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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Career preparation"”.
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Doctoral Student Career Preparation: An Institutional Response
… support for doctoral students in preparing for careers inside and outside the academy. While discussions about the purpose of the doctorate are not new, the conversation about preparing PhDs for diverse careers is an emergent one, occupying space inside and outside academic circles. At the heart …
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The effects of emotional intelligence and self-esteem on undergraduate college student academic involvement and career orientation
… college students' academic involvement and career preparation. In addition, the effects of emotional intelligence and self-esteem on problem-solving skills and group skills were also examined. Correlation and regression analyses were conducted to explore the relationship between the …
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ADDRESSING CAREER READINESS: EXPLORING THE CAREER PREPAREDNESS AND CAREER SERVICES UTILIZATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AND HISPANIC STUDENTS
Career outcomes for African American and Hispanic populations differ significantly from those of their White and Asian peers. Data show that recent college graduates from African American and Hispanic backgrounds earn lower salaries and secure full-time employment at lower rates than White and …
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Postsecondary Education Preparation/Career Exploration: Designing a Pilot Educational Counseling Program for Rural Counties
… after high school. Postsecondary education and career preparation programs, educators, and educational counselors can provide guidance to encourage student self-awareness and goal setting. A literature review was conducted to examine current best practices in educational counseling programs and …
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AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY ON SCHOOL FACTORS THAT AFFECT RESILIENCE AND COLLEGE READINESS
… influencing academic resilience and college and career readiness in African-American males; the importance of mother-figure influence, the motivation in the desire to dispel negative stereotypes, the value placed on education by influential adults, and the involvement or lack thereof of school …
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Knowledge and Skills Required for College Union Executive Directors at Research and Doctoral I Universities in the Next Decade
… and knowledge that will be necessary for the career preparation of college union executive directors who will be hired in Research and Doctoral I universities in the next decade, (2000 to 2010). The research design recognizes job congruencies and shared competencies between hospitality general …
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Occupational Choice and Academic Planning in the Colombia-Venezuela Union of Seventh-day Adventists : a Needs Assessment
… preferences of adult groups, failed to match career preparation provided for in the master plan of Corporacion Universitaria Adventista.</p> <p>4. Occupation preferences of students and adult groups were only partially compatible with the officially documented needs of the labor market.</p> …
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A Program Evaluation Of The Extent To Which Full-Time Virtual School Teachers And Full-Time Virtual School Leaders Perceive That Full-Time Virtual School Prepares Students For College
… education is to prepare students for college and careers. The purpose of this study was to evaluate teacher and leader perceptions of the extent to which a full-time virtual school prepared high school students for college. The context of this inquiry was a full-time, public virtual high school in …
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CASE STUDIES OF EdD AND PhD DISSERTATIONS
… the PhD and EdD degree is similar and focuses on career preparation. In addition, PhD and EdD education administration programs have similar expectations in their coursework, exams and with the dissertation. And that faculty use the same terminology to describe the quality of PhD and EdD doctoral …
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Expansion of Motivation Models of Engineering Doctoral Student Populations
… students are not prepared for their future careers. To address this gap, this dissertation explored and made sense of engineering doctoral student experiences related to their development as early career professionals with a variety of future career interests. One consideration embedded …
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Doctoral students’ career decision-making process: comparing faculty and non-faculty careers from socio-cognitive and contextual perspectives
Minimal extant research on doctoral students’ career development prohibits the customization of career preparation that is necessary to prepare them with competencies for achieving their career goals. Such research is particularly urgent as current academic job markets shift career placement …
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Disaggregating the Monolith: A Case Study on Varied Engineering Career Orientations and Strategies of Black Women in Tech
… I use an anti-deficit approach to examine the career orientations and mobility patterns of Black women working in computing and engineering roles in the tech industry. By characterizing the different career motivations, strategies, and points of transition in the careers of a diverse sample of …
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"Something You Love And Something More Practical": Undergraduate Anthropology Education In The Neoliberal Era
… degree cited among college freshman is improved career opportunities, only 20 percent of those who graduate with a bachelor's degree in anthropology report their jobs are closely related to their major (Fogg, Harrington, and Harrington 2004). Bachelor's degree holders in anthropology either go to …
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What We Can Learn from the Lived Experience of Asperger's Syndrome
… traits when guiding them in schooling, career preparation, life skills, social interactions and other responsibilities. The goal of the study was to identify common interventions, including technology interventions, or patterns of behavior used by teachers, parents or other adult leaders …
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Resiliency and Selfless Service Development in Army ROTC Physical Training: A Qualitative Investigation
… resiliency and selfless service during early career preparation. The overall purpose of this dissertation was to provide insight into the development of cadets’ resiliency and selfless service in the context of PT. Two qualitative studies were used to address these issues. The purpose of the …
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African American women superintendents: Their point of exit
… advice for African American women about career preparation, experiences, competencies; and overall guidance related to achieving longevity in the superintendency. These 8 competent and accomplished African American women educators revealed that their exits were influenced by various …
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A Snapshot Semester: Students’ Reflections of Performance and Mental State throughout a Graduate Course
… included coursework, assistantships, finances, career preparation, and family (Wyatt & Oswalt, 2013; Mazzola, Walker, Shockley & Spector, 2011; Oswalt & Riddock, 2007). Guided reflection can be used by educators to assist students in both learning (Boud, Keogh & Walker, 2013; Kolb, 1984) and …
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A description of the linguistic characteristics of the careful speech of recent high school graduates in entry-level positions of job categories of large employment in selected counties of Southwest Virginia
… was the relevance of high school education to career preparation. The interview was conducted in a setting simulating a formal job interview so that the informant would employ careful or controlled usage suitable to the interview situation. The tapes of the interviews were transcribed, and the …
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The Socialization Process of New College Faculty in Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher Education
… educators, including their interpretations of career preparation, their first job, socialization during the first year, continuing socialization and career development, and respondents' recommendations for improving the socialization process. Organizational socialization provided the theory …
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Senior leaders: succession planning and talent management in the Ghanaian civil service
… in Africa, proposing a model framework for a career preparation strategy that could effectively and efficiently sustain the leadership pipeline in the Ghanaian civil service. The colonial masters left behind no employment management legacy, resulting in a gap in succession planning that led to …
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