Undergraduate students' experiences of using information at the career fair: A phenomenographic study conducted by the libraries and career center

Stonebraker, Ilana; Maybee, Clarence; Chapman, Jessica

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2019.05.002

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“…Similarly, students perceive guest speaker sessions beneficial because guest speakers provide insight into the practical aspect of the profession by sharing personal examples and career suggestions, and students enjoy real-life learning experience [30]. Likewise, career fairs are strategies that increase the chances of finding a job for students, help them better understand career aspirations, and network with professionals in the field [31].…”

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Possible Future Career Challenges and Associated Factors among Dental Students and Interns

Fita

Alshuraim

Almulhim

et al. 2020

International Journal of Dentistry

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Background. Dental students face a variety of challenges as they enter the dental profession. The study aimed at assessing dental students’ opinions about their perceived future career challenges in the dental profession and the associated factors. Materials and Methods. This cross-sectional study of 637 students representing different public and private dental colleges was conducted in Saudi Arabia. The participants responded to a pretested questionnaire conducted online. Results. There were 59.7% (n = 380) of males and 40.3% (n = 257) of females, and the mean age of the students was 21.80 (±2.14) years. The majority of participants thought that they will have difficulties in establishing their private clinic (63.9%) and finding a government job (>60%). Senior students were more likely to perceive getting a government job (OR = 1.79, P=0.02), securing an admission into specialty program (OR = 2.75, P=0.001), and establishing a private dental clinic (OR = 2.51, P=0.001) as future career challenges than junior students. Similarly, female gender was associated with increased perception of challenges about finding a government job (OR = 1.911, P=0.002), getting an admission into specialty program (OR = 1.5, P=0.038), and establishing a private clinic (OR = 2.02, P=0.001). In addition, low academic score and low level of father’s education were associated with increased odds of perceiving challenges of finding a government job and getting an admission into specialty programs. Conclusions. Establishing a private clinic and getting a government job were the most common career challenges. Senior students, female students, and students with low academic scores had increased likelihood of facing employment and academic-related difficulties.

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Possible Future Career Challenges and Associated Factors among Dental Students and Interns

Fita

Alshuraim

Almulhim

et al. 2020

International Journal of Dentistry

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“…As for lack of information, the male reported that they had less information regarding to their future career (M = 5.20), which means more than half of them did not have enough information about what job types they are going to do. This indicates that the role job vacancy is not very much received by the males, and are not used as navigators in their future career, an opportunity to look for an appropriate colleague and company (Stonebraker, Maybee, & Chapman, 2019). Such condition is likely to be influenced by negative job search experiences (Kreemers, van Hooft, & van Vianen, 2018) and licence ownership and educational background (Fransen, Deruyter, & De Maeyer, 2018) of the undergraduate students.…”

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Millennials’ Career Decision-Making Difficulties (Cdmd) in Indonesian University Students

Murniarti¹,

Siahaan²

2019

ASSRJ

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Though millennial has unique characteristics as digital natives who prefer to interact with images, branded goods, to have idols and who are interested in modern technological utilization, studying their career decision-making difficulties (CDMD) is barely reported in Indonesia. To respond to such gap, the current report was designed to pattern the CDMD of both male (N = 120) and female (N = 140) undergraduate students in Indonesia. The instrument of the research was totally adopted from Gati et al's. (1996) career decision-making difficulties questionnaire. Descriptive anaylsis showed that the male (M = 4.93) have higher difficulties than the females (M = 4.85). With different levels of difficulties, the current study, therefore, corresponds to Mau's (2004), Guan et al's. (2015), and di Fabio, Palazzeschi, Levin, Levin, and Gati's (2015) reports.

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“…Although the graduates may join different post-graduate specializations they are motivated by various individual factors influencing them. Career counseling has a significant influence on students when choosing the post-graduate specialization (Azad and Rahim, 2015;Fita et al, 2020;Merle and Craig, 2017;Stonebraker et al, 2019). The overall cost of studying abroad is cheaper than in the K.S.A 7 (8.0%) 3 (3.4%) 3 (3.4%) 0 (0.0%) 40.833 (.090)…”

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Post-graduate specialty choice among interns of a private dental school in Jeddah

al.¹

2021

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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Evidence indicates that the majority of dental students report continuing their education further towards a post-graduate specialty degree. The choice of a career is a critical decision that has an obvious impact on a future life pattern. Based on the various factors that influence the decision of the students in choosing the post-graduate specialty student career counseling may be provided at the university level. This study was done to evaluate the specialty preference and their influencing factors among the interns in a private dental school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The study is a cross-sectional survey conducted using a self-administered questionnaire among final year dental students batch 2020-2021. The response rate for the study was 85% which is 87 out of 102 interns from the batch 2020-21. The subjects of choice to pursue post-graduation among the respondents was Endodontics, Prosthodontics, Pediatric Dentistry, Oral maxillofacial surgery, Periodontics, Orthodontics, Restorative and esthetic dentistry, Advanced General Dentistry, Forensic Dentistry, and Oral Pathology. It is revealed that Oral Surgery followed by Orthodontics may be the leading choice of dental specialization among students and the preferred choice may be Restorative and Aesthetic Dentistry. Our study and literature review suggest that there are few post-graduate specialties that are more preferred in comparison to some that are not. It is warranted that the students should be oriented about all the specializations in dentistry which will help in a targeted approach towards meeting the demand of supplying specialists from all the fields in Dentistry.

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Undergraduate students' experiences of using information at the career fair: A phenomenographic study conducted by the libraries and career center

Cited by 10 publications

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Possible Future Career Challenges and Associated Factors among Dental Students and Interns

Possible Future Career Challenges and Associated Factors among Dental Students and Interns

Millennials’ Career Decision-Making Difficulties (Cdmd) in Indonesian University Students

Post-graduate specialty choice among interns of a private dental school in Jeddah

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