Showing papers in "Australian journal of career development in 2017"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a scale of work-life balance for Turkish working women and men and investigated the mediating effect of work and life balance on Turkish women's and men's health.
Abstract: The first purpose of this study was to develop a scale of work–life balance for Turkish working women and men The second purpose was to investigate the mediating effect of work–life balance betwee
49 citations
TL;DR: This article found that students from low socio-economic status, regional, and Indigenous backgrounds have lower completion rates and graduate outcomes compared to other students of low socioeconomic status and regional and Indigenous background.
Abstract: There is a pressing need to redress inequities in university completion rates and graduate outcomes. Students from low socio-economic status, regional, and Indigenous backgrounds have lower complet...
28 citations
TL;DR: This article conducted website content analysis of 107 research-intensive universities in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States and classified these strategies as portfolio, hands-off, award and non-embedded.
Abstract: Employability development is a strategic priority for universities across advanced western economies. Despite this, there is no systematic study of employability development approaches internationally. In this study, we considered how universities portray employability on the public pages of their websites. We undertook website content analysis of 107 research-intensive universities in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Following Farenga and Quinlan, we classified these strategies as Portfolio, Hands-off, Award and Non-embedded. Portfolio or Award strategies were the most common across all four locations; Hands-off and Non-embedded strategies were more common to US universities; and Award was more common in the United Kingdom. Universities focused on either possessional or positional approaches to employability. We advocate for a pedagogical shift towards processual approaches in which responsibility for employability development is shared.
21 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach for preparing students for the evolving employment sector by adapting to recent changes in the employment sector in order to ensure graduates are job-ready.
Abstract: Universities are attempting to respond to recent changes in the employment sector in order to ensure graduates are job ready One approach for preparing students for the evolving employment sector
16 citations
TL;DR: Based on career construction theory, this paper investigated the mediating role of orientation to happiness in the relationship between career adaptability and in-role and extra-role percolation.
Abstract: Based on career construction theory, this research aimed to investigate the mediating role of orientation to happiness in the relationship between career adaptability and in-role and extra-role per...
14 citations
TL;DR: In this article, effective career planning among undergraduates is increasingly important amid competitive graduate labour markets and high levels of graduate underemployment, and students must be able to set clearly d...
Abstract: Effective career planning among undergraduates is increasingly important amid competitive graduate labour markets and high levels of graduate underemployment. Students must be able to set clearly d...
12 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, career development is a complex process and there are discipline-specific aspects to discipline specific aspects to career development, such as education, education, and discipline specific skills.
Abstract: Attending university can assist students to make informed and realistic choices regarding their career However, career development is a complex process and there are discipline-specific aspects to
12 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a review of 14 articles revealed that career education is increasingly important for secondary school students and that advantages exist in an integrated whole-school approach, and that professional development for career advisors, principals and teachers, changing entrenched attitudes, reimagining the role of the career advisor and providing increased resourcing.
Abstract: Traditionally career education in New Zealand secondary schools has been provided by a dedicated career advisor, but the effectiveness of this model is increasingly being questioned. This review examined approaches to career education in order to recommend a more appropriate model for the future. A review of 14 articles revealed that career education is increasingly important for secondary school students and that advantages exist in an integrated whole-school approach. The authors argue that such an approach is desirable, but acknowledge the issues to be addressed to ensure success. These include professional development for career advisors, principals and teachers, changing entrenched attitudes, reimagining the role of the career advisor and providing increased resourcing. While this review is focussed on New Zealand, it is apparent that other countries are grappling, similarly, with the issue of career education for secondary school students.
8 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the findings of a survey and follow-up interviews with current creative industries practitioners in the regional city of Townsville in northern Australia, in relation to professional development opportunities and issues faced as a result of being located a substantial distance from the nearest capital city.
Abstract: Professional development for those pursuing a career in creative industries is typically driven by individual practitioners, given most areas (e.g. photography, design, film) do not require membership with a regulatory organisation or evidence of continuing skills development. For those based regionally, opportunities for professional development are also less available than for those in capital cities. This paper reports on the findings of a survey (N=151) and follow-up interviews (N=29) with current creative industries practitioners in the regional city of Townsville in northern Australia, in relation to professional development opportunities and issues faced as a result of being located a substantial distance from the nearest capital city. The findings reveal a range of key challenges for regional practitioners due to distance and access to specialists in the field, yet at the same time a number of opportunities for those who display human agency and who are agentic learners.
