The ebb and flow within the technology sector, ranging from the dot com bubble to outsourcing, has programmers searching for job security. Many individuals have considered becoming a SAS programmer within the Biotech and Pharmaceutical industry due to the longer project life cycle of years rather than months. The best path to enter this field can be elusive. There are challenges especially f...

R esearchers have argued that human resources may be seen as a source of sustained competitive advantage for organizations (Barney, 1991, 1995; Becker & Gerhart, 1996). The underlying assumption is that human resources are unique to the extent that competitors cannot imitate them. This research has led to the identification of a number of human resource management practices that contribute to c...

The article deals with the question whether careers have indeed become more complex during the last years and/or decades by applying methods stemming from chaos research. The movements of 215 business school graduates from two different cohorts (graduation around 1970 and 1990 respectively) along two career-related dimensions (coupling, i.e. careerrelated security, dependency, and number of job...

this brief discusses the policy implications of a research study commissioned by health workforce australia (hwa) within its health workforce innovation and reform work program. the project explored conceptually complex and operationally problematic concepts related to developing a whole-of-workforce competency-based education and training and competency-based career framework for the australia...

ARE YOUNG RESEARCHERS GETTING A FAIR DEAL? Early career researchers (ECRs) are often anecdotally described as facing major challenges. These challenges reportedly include lack of job security, too few opportunities to carve out their own interests, fighting to survive in competitive institutions and being perceived as resources rather than as people. These issues have attracted increasing atten...

Gender scholars draw on the "theory of gendered organizations" to explain persistent gender inequality in the workplace. This theory argues that gender inequality is built into work organizations in which jobs are characterized by long-term security, standardized career ladders and job descriptions, and management controlled evaluations. Over the past few decades, this basic organizational logi...

A search of the World Wide Web for multimedia jobs, using the search terms “interactive, multimedia, and career”, indicates over 9 million pages which discuss, provide or offer placement in a career which in some way incorporates the use of Interactive Multimedia. The sites involved range in discipline coverage from medical areas to spacerelated jobs to areas of security—and all technical and b...

Retaining their employees and reducing costs were identified as top issues for IT executives nowadays however the actual situation in companies is a lot different. Employed IT workers see better chances for advancement on external job markets than in their own company and are little satisfied with their career opportunities and expectations. IT employers need to solve this urgent issue as a glo...

any older doctors work beyond the traditional retirement age of 65 and have no clear retirement plans, as disMcussed by Wijeratne and colleagues in this issue of the MJA.Yet it is alsoknownthat olderdoctors are at higher riskofpoor performance. The move towards revalidation, as being considered by the Medical Board of Australia (MBA), should be regarded as complementary to retirement planning, ...

introduction: several factors affect the academic performance of college students and parenting style is one significant factor. the current study has been done with the purpose of investigating the relationship between parenting styles, academic achievement and career path of students at shiraz university of medical sciences. methods: this is a correlation study carried out at shiraz universit...