The initial career choice that young people make can become subject to change as individuals gain professional and personal experience. We study career choices made after vocational training and investigate the propensity to change occupation or obtain a tertiary degree among licensed practical nurses (LPNs) in Norway. To explain second-order…

Every person deserves the opportunity for dignified employment that provides living wages and potential for advancement. However, for many in America today, this is far from reality, as they are caught in a cycle of low-wage work, earning poverty wages, and unable to move up in the economy. Local leaders, firms, and workers need to adapt quickly…

The current study examines the relationship between an individual's history of changing jobs and future turnover (the so-called "hobo syndrome"). Relying on self-consistency theory, it was hypothesized that the relationship between job mobility history and turnover is moderated by job complexity. Using a sample of 393 employees from two…

MBA graduates have a reputation for being on the move from one job to another, but the facts show that this is not really true. (Author)

In academe, obtaining an offer from another institution to use in bargaining with one's current employer (becoming a retention case) frequently leads to salary increases. However, retention cases are deterred by resettlement costs and are less likely to be raided by competing institutions because of their ages and the uncertainty of their future…

Discusses why midlife career change occurs, the number and type of people it affects, and how it causes problems (financially, emotionally, etc.). A list of selected studies of midlife career change is provided. (CT)

Pilot interviews with middle-aged men who had made major career changes revealed considerable diversity in values and motivations and yielded a preliminary typology of career changers. (Author)

This paper investigates the effect that turnover in an organization has on the attitudes of those who remain. A longitudinal study of three fast-food restaurants explored this relationship against the background of the social network structures in each site. Results underscore the importance of structural context in studying microphenomena. (TE)

Data from the Decennial Census reveal almost a third of all workers in 1965 transferred to a different occupation by 1970; changing occupations was twice as common as leaving the labor force. (Editor)

Found in a review of the literature on attrition from the student affairs department that student affairs professionals know little about the extent and causes of the attrition problem. Suggests environmental redesign and personal and professional strategies for addressing this issue. (Author/ABL)

With the era of employer-provided security fading, increasing numbers of college graduates are moving among companies and careers in search of the perfect job. The ramifications of this coming instability of the college-educated employee for the corporate recruiter are outlined. (Author/TE)

Presents a personal perspective on the attributes of entering and leaving the college presidency. Explores the delicate balance on exiting an institution, and suggests that both entering and leaving the presidency are tasks that require business acumen as well as theatrical flair. (Contains 1 reference.) (KS)

Today's organizations are undergoing constant and substantial change due to many internal and external forces. These changes are impacting on the inter- and intra-organizational career mobility of managers and employees. This research assessed the relationship between career mobility history and a recent internal or external job change on…

To determine whether there has been a secular rise in job instability among young adults over the past 3 decades, a study compared two National Longitudinal Survey cohorts of young white men. The first cohort entered the labor market in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the second during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The study examined…

Using responses from a national survey of chief academic officers in public community colleges, identifies previous position holders and the positions to which they moved. Presents findings, which indicated that the greatest percentage of former chief academic officers became president (30 percent), whereas the next largest percentage retired (27…