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Educated Immigrant Women Workers Doing Well with Change: Helping and Hindering Factors
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Koert, Emily; Borgen, William A.; Amundson, Norman E. – Career Development Quarterly, 2011
The authors investigated the strategies that helped or hindered 10 immigrant women workers to do well with change that affected their work. A total of 182 incidents were extracted and grouped into 9 categories: personal beliefs/traits/values, taking action, skills/education, personal challenges, self-care, relationships/support,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Females, Employed Women
Congruence and Coherence as Predictors of Congruent Employment Outcomes.
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Thompson, Janice M.; And Others – Career Development Quarterly, 1994
Evaluated four diagnostic signs (employment congruence, aspirational congruence, employment coherence, and aspirational coherence) derived from Holland's theory of vocational personalities and occupational environments for their ability to predict personality-environment congruence among 87 employees with special needs. Found that employment…
Descriptors: Congruence (Psychology), Employees, Foreign Countries, Personality Traits
Four Methods to Determine RIASEC Codes for College Majors and a Comparison of Hit Rates.
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Harrington, Thomas F.; And Others – Career Development Quarterly, 1993
Compared Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional (RIASEC) college major codes derived from surveying students enrolled in 28 majors, judgments of subject matter and counseling experts, and workers employed in jobs related to majors. Highest degree of agreement was 96% between student Career Decision-Making codes…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Higher Education, Interest Inventories