7 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the career identities of Vietnamese students studying at an offshore university in Vietnam were investigated, where the students had completed the first module of a new career development program, and they had completed their studies at an Australian university.
Abstract: This study considers the career identities of Vietnamese students studying at an offshore (Australian) university in Vietnam The students had completed the first module of a new career development
6 citations
TL;DR: This paper analyses the interest content of all 1016 Australian occupations, classified according to vocational interests, educational qualifications, and skill level, as well as in terms of the six Holland types.
Abstract: This paper analyses the interest content of all 1016 Australian occupations. These were classified according to vocational interests (i.e. outdoor, practical, scientific, creative, business, office...
TL;DR: In this article, a modified version of the Student Engagement Scale, as adopted from the Australasian Survey of Student engagement, was examined through examining model fit, predictive validity, and model fit model fit.
Abstract: This study examined a modified version of the Student Engagement Scale, as adopted from the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement. It did so through examining model fit, predictive validity of ...
TL;DR: In this paper, a regression analysis using 633 Taiwanese college students revealed that only maternal support had a significant predictive effect on the developmental indecision of male and female college students; and
Abstract: Regression analysis using 633 Taiwanese college students revealed that only maternal support had a significant predictive effect on the developmental indecision of male and female college students;...
TL;DR: This paper explored the contribution of social constructionist paradigm to the study of career through a small-scale empirical study of recent graduates employed in New Zealand's state of the art education system.
Abstract: This article explores the contribution a social constructionist paradigm can make to the study of career, through a small-scale empirical study of recent graduates employed in New Zealand’s state s...
TL;DR: This article found that student employment has a negative relationship with academic success as measured by grade point average, and cognitive influences on academic major satisfaction and academic major success were found to be a significant moderator of the relationship between congruence with college major.
Abstract: The current study sought to determine if student employment was a significant moderator of the relationship between congruence with college major, academic major satisfaction, and academic major success. Correlation results suggested that student employment has a negative relationship with academic success as measured by grade point average. No study hypotheses were supported but regression analyses showed significant impact of cognitive influences on academic major satisfaction and academic major success. Clinicians are encouraged to aid students in planning the relationship between required work and educational responsibilities, as well as consider implications of negative career thinking on academic satisfaction and success.
TL;DR: This article explored the factors that lead students to choose to study in the majors they dislike using a qualitative design, and explored the forces that cause students to make the decision to do so.
Abstract: This study is an attempt to uncover the factors leading students to study in the majors they dislike. Using a qualitative design, the study aims to explore the forces that cause students to make ca...
TL;DR: In this paper, a special issue, Narrative Career Counselling: A tension between potential, popular appeal, and evidence, invites contributors to consider the status quo of narrative career counselling and its way forward.
Abstract: Narrative career counselling has been widely adopted in career development in the more than two decades since Savickas (1993) exhorted the field to move from scores to stories in his seminal article ‘‘Career counseling in the postmodern era.’’ The pioneering works of Cochran (1997), Peavy (1997), and Amundson (1998) provided examples of ‘‘how to do’’ narrative career counselling and since then, much has been written on new and innovative approaches, resulting in Hartung’s (2013) claim that the field has taken a ‘‘narrative turn’’ (p. 30). Examples of interview processes and qualitative career assessment instruments provide practitioners with a broad range of options. By injecting ‘‘news of difference’’ (Bateson, 1979, p. 228) into career counselling, narrative approaches revitalised the field by placing emphasis on the client– counsellor relationship and the dialogue in which they engaged, privileging the voices of clients as well as their ability to construct their futures, and taking an ‘‘individual in context’’ (McMahon, Watson, & Patton, 2014, p. 30) perspective of clients. Moreover, narrative career counselling was widely hoped to offer solutions to concerns about the cultural relevance of practice and its capacity to cope with complexity. Narrative career counselling, however, is in its embryonic stages in practice and research (Di Fabio, 2016), particularly in research where both the process of narrative career counselling and its outcomes need to be better understood; there remains a need for the evidence base for narrative career counselling to be strengthened. Almost 25 years since Savickas’ prophetic words, it is time to take stock of narrative career counselling. For example, despite its popular appeal, has narrative career counselling achieved the potential envisaged for it and has it built an evidence base that attests to its processes and outcomes? This special issue, Narrative Career Counselling: A tension between potential, popular appeal, and evidence, invites contributors to consider the status quo of narrative career counselling and its way forward. The special issue will conclude with a synthesis of views from the contributions that offers a future agenda for narrative career counselling.