Fostering of Professional Engineer for Each Career Development

Professional development session for early career scientists at SITC 2012

The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) 2012 Professional Development Session was held as part of the SITC 27th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, on October 24, 2012. The session was designed as a new opportunity for early career investigators to learn about relevant career development topics in a didactic setting.

Teleworking and Professional Career Development for Individual Knowledge Workers

This paper investigates the relationship between full-time home-based telework and professional career development for knowledge workers. Based on the influence of full-time homebased teleworking on factors that determine for professional career development it is argued that for a knowledge worker’s career in a certain stage it is or is not advisable to participate in home-based teleworking on ...

Career Planning and Development for Students : Building a Career in a Professional Practice Discipline

Nurses assume a variety of roles in complex and ever changing health care systems. Moreover, the increasing demands of current work environments require that nurses be well prepared to provide and influence quality health care services. Nurse educators, therefore, are faced with the challenge of creating curricula that prepare and socialize students to take an active role in the evolution of th...

The nursing professional portfolio: a pathway to career development.

Nursing professional portfolios have moved beyond the traditional listing of past experiences and accomplishments. They now provide a format for self-reflection on practice and for goal planning, capturing both the art and the science of nursing. This article describes the experiences of designing and implementing the use of a comprehensive professional portfolio and the benefits realized by in...

Teaching Professional Ethics: Fostering Some Overlooked Skills