The process of “becoming” is inherently unique for each youngmind that chooses a career of scientific exploration and experimentation. Yet within each scientist’s story are themes of energizing curiosity, fulfillment emerging from discovery, and an instinctual desire for the freedom to explore and investigate. Laura L. Mays Hoopes, the Halstead-Bent Professor of Biology at Pomona College in Cla...

Traditional performance expectations and career advancement paths for academic physicians persist despite dramatic transformations in the academic workflow, workload, and workforce over the past 20 years. Although the academic physician's triple role as clinician, researcher, and educator has been lauded as the ideal by academic health centers, current standards of excellence for promotion and ...

Setting sail on a new career path as a nurse responsible for the health of the passengers and crew of cruise liners can be hugely satisfying.

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This study examined the mediating role of career decision self-efficacy in relationship between locus control and aspiration. A 9-item Career Aspirations Scale, 31-items Locus Control 24-item Decision Self-Efficacy Short Form were administered to 2700 students from grades 10 11 studying high schools. Path analysis results indicated that a positive direct effect internal on aspiration negative p...

Creating career pathways to facilitate current dental and other healthcare providers becoming dental therapists can be an efficient means to expand the dental workforce and reduce barriers to access to oral health services. Career pathways are proposed to facilitate dental providers building on previously learned skills to broaden their scope of practice and become even more versatile and produ...

Despite their implications for careers, cultural goods and honours in the field of cultural production have rarely been examined as career events by culture researchers. More typically, cultural prizes are examined as they relate to the process of cultural valorization or are used to construct samples of venerated cultural products or producers for subsequent analysis. However, embedding cultur...

Article history: Received 30 January 2010 Available online 9 May 2010 Using survey data from 226 employees and their supervisors in four manufacturing companies in China, we found that employee self-efficacy has a dual moderating effect on the impact of supervisory mentoring on subordinate career outcomes. Path analytic tests of mediated moderation suggested that self-efficacy moderates the med...

The present study used a longitudinal design to test aspects of Kirby and Herrnstein’s (1995) theory of time discounting. Specifically, the prediction that preferences reverse due to changes in delay was tested in a longitudinal study of career-path selections made by employees in a Hong Kong real estate consultancy. Over a three-year period, 16 of 23 subjects reversed their career preference f...