Archetypal narratives in career counselling: a chaos theory application

This paper seeks to extend previous work on narrative career counselling by considering the role of plot within clients’ narratives. Seven archetypal narratives derived from the work of Booker (2004) are introduced that represent systems of meaning to provide insight into how individuals interpret their experience. These plots can be understood within the Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC) in terms of the attractors contained within the client narratives. Identifying the plots provides new insights into the nature of career development difficulties and how client stories may be reformulated.     

Career guidance in the Middle East and North Africa

The results are presented of a policy-focused review of career guidance services in 10 Middle East and North African countries. A range of economic, political, socio-cultural and educational factors which seem likely to have constrained the development of such services, and to have influenced the forms they have taken, are discussed. A number of drivers for change are outlined, the nature of the main current services is described, and a number of common issues are explored. Six broad themes are identified for the future development of career guidance services within the region.     

Teachers’ career ladder policy in Ethiopia: an opportunity for professional growth or “a stick disguised as a carrot?”

In response to the ever-declining status of the teaching profession, and its adverse effects on the country's educational system, the Federal Ministry of Education in Ethiopia introduced a policy of the teachers’ career ladder in 1994. While reformers believe that the introduction of the policy has improved the condition of the teaching profession, the net gains of the policy remain deceptive and even, in part, reduce some of the benefits teachers used to enjoy in the single salary scheme in the past. Among other things, central to the claims of the policy's advocates stands an improved salary scale for teachers. While this was admittedly true by the time the policy was introduced, the gain in salary raise has gradually been lost to the bureaucratic hurdles and watchdog structures erected to screen teachers’ eligibility at each stage of the career ladder. After critically assessing the major aspects of the policy, along with the voices of Ethiopian teachers, the current study argues that the policy of the teachers’ career ladder in Ethiopia is another prototypical case of a failed experiment both in terms of improving the lives of teachers and maintaining their professional rights.     

部分高校科技期刊青年编辑职业发展状况的性别差异研究

【目的】了解高校科技期刊青年编辑在学历、职称、工作状况与态度、对收入满意度、学习情况、学术业绩等方面是否存在性别差异,并对其原因进行探讨。分别从编辑部、女性编辑自身角度提出发展建议,为进一步完善青年编辑队伍建设和提升编辑个人职业素养提供参考依据。【方法】 2015年5月至8月,采用随机问卷方式,对137名中国高校科技期刊20～40岁青年编辑人员进行了职业发展状况调查。对各统计项的频次和有效百分比进行了计算,并利用spss16.0统计软件,对男女青年编辑的学术业绩差异进行t检验,其他项目差异采用卡方检验。 【结果】 青年编辑职业发展问卷中各统计项的男女比例均有不同程度差异;男女青年编辑在近3年参加业务骨干、青年编辑培训人数、每周自学时间、人均主持编辑学课题数目方面的差异均存在统计学意义。【结论】 性别差异对青年编辑的职业发展有一定影响,但是有限;女性青年编辑不应妄自菲薄,应发挥自身先天优势,更好地为高校科技期刊发展贡献力量。     

试谈学校职业指导的构建

学校职业指导，是学校课程体系的重要组成部分。搞好学校职业指导，必须正确处理好各种关系，把握学校职业指导的内容，严格学校职业指导的开展与实践的基本程序．从而使学校职业指导走向正规化、专业化、科学化的轨道，真正完成学校职业指导的功能。     

职业生涯发展体系--我国IT企业人力资源管理的关键

目前IT企业人力资源管理主要存在着:工作职责不够清晰;没有可行的职业发展轨道;缺乏系统的培训学习体系和有效的考核激励机制等问题,造成人才流失。构建一个系统的动态的职业生涯发展体系有利于解决这个问题。这个体系包括由职业生涯发展轨道和员工职业生涯规划组成的核心部分、人力资源的相关职能及成功运行的基本条件三部分。     

论学校心理咨询与职业咨询的异同

同样作为一种助人活动,职业咨询与心理咨询既有区别又有联系,两者既不是包含关系,也不是平行关系,更不是同一关系,而是交叉关系。区别表现在含义、学科基础、理论依据、内容与方法上存在差异,联系主要表现在终极目标、原则、基本过程、会谈技术与提供服务的方式上基本一致。     

Dialogical self: author and narrator of career life themes

This conceptual paper introduces the Theory of Dialogical Self to the career development literature. The life themes component of the Theory of Career Construction is the focus of application for dialogical self. It is proposed that the notion of dialogical self may contribute to understanding how individuals construct the career-related life themes. Dialogical self is thus presented as a promising theoretical construct to augment the explanatory capacity of the Theory of Career Construction and the constructivist, narrative approach to career theory in general. Implications for career counselling are presented.     

Career patterns and competences of PhDs in science and engineering in the knowledge economy: The case of graduates from a UK research-based university

Based on data collected through a complex survey of science and engineering PhD graduates from a UK research-based university, this paper examines the different types of careers and to what extent different types of competences acquired from doctoral education are regarded as valuable in the different career types. The results show that employment outside the conventional technical occupations is the main destination for the survey respondents. This career type is not only successful at retaining its members, but is also the destination of the other career types. Moreover, different types of competences from doctoral education are regarded as relatively more valuable in different career types: knowledge directly tied to subject areas is regarded as more valuable in academia/public research; both knowledge directly tied to subject areas (but more general type of knowledge rather than specialist knowledge in PhD topics) and the more general and transferable skills are regarded as valuable in technical positions in manufacturing; and the general and transferable skills are regarded as more valuable in employment outside the conventional technical occupations. In absolute terms, general analytical skills and problem solving capability acquired from doctoral education are perceived as valuable in all three career types.     

论教师职业生涯规划——从新手型教师发展到专家型教师

教师职业生涯规划是教师走向成功的基本前提。教师作为学校的主体,如何快速地成长为专家型教师,实现教师自我的专业化发展,必须清晰地认识到教师职业生涯规划的重要性。就教师职业生涯规划的必要性、教师成长阶段及如何规划谈认识体会。