Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Career advisors'

This study arose from an 'intellectual puzzle' (Mason, 2003) that careers advisers, when faced with personal career dilemmas, found little apparent attraction in seeking career guidance for themselves. This puzzle resonated with the concern, often mentioned in the literatures on career and career guidance, that practitioners continue to espouse outdated, positivist methods of working with their clients. The research set out to explore how careers advisers think about 'career' in their personal and their professional lives. The study was conducted from a social constructionist metaperspective, which took worldviews and ways of knowing to be individually shaped by relationships and social experience. Data collection was through a storied approach to explore participants' retrospective accounts of their own careers to date, putting considerable effort into hearing stories rather than engaging in professional discourse. A second stage of each interview sought accounts of their ways of working with specific, recent clients. Analysis focused on attending to unique personal voices, and particularly the possibility that people may construe a single idea in different ways in different arenas of their life, exploring ideas of 'conceptual dispersion' (Linder and Marshall, 2003), contrapuntal voices (Gilligan et aI., 2003) and 'I-positions' (Hermans et aI., 1992). Differences emerged in the implicit concepts of career underlying personal career stories, both amongst the sample group of careers advisers, and intrapersonally when comparing personal career stories with discussions of their work with clients. Careership theory proved a powerful explanatory tool, but has not given adequate attention to the subjective nature of turning points alongside their visible manifestations in changes of status or occupation. The findings include identification of aspects of careers advisers' ways of working , which are inadequately recognised and celebrated. They also include an emergent understanding, framed within Careership theory and Bourdieu's work, of how careers advisers could better conceptualise their ways of relating with clients. The Listening Guide, a central tool in analysis of the data, was indentified as having potential in this conceptual development. Preparatory work for the study discovered that a remarkable lack of attention has been paid to the careers of careers advisers themselves. The study makes a contribution to this neglected field, as well as offering a firmly qualitative contribution to a research field noted by Stead et al. (20 11) to be strongly biased towards work in quantitative and positivist approaches.

Fifty-three careers advisers in Canterbury secondary schools in New Zealand were asked to complete a questionnaire, assessing their perceptions regarding current levels of resourcing and support for careers advisers in secondary schools. Forty-five returned completed questionnaires, of which ten respondents were male and 35 were female. All were registered teachers. Although there was overall agreement that resourcing had improved over time, the respondents were evenly divided in their opinion that current levels of resourcing were adequate for them to effectively perform their job. Larger schools, in terms of pupil numbers, were better resourced. They had more teaching and ancillary hours for careers. The single most restrictive factor, which was identified as hindering careers advisers from completing their jobs satisfactorily, was time. An analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data has been used to examine present conditions in careers centres in Canterbury secondary schools.

This aim of this study is to understand the professional identity of careers advisers in UK universities, at a time of unprecedented interest in employability across the sector following an increase in undergraduate tuition fees in England. The research question is “What is the professional identity of careers advisers in higher education in the ‘new’ employability climate? Opportunities and challenges for careers service leaders and managers.” Here, professional identity is defined as ‘the experience and self-understanding of those fulfilling a particular occupational role’. The study is qualitative, using the methodological approach of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The areas of literature that have been reviewed relate to the nature and development of the professions and the development of individual and collective professional identity. The history of the careers adviser role within the UK education system also provides context. Data was collected in summer 2012 through interviews with 21 careers advisers from 14 universities across England, Wales and Scotland using a stratified sample based on league table data. This study makes a contribution to knowledge by suggesting a professional identity for careers advisers which is Undefined, Parochial, Unrecognised and Unconfident yet Dedicated, and by making recommendations for leaders and managers, and careers advisers themselves, to consider in their approaches to staff development, (self-) advocacy and connection with broader institutional priorities. Such approaches do not conflict with a primary purpose of ‘helping students’ and can serve to strengthen the impact and influence of careers advisers as experts who address the increasingly critical employability agenda.

The argument illustrated in the thesis outlines Zbigniew Brzezinski’s ability to manipulate himself and his agenda to top priority as the national security advisor to President Carter. It further argues that Brzezinski deserves more blame for the failure of American foreign policy towards Iran; not President Carter. The sources include primary sources such as Zbigniew Brzezinski and President Jimmy Carter’s memoirs as well as information from President Carter’s library in Atlanta, Georgia. Secondary sources include historians who focus on both presidential policy and President Carter and his staff. The thesis is organized as follows: the introduction of Brzezinski, then the focus turns to his time in the White House, Iran, then what he is doing today.

