period after the students left school. Results indicated that there was a disparity between the students' initial vocational interests and their occupations at the beginnings of their careers. Results suggest that there was a period of career exploration…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Exploration, Entry Workers, Foreign Countries
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Lau, Agnes; Pang, Mary – Education + Training, 2000
A study of 300 employed college graduates in Hong Kong found that early-career workers use strategies to enhance promotability and improve their image with supervisors more than strategies to build external networks. They were less inclined to make long-term career plans because of the uncertain, rapidly changing environment. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, College Graduates, Employment Potential
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Feij, Jan A.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1995
A survey of 859 entry-level workers from 8 European countries employed as machine operators and office technology workers identified the processes that account for the development of career-enhancing strategies and job content innovations. Supervisor or coworker relations and intrinsic work values were most important. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Development, Education Work Relationship, Entry Workers, Foreign Countries
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Dany, F.; Mangematin, Vincent – Higher Education Policy, 2004
This article analyses the early careers of young scientists in France. Since training and early career management are designed to cater almost exclusively for an academic career, a substantial proportion of PhDs lack support to design their training in relation to the job they will look for after graduation. Even if most young scientists manage to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientists, Entry Workers, Biological Sciences
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