Article history: Received 28 December 2013 Available online 12 April 2014 The unpredictable and unstable current work market is impacting in particular at-risk workers, such as individuals with disability. Based on Life Design approach, the present study focused on two variables, career adaptability and hope, relevant to coping with the current work context and their role in affecting life sati...

As qualified human resources, vocational education graduates significantly sustain economic growth, specifically in developing countries. However, the graduates’ age that falls into range of adolescents and career pattern direction remains centered on their parents impact competency development. Therefore, this study aimed to examine role adolescent–parent congruence students’ employability Thi...

During the apartheid years in South Africa, career guidance amongst disadvantaged learners was largely absent and, for many, career choices were limited and governed by politics. Despite South Africa having celebrated 20 years of democracy, this situation has improved only slightly. Therefore, the aims of the study were to determine the factors that influenced students’ career choice and to asc...

PURPOSE To gain insight into the professional characteristics of radiologists in Switzerland and to determine how to enhance the attractiveness of radiology to medical graduates as a specialty. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data from 262 members of the Swiss Society of Radiology (m:f = 76:24%) obtained in a questionnaire survey were analysed regarding socio-demographic variables, working status, spec...

Improvement in the proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities (URMs) in academic positions has been unsatisfactory. Although this is a complex problem, one key issue is that graduate students often rely on research mentors for career-related support, the effectiveness of which can be variable. We present results from a novel academic career "coaching" intervention, one aim of w...

Introduction. Career academies, such as the California Partnership Academies (CPAs), are college-and-career pathways organized within high schools to provide support for small groups of teachers working with about 100 to 300 students over the course of two to four years. Students each year take a core set of academy classes together, and only academy students are scheduled into these classes. T...