Föreliggande studie undersöker hur idrottspsykologiska rådgivare arbetar och om det i deras klientarbete finns metoder eller modeller som kan vara tillämpbara inom studie- och yrkesvägledning. Syftet var att se hur idrottspsykologiska rådgivare arbetar och vilka skillnader det finns i de båda yrkesgruppernas arbetssätt samt att se om vissa delar i rådgivarnas arbetsformer kan vara tillämpbara eller bara vara kompletterande till studie- och yrkesvägledarnas modeller. Den metod som valdes för forskningen var kvalitativ, med personliga intervjuer. Resultaten som visade att respondenterna arbetade på ett liknande sätt där dialogen med klienten var det primära arbetssättet. En skillnad var att rådgivarna oftast arbetade med sökande som är motiverade till förändring samt att de arbetade processinriktat och hade mer tid för varje klient. Vi anser att det skulle vara möjligt för studie- och yrkesvägledare skulle kunna använda delar av rådgivarnas arbetssätt för att öka och utvidga sina egna framtagna modeller samt för att förnya sina arbetsredskap.
This study examines how sport psychology consultants are working and whether their client work are methods or models which may be applicable in career counselling. The research questions that are answered in this paper are about the sport psychology consultant’s work and what differences there are in the two professional groups. And to see if certain parts of the advisers' work can be applicable or be complementary to the study and career counsellors models. The method chosen for the research was qualitative interviewing. The results that emerged indicated that they worked in a similar manner in the dialogue with the client, the primary approach, but one difference was that counsellors often work with applicants who are motivated to change and that they work with process and had more time for each client. We think that it’s possible for study and careers advisors could use parts from the advisors' approach to enhance and expand its own developed models and to renew their working tools. The hypothesis that the two professional groups worked similarly matched and that it is possible to take parts from working sued.

There is currently a phenomenon of young people changing jobs in our country. This research looks at the reasons why mechanics leave the workshop environment to pursue a career as a technical advisor in the call centre. The technical advisors all make the transition at a particular stage in their lives and this will be looked at in terms of Super’s (1980) developmental theory, with a particular focus on the stage of establishment. The dissertation takes the reader on a journey through the lives of five technical advisors at a particular organisation, and compares and contrasts the two work environments and the quality of work life associated with both. The study will also focus on stress that they experience while making the transition from mechanic to technical advisor and how this impacts on their work and personal lives. The study was exploratory in nature and was investigated through the qualitative method of interviewing.

碩士
大同大學
事業經營學系(所)
97
Mentoring relationship is a relationship in which a junior staff member is attached to a senior person in the organization, and receives job skills and mental training and a great deal of help. The origin is from the well-known Greek Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, where the hero Odysseus entrusted his son to the credible friend Mentor for protection and education while he was going to fight the Trojan War. Then it made for a relationship that Mentor was like both a teacher and a friend to his son. Afterward, a mentoring relationship, no matter if in eastern or western culture, has had some typical examples. For instance, Confucius and his 72 disciples are in eastern culture, and philosophers Socratic and Plato are in western culture. These examples are enough to explain the existence and impact of the mentoring relationship. However, most existing research on the mentoring relationship has been set in a career environment and usually discusses the mentoring relationship from the student’s perspective to see how the mentoring function works. From the survey done for this study, there is no research discussing the effects of the mentoring relationship from both sides until now. This study is to make a breakthrough in the lack of the existing research on the mentoring relationship through field surveys by using the questionnaire survey. All the assistant professors and professors which had experience in thesis mentoring, and the first and second year graduate students were surveyed in one of the private universities in Taipei. There were a total of 150 and 665 questionnaires distributed to teachers and students, respectively, after two months tracing and collecting, the retrieved qualified questionnaires are 83 and 413, respectively. Data Analysis of this study was conducted through the AMOS 6.0 Structural Equation Modeling Analysis and SPSS14.0 was used for the registration of information and descriptive statistics calculation. This study finds that the recognition of the mentoring function among the mentoring professor and the master’s students will positively affect career consultation and affection interflow; the affective interflow among the mentoring professor and the master’s students will positively influence the level of learning satisfaction of the latter. First, one different point of this study from the previous research is that “On the recognition of the mentoring function, the mentoring professor’s and the master’s students’ recognition of the instrument function are higher than the recognition of the psychosocial and networking functions.” The point we can realize from this is that the domestic education for the master’s is required by completing the thesis. This is different from the European and American education for the master’s. They are required to get the fixed academic credits and join the specified seminars. The domestic education for a master’s is still a typical traditional learning of graduate school, focusing on theory development and application. In addition, professors face stresses from evaluation and promotion, and they can get the points for promotion by publishing papers abstracted from the students’ theses that they guided. Therefore, it makes the education for the master’s trend to practical orientation that is the professors’ advising capacity is respected. Second, both teachers and students must believe in the mentoring function strongly, and then the affection interflow and career consultation will be influenced positively. In other words, when only the mentoring relationship exists and works well, both teachers and students will get the positive affection interflow, and also students will have career consultations further from the teachers. Finally, affection interflow has the mediating effect on the learning satisfaction of the students, it proves that a professor’s respect, concern, sharing, and encouragement will influence a student’s attitudes for the learning environment and further increase its effects on learning.

