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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Career change"”.
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MID-CAREER CHANGE: AN EXPLORATION.
MID-CAREER CHANGE: AN EXPLORATION.
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Early career change among millennial US college graduates
… that 26% of millennial US college graduates changed careers within the first five years after obtaining their degree, but no more than past generations when they were young. Analysis also found that flexibility and optimism are not significant predictors of early career change but openness to …
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The experience of completing a midlife career change: a phenomenological study
… is the experience of completing a midlife career change. This experience is reported by many as they reach the ages between thirty-five and fifty-five. All research was conducted in response to the question: What is the meaning of the experience of completing a midlife career change? The …
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An exploration into factors resulting in career change by qualified chiropractors within the eThekwini Municipality
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Technology in Chiropractic in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology, 2019.
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Bringing the Real World into the Classroom: Career Change Business Educators and the Pedagogies of Engagement
… of prior work experience in the classroom of career change secondary business educators. The 21st century workforce is rapidly evolving due to increases in innovative technology and global competition. Educators are expected to prepare a digital generation of students to face the challenges …
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A multiple case study examining the reasons for career change among behavioral health technicians : solving the turnover dilemma.
… as high as ninety percent annually (Jobs to Careers, 2013). Turnover is a costly process for employers whose funding and general revenue lack the same economic growth as other industries. At Helping Hands Healthcare, turnover rates trend at a higher rate in entry-level caregiver positions …
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The Role of Instructional Leadership on Teacher Induction and Professional Longevity: A Case Study
… on public high school novice and beginning career-change teachers. This study seeks to explore the differences in perceptions of public high school novice teachers versus public high school beginning career-change teachers in regards to the efficacy of induction programs.</p><p>Through a …
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Radical career changes of middle-aged professional, technical, and managerial workers in the New River Valley area of Virginia
… workers who have made voluntary radical career changes, to identify positive and negative experiences faced by these individuals, and to identify coping strategies used by the career changer and families of the career changers. Data were gathered by the participant observation method of …
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Towards Meaningful Work: A Preliminary Understanding of Career Paralysis
… the, as of yet, little understood phenomenon of career paralysis. Career paralysis is a new term adopted by the researcher to represent the increasingly common experience among adults today of wanting to make a career change toward something more meaningful but, for several reasons, being unable …
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Understanding the lived experiences of second career beginning teachers
… entering the teaching profession as a second career (McKenzie, Rowley, Weldon, & Murphy, 2011). To expand the potential pool of well-qualified teachers, opening the profession to individuals with relevant experience outside education is now recognised as an important policy option …
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Technical Communicators in Marketing: Switching Roles and Changing Ethical Perspectives When Working With Content Marketing
This thesis presents an alternate career path for technical communicators in the area of content marketing and expands on the ethical and goal-related issues associated with a career change to a marketing-focused role. Many of the skills necessary for technical communication are transferable to …
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Making the Transition From Paraeducator to Professional Educator: Five Minority Teachers Share Their Stories
… teachers. These paraeducators who make the career change to teachers are more likely to remain in hard-to-supply geographic areas and to increase the diversity of the teaching force. This study explored the lived experiences of five minority women who successfully negotiated the transition …
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Essays on career mobility in the UK labour market
… occupations and industries (referred to as career change). The findings suggest that occupational and industrial mobility are surprisingly high. Both occupational and industrial mobility are procyclical.The majority of instances of career change are associated with wage growth. During an …
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Opinions of registered nurses about quality of working life in Victoria’s public hospitals
… life between nurses who planned to continue a career in nursing and those who planned to make a career change were also sought. Data were collected using a Likert-style survey and semi-structured interviews and were analysed by means of the SPSS computer program and qualitative content analysis.
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Career and technical education faculty retention: a leadership study
… 2007; National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education Consortium, (NASDCTEc), 2010.), but literature specific to retention in career and technical education is limited. One New Jersey career and technical high school experienced high faculty mobility rates which was …
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Military identities : men, families and occupational change.
… families, as they experience transition from careers in the Royal Navy to civilian life. The analysis is based on data derived from three sets of focused interviews with twenty couples, conducted in Plymouth over a period between November 1995 and October 1998, and the findings of a …
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Exploring the COVID-19 Impact and Process of Value Change Towards Work and Leisure Among Millennials: "What Would I Rather Have: A Topped-Up RRSP or Stories of a Month Doing My Dive Master?"
… behaviours, perceptions, and attitudes. Value change is thought to occur in the wake of significant lifestyle disruption, such as marriage, parenthood, or the COVID-19 pandemic. Research on value change is limited. Millennials (1981 – 1996) currently make up 33.2% of the Canadian workforce. …
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Applying Behavior Change Theory to Building the Teacher Pipeline
Background: Behavior change research asserts that change occurs across six stages: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance. Applied research has proven that change is more likely when interventions are appropriately matched to the stage of change of the subject. Career …
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