Abstract A major challenge for refugees and asylum seekers is social professional integration. Using constructivist capability approaches, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 young enrolled in an integration program French-speaking Switzerland about their career choices. Following consensual qualitative phenomenological focused on life trajectories (the situation home country, trigg...

In today's dynamic and uncertain career context, values play an important role for career choice and lifelong career self-management. Values are desirable goals that are sought by individuals to satisfy their needs and are important for understanding career orientations in terms of protean and boundaryless career orientations and career anchors. However, how career orientations or career anchor...

Methods: The study was a cross sectional observational analytic study of 250 interns from 5 medical colleges in Mangalore, Karnataka. Participants were chosen randomly from the intern’s registers of these colleges after obtaining IEC approval and permission from the administration of the respective colleges. Questionnaires were administered by interviewers and the data was collected and later a...

INTRODUCTION The national junior doctor recruitment crisis prompts an appraisal of medical student attitudes to different career pathways. The purpose of this study was to perform a national review of surgical career intentions of Irish final year medical students. METHODS Ethical and institutional approval was obtained at each study location. A questionnaire was designed and distributed to f...

1 Much has been written about the problems of combining job and family. Among the best-known scholarly works is Goldin's (1997) study in which she found that only 12-17 percent of college-educated women managed to attain both a career and a family. We reexamine these conclusions, first duplicating Goldin's definitions of career but using a somewhat older group, then using alternate definitions ...

Nilanjana Dasgupta's (this issue) stereotype inoculation model (SIM) helps explain why what feels like a free choice to pursue one life path over another "is often constrained by subtle cues in achievement environments that signal who naturally belongs there and is most likely to succeed and who else is a dubious fit" (p. 231). She posits that seeing others like themselves in successful roles i...

Birth order plays a substantial role in a child’s life because the family is the first social system to which a child is exposed. One hundred subjects from a private liberal arts New England College were surveyed and asked to report their birth order, perceived traits, career choice, and college major. Analysis revealed there is statistically significant data regarding the relationship between ...

This study aims to investigate the factors that motivate dental students to choose dentistry as a career. A questionnaire-based survey involving 752 dental students from the only two Moroccan dental schools was conducted between April and May 2011. The questionnaire was designed in terms of financial factors, human factors and working conditions factors. The students were asked to rank the care...