This research sets out to identify (i) the perceptions of careers advisers and other relevant stakeholders about current career management practices provided for secondary school careers advisers by the NSWDET and (ii) the current and future career issues faced by NSWDET careers advisers in view of social political and economic changes in the last decade in so far as they impact upon their careers. In this thesis, career management is conceptualised as a process which involves employees becoming aware of their own interests, values, strengths and weaknesses, obtaining information about job opportunities within their organisation (and by implication, with other potential employers), identifying career goals and creating plans to achieve such goals. As such, the process is not exclusively driven by the employer, but is rather a joint responsibility. However to discover what the career management stakeholders viewed about the career management received by NSWDET secondary careers advisers, it was necessary to focus on what this employer had provided. To establish a set of criteria to discover the types and support for such career management, the schema of career management interventions provided by Arnold’s (1997) see Table 1.1, was used as an investigative tool. The conclusions reached are that there remain unmet challenges for the career management of secondary school careers advisers and indeed to the careers of these practitioners in NSWDET schools. An important outcome of this thesis will be to create a set of recommendations to guide the future course of managing the careers of these secondary school careers advisers.
M. Commerce (Hons.)

abstract: The impact of peer-leadership programs on undergraduate students has been studied since the inception of higher education. Programs such as peer-mentoring, peer-counseling, and peer-advising are regularly used within the college environment as there are proven benefits to both student leaders and mentees. However, there is limited content on students who plan to pursue higher education careers and experiential programs that prepare them for the field. Thus, this action research study is designed to examine the influence of a peer-advising program on participants who have identified their interest in various careers in the college setting. Employing a mixed-method approach to inquiry, the study connects Kolb’s (2005) Experiential Learning theory, and Chickering’s (1964) Vectors of Student Development to a hands-on learning experience designed to improve participants’ competency and clarity in their potential career choice. This study was conducted with the purpose of illustrating the role of experiential learning opportunities in higher education, particularly with a unique focus on undergraduate students desiring careers in the higher education field. Four senior students were positioned as peer-advisors assisting fellow students with academic related matters over one semester as a means of gaining competency and clarity in their pathway toward working in higher education. The results of the study indicate that peer-advising participants attributed program participation to increased career competency and clarity. There were also 64 student-advisee participants who found the program to be beneficial to their overall advising needs, as well as one professional advisor who found the program to be effective in decreasing her advising load during the study. The results of this study align with outcomes of pinnacle research and scholarship on experiential learning, and support the growing acknowledgment of the importance of applied learning experiences in higher education.
Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Leadership and Innovation 2017

The emergence of modularized curriculum in community college career and technical education (CTE) programs has received substantial attention over the last decade, with researchers suggesting that this type of curriculum redesign may assist with student retention and success. The purpose of this study was to describe advisory committee member involvement in modularizing CTE programs. This study was undertaken for three reasons: (a) to address the limited research on the topic of advisory committee involvement in modularizing curriculum; (b) to respond to the increased momentum to expand working lifetime opportunities, in which modularization may play an integral part; and (c) to explore the suggestion that employers must take a leadership role in shaping the workforce and that this may be done effectively through work on an advisory committee. The research was designed as a quantitative descriptive study using survey methodology. The study focused on community college CTE advisory committee members in Oregon and Wisconsin who were identified as being engaged in developing career pathways. The primary research question asked respondents to describe their involvement in modularizing curriculum, and the secondary question asked them to specific the degree to which their involvement had occurred in the various aspects of modularizing curriculum. The key findings of this descriptive study suggest that responding CTE advisory committee members in Oregon and Wisconsin are aware of the concept of curriculum modularization but have little involvement in the actual process of breaking down associate degree programs into smaller certificates. This study also shows that these same advisory committee members endorse more than they assist with developing the various aspects of modularizing curriculum, such as defining skills sets for various jobs, developing courses for appropriate content, reordering courses in an existing program, adding or deleting courses, and developing measureable outcomes. Implications for practice from this study are: 1) provide more information and training to advisory committee members involved in modularizing curriculum in order to increase their level of understanding and thus strengthen their ability to participate effectively in reviewing and endorsing work already done by faculty, 2) provide advisory committee members with complete and detailed instructions regarding their work on the committee, and 3) develop a mandatory advisory committee orientation for all members to provide the needed information and training.
Graduation date: 2013

