Career transitions and employability

Vos, Ans De; Jacobs, Sofie; Verbruggen, Marijke

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103475

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“…Inquisitive curiosity captures flexibility and risk taking, and optimizes career confidence ( Santilli et al, 2017 ). Careers have been defined as a sequence of work experiences which evolve over a person’s lifetime, and as the movement of a person through time and work space ( De Vos et al, 2021 ). Work experiences help individuals to self-evaluate their person-vocation fit, which in turn builds their personal career confidence and interest ( Glosenberg et al, 2019 ).…”

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How Does Hands-On Making Attitude Predict Epistemic Curiosity and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Career Interests? Evidence From an International Exhibition of Young Inventors

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Whether the hands-on experience of creating inventions can promote Students’ interest in pursuing a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career has not been extensively studied. In a quantitative study, we drew on the attitude-behavior-outcome framework to explore the correlates between hands-on making attitude, epistemic curiosities, and career interest. This study targeted students who joined the selection competition for participating in the International Exhibition of Young Inventors (IEYI) in Taiwan. The objective of the invention exhibition is to encourage young students to make innovative projects by applying STEM knowledge and collaborative design. We collected 220 valid data from participants in the 2021 Taiwan IEYI selection competition and conducted a confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to test the hypotheses. Results indicated that: (1) hands-on making attitude was positively related to two types of epistemic curiosity; (2) interest-type epistemic curiosity (IEC) and deprivation-type epistemic curiosity (DEC) were positively associated with STEM career interest; additionally, DEC had a higher coefficient on STEM career interest than IEC; (3) both types of EC had a mediating role between hands-on making attitude and STEM career interest. It is expected that encouraging students to participate in invention exhibition competitions can raise both types of EC and increase their interest in pursuing STEM careers.

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“…Emphasizing entrepreneurial careers as wayfinding enacted through distinct temporal frames to creating and capturing opportunities otherwise overlooked by others (Chia, 2017; Waddock, and Steckler, 2016), we found explanations on how these entrepreneurs got in and got on with their entrepreneurial careers to be characterized by four heterogeneous ingrained dispositions and actions across space and time. As shown in Figure 1, the outer circle with a dotted line covering the ingrained dispositions and actions represents temporality and the centrality of time in the narratives of our female entrepreneurs and the dynamic nature of the sensemaking processes regarding their entrepreneurial careers (De Vos et al. , 2021).…”

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Careers of commercially successful female entrepreneurs in context of underdeveloped markets and weak institutions

Sarpong

Nyuur

Torbor

2021

IJEBR

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PurposeCareers have come to dominate contemporary discourse on gendered entrepreneurship. This paper aims to explore entrepreneurial careers as recounted by commercially successful female entrepreneurs to examine how they strategize to construct desirable careers in contexts characterized by underdeveloped markets and weak institutions.Design/methodology/approachUsing a qualitative research design, data for our inquiry come from publicly available life history accounts of 20 female entrepreneurs appearing on an enterprise focus television show in Nigeria. The authors supplemented the television interview data with archival data in the form of publicly available digital footprints of the entrepreneurs collected from their company websites, magazines, online newspapers featuring these entrepreneurs and their social media pages such as LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Facebook and Instagram.FindingsThe careers of female entrepreneurs operating in context of underdeveloped institution and markets, the authors found, are characterized by four heterogeneous ingrained dispositions and actions reflecting how they got in and got on with their entrepreneurial careers: (1) “Observing and playing business,” (2) traipsing the “path less traveled,” (3) a hook to the “Pierian spring” of entrepreneurship and (4) “Grace under pressure” in decision-making.Originality/valueThe authors contribute to the entrepreneurship literature by providing insight into the lived experiences, agency and careers of commercially successful female entrepreneurs as played out in the form of a contextual practice of “wayfinding” to starting up and managing their own business ventures.

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“…Características proteanas de carreira são comumente associadas a performance individual de autogerenciamento, responsabilidade e orientação por valores no processo desenvolvimento profissional ( Baruch, 2014;De Andrade et al, 2022;). Levando em consideração que o momento no qual a coleta de dados desta pesquisa foi realizada (pandemia de covid-19), envolveu um cenário de elevada incerteza e de perdas financeiras por grande parte da população (IBGE, 2020), a necessidade de trabalhar, alinhada a maior competividade por emprego e renda dos profissionais do contexto do estudo, embutiu maiores características de protagonismo de carreira na perspectiva de consequentes positivos de empregabilidade (De Vos et al, 2021;Herrmann, et al, 2015). Apesar da evidência do presente estudo, aconselham-se pesquisas com objetivos semelhantes, porém em contextos de menor incerteza como nos vivenciados durante a pandemia.…”

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Bergen Work Addiction Scale: Adaptação e Teste de um Modelo Carreira-Trabalho-Família

2022

Psicol. Conoc. Soc.

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Work Addiction (WA), or popularly workaholism, is characterized as a compulsion or an intrinsic need for work, which cannot control and with adverse effects on health, family, and work dimensions. The Bergen Work Addiction Scale (BWAS) is a current, reduced psychometric measure that addresses this addiction's emotional component. This study aimed to adapt the BWAS to the Brazilian context for the Portuguese language and test the correlations with Protein Career and Work-Family Conflict. A total of 340 people participated in the study, aged between 19 and 67 years (mean = 31.99), most of them women. The adapted scale presented good reliability and fit indices that meet the evidence of internal structure based on the Work Addition theory. Moderate external evidence between BWAS and the Dutch Work Addiction Scale (DUWAS) corroborates the convergent property of the new scale with the instrument available in the literature. Furthermore, the mediation model indicated that the relationship between Protein Career Orientation and Work-Family Conflict was mediated by Work Addiction. Theoretical applications of BWAS for the diagnostic of Work Addiction are discussed, as well as implications of the phenomenon for the sphere of workfamily interaction.

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Career transitions and employability

Cited by 73 publications

References 135 publications

How Does Hands-On Making Attitude Predict Epistemic Curiosity and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Career Interests? Evidence From an International Exhibition of Young Inventors

How Does Hands-On Making Attitude Predict Epistemic Curiosity and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Career Interests? Evidence From an International Exhibition of Young Inventors

Careers of commercially successful female entrepreneurs in context of underdeveloped markets and weak institutions

Bergen Work Addiction Scale: Adaptação e Teste de um Modelo Carreira-Trabalho-Família

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