careers

Question 1

Walsch 30 believed..

Answer 1

anyone could be trained to become anything

Question 2

issues with studying careers?

Answer 2

should be longitudinal but from when? careers only make sense in retrospect, can change or be diverse, best to find something (eg doctors) who are going to be stable over long period and one employee (NHS)

Question 3

McManus 1991 cohort study:

Answer 3

followed 6000 med schoool applicants; used questionnaires to test in different years of uni, then followed up in 2002 and 2009- regular tstig was beneficial to study

Question 4

what is ‘occupational typology’ Holland 1919-2008, extended by furnham

Answer 4

RIASEC multidimensional scales (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional) furnham added charectoristics eg realistic=doer, artistic= creator
- measured by qustionnaire, used to map and plot towards careers on a graph

Question 5

evaluation of RIASEC

Answer 5

• can apply dimensions to all careers (Prediger 82), aso use Conformity and Sociability dimensions (Hogan 83), effective as regarded as “types”
• can be extnded for different professions eg medical career mapping (petrides and Mcmanus)- Individual differences scaling (INDSCAL)- remap circumplex to correlate with personality

Question 6

How are careers chosen? - Gottfredson 1981

Answer 6

not at random, they are a result of circumscription and compromise; multidimensional mapping. Prestige level (Y) vs sextype rating (X) – mentalise RIASEC map and set ‘tolerable boundaries’ result in circumscribed zone and then compromise

Question 7

when is best to start studying?

Answer 7

uk start constraining options at 16 from GCSEs. Francis Right- START study 2012: from year 6- transition to secondary school; females initially more ambitious in year 6, options ranged a lot and many not realistic

Question 8

How does personality correlate with career choice?

Answer 8

Horgan nad balke found high corr. with Big 5; neuro doesn’t correlate with choice but does to response in a job
Armstrong and Anthony 09: RIASEC and BIG5; 6 separate facets eg deliberation and self discipline; P correlates with facets of career choice.

Question 9

Philip ackerman: adult intellectual development

Answer 9

plot process, personality, interests and knowledge on graph of RIASEC and big5 (ability and personality dimensions) and measured differing correlations between factors

Question 10

gender differences:

Answer 10

START study differences at an early age in ambitious
McManus- equally ambitious towards surgery initially, after exposure men more likely
MASCULINITY!: spence and helmreich 78: self report taits of instrumentability vs expressionality; masc rather than gender is correlatory with surgery.

Question 11

What affects job satisfaction?

Answer 11

Nye 2012: longitudinal study; pos correlation with interest in area, Holland; furthered this as show more counter-work-behaviours if not interested in job
Low TEI is also correlated with high job satisfaction