This dissertation reports on a self-study in which I aim to better understand and improve my own practice as a Department of Education subject advisor, specifically in relation to preparing for the implementation of the Foundations for Learning (FFL) programme in the Foundation Phase (Grades R-3). FFL is a National response to persistent unacceptable low levels of literacy and numeracy in the Foundation Phase in South African schools. The programme is designed to focus attention on key activities that lead to effective literacy and numeracy development. Through memory work and critical reflection, I re-examine my lived experiences of learning and teaching in order to understand what impact these experiences have had on my practice as a teacher and a subject advisor. In addition, I work with a focus group of teacher participants to examine their experiences of learning and teaching as well as their current needs as Foundation Phase teachers in relation to the implementation of the Foundations for Learning programme. Through the self-study, I distinguish areas where I need to improve on my practice and also set out key strategies for change. Areas for improvement include closing the gap between policy and practice, conducting effective workshops, encouraging networking, enhancing communication and addressing specific barriers in rural schools.
Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Edgewood, 2010.

碩士
國立臺中教育大學
教育學系
107
This study investigated the relationship between the prosocial behaviors and the career decision-making self-efficacy of the recreation guidance advisers in Taiwan. The questionnaire survey method was employed in this study. The Prosocial Behaviors Scale and the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Questionnaire were adopted. A total of 239 surveys were completed by sampling members in the Chinese Recreation Guidance Association and 2018 award winning college community. Data from 236 usable samples were analyzed with statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson product-moment correlation. The conclusions of this study were as follows: 1. The perception of the recreation guidance advisers in Taiwan towards the prosocial behaviors were above average. 2. The perception of the recreation guidance advisers in Taiwan towards the career decision-making self-efficacy were above average. 3. The perception of the recreation guidance advisers in Taiwan towards the prosocial behaviors varies due to age, years of service in extracurricular learning, and years of service in different kinds of recreation guidance. 4. The perception of the recreation guidance advisers in Taiwan towards the career decision-making self-efficacy varies due to genders, education, years of service in extracurricular learning, and years of service in different kinds of recreation guidance. 5. The prosocial behaviors of the recreation guidance advisers in Taiwan were positively correlated with the career decision-making self-efficacy. Based on the aforementioned conclusions, the study proposed some suggestions for the recreation guidance advisers, government agencies, schools and future researchers.

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This article describes the work of the ‘Action on Living Well: Asking You’ group – an involvement group of people with dementia and carers attached to the IDEAL research study. The article describes the work of the group, the methods that have helped them to stay involved and people’s perspectives on their experiences of being involved and the impact it has had, for themselves and others. The article has been written following a reflective piece of work with the ‘Action on Living Well: Asking You’ group to review and remember the work of the past four years. An accompanying film brings to life the work and activities of the group, available at www.idealproject.org.uk/mclass/
Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the National Institute for Health Research (UK) through grant ES/L001853/2 ‘Improving the experience of dementia and enhancing active life: living well with dementia’

One of the standard roles of educational psychologists is to conduct assessment and communicate the outputs in a form of psychoeducational reports, to suggest a guide for appropriate prevention and intervention work with children and adolescents with a variety of special educational needs to their parents, teachers and other professionals. However, the outcome of the examination is often not presented sufficiently, on an adequate level, to become a useful source of information for further work of educators, for reasonable accommodations and support. The presented diploma thesis aims to contribute on the basis of theoretical background and a presented qualitative research to extend a general theoretical framework on real usability of psychoeducational reports, implemented by school psychologists and the possibilities of optimizing the form and content of these reports. Specifically, the point is to improve the efficacy and usefulness of the report and make it optimally usable for the teacher or educational advisor when designing and implementing an individualized training plan for the pupil with special educational needs in an inclusive school-based setting. The thesis tries to map the usefulness of different kinds of psychological reports. Data collection was conducted via interviews. The target group...

The objective of this Thesis is a theoretical analysis of the educational counselling system and an analysis of the contemporary educational counselling system at primary school facilities in Usti nad Labem. The theoretical part disserts upon a system of school counselling services and from its structure resulting educational counselling system at primary schools. Theoretical experiences are then transformed into practical analysis of the Usti nad Labem educational counselling system settings which is amended by an investigation in the participiant institutions and an empirical probe, having been made with the usage of survey questionnares, between educational counsellors at primary schools in the city.