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Rachel Spronken-Smith; Kim Brown; Claire Cameron – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2024
Purpose: PhD graduates are entering an increasing range of careers, but past research has highlighted a lack of preparation for these careers. This study aims to explore the reflections of PhD graduates from science and humanities and social science disciplines regarding support for career development (CD) during their study.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Career Development, Doctoral Students, College Graduates
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Ma, Yin; Bennett, Dawn; Chen, Shih-Chih – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This study examined the extent to which perceived organisational support (POS) predicts career exploration via the mediation effect of career adaptability. Grounded in career construction theory, the study employed an online survey with 611 Chinese undergraduate students. The survey employed POS, career adaptability and career-related exploration…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Adjustment, Career Exploration, Career Development
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Rachel Spronken-Smith; Kim Brown; Claire Cameron – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
With increasing focus on the outcomes of doctoral education, especially regarding employability, we aimed to explore how PhD graduates from humanities and social sciences (HASS), and science disciplines perceived the development of a holistic set of graduate attributes during their doctoral study and the application of these attributes in the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, College Graduates, Outcomes of Education, Employment Patterns
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Pinxten, Maarten; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Den Noortgate, Wim; Van Damme, Jan; Anumendem, Dickson – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012
The present study aims at unravelling the myriad of student-level (i.e., gender, socioeconomic status [SES], academic self-concept, achievement, ability, and occupational interests) and school-level (i.e., gender composition, maths composition, and SES composition) determinants of option choice in the academic track of secondary school in…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, School Choice, Grade 9, Grade 8