How to get ahead in quantum tech

The purpose of the article is to study the biography of B.M. Gordon as a successful security officer in the 1920-s and 1930-s. He worked his way up the career ladder from a junior investigator to the head of regional divisions – territorial bodies of the VChK/GPU/OGPU/NKVD and the legal residency of the INO GUGB of NKVD in Germany. Having started his chekist service in the Orel province, he served in the South – Central Asia, in the North – in Arkhangelsk province,in the capital of the USSR, and in the capital of Nazi Germany – Berlin. Gordon fought with the white guards and evicted the dispossessed peasants, controlled the Soviet military and gathered information about the armies of foreign countries; he managed to work at both Soviet and party work. Finally, the energetic work and successful career led Boris Moiseyevich Gordon to his death, when in 1937, J.V. Stalin decided to destroy completely all the former operational leadership of the state security agencies, replacing it with new personnel.

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Back from the Future

10.1093/oso/9780190901226.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Catherine Rottenberg

Keyword(s):

Positive Affect ◽

Professional Women ◽

The Self ◽

Ivy League ◽

Younger Women ◽

Technologies Of The Self ◽

Successful Career ◽

Family Balance ◽

The Future ◽

Work Family

Chapter 4 examines two well-trafficked mommy blogs written by Ivy League–educated professional women with children. Reading these blogs as part of the larger neoliberal feminist turn, the chapter demonstrates how neoliberal feminism is currently interpellating middle-aged women differently from their younger counterparts. If younger women are exhorted to sequence their lives in order to ensure a happy work-family balance in the future, for older feminist subjects—those who already have children and a successful career—notions of happiness have expanded to include the normative demand to live in the present as fully and as positively as possible. The turn from a future-oriented perspective to “the here and now” reveals how different temporalities operate as part of the technologies of the self within contemporary neoliberal feminism. This chapter thus demonstrates how positive affect is the mode through which technologies of the self-direct subjects toward certain temporal horizons.

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Career Paths of Campus Recreational Sport Directors

Recreational Sports Journal ◽

10.1123/rsj.31.2.146 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 146-155 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Craig M. Ross ◽

Terese Schurger

Keyword(s):

Career Paths ◽

Sport Management ◽

Professional Organizations ◽

Sport Administration ◽

Web Based ◽

Recreational Sport ◽

Successful Career ◽

Study Results ◽

Practical Experiences ◽

Relevant Factors

The purpose of this study was to examine the job profiles and career paths taken by directors in campus recreational sport. Using a Web-based survey of 52 closed-ended and 2 open-ended items, the study results provided a rich overview of the perceptions, issues, and patterns that 145 current directors identified as relevant factors contributing to successful career paths in campus recreational sport administration. Overall, the results of the study revealed that future campus recreational sport directors must gain diverse practical experiences, be actively involved in professional organizations, learn how to network effectively with professionals both at the institutional and nationwide levels, and be passionate about recreational sport management.

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Medical interest groups and work policies as emerging determinants of a successful career: A student perspective - Correspondence

International Journal of Surgery ◽

10.1016/j.ijsu.2021.106020 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 106020

Author(s):

Juan Alberto Miranda-Pacheco ◽

Susana Andrea De Santis-Tamara ◽

Sergio Leonel Parra-Pinzón ◽

Jhon Jairo González-Monterroza ◽

Ivan David Lozada-Martínez

Keyword(s):

Interest Groups ◽

Student Perspective ◽

Successful Career ◽

Medical Interest

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Evaluation of Personality Traits for a Successful Career of Engineers

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.657.1056 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 657 ◽

pp. 1056-1060

Author(s):

Armin Betz

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Present Situation ◽

The Other ◽

Innovative Approach ◽

Personality Test ◽

Aptitude Testing ◽

Successful Career ◽

The One

Various research on aptitude testing has been accomplished yet [1,2,. Experiences from many years of HR consulting and knowledge of the industrys needs regarding to and lack of specific scientific research in aptitude testing for engineers emerged into research acivities in this field. The paper presents the data and main results of the field of aptitude testing for engineers. Its present situation as well as the reasons for that are considered and its necessity is shown. The gotten insights are presented: the existence of personality traits typical for engineers, the existence of key criteria and deduction of HR development measures necessary for a career. A newly developed personality test was applied to the occupational area of engineers. With more than 1400 tests conducted, many deductions were possible.Through the innovative approach of standard profiles of corresponding average groups rather than with demografic equivalent results could be derived. These are typical traits on the one side and development areas on the other.

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Tonsils, Adenoids, and Albert Kaiser

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.42.3.546 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 42 (3) ◽

pp. 546-547

Author(s):

Alfred Yankauer

Keyword(s):

Recent Discussion ◽

Medical Educator ◽

Successful Career ◽

The City

Tonsils and adenoids, like the weather, provide such an inexhaustible fund of discussion that one wonders if they were not invented by doctors for this purpose. Dr. Haggerty's recent discussion in Pediatrics1 and his references to Dr. Albert D. Kaiser impel me to correct a statement which is historically incorrect and to draw attention to the achievements of a rather remarkable pediatrician. My information is based upon conversations with Dr. Kaiser in 1950-1952 when he had become Commissioner of Health in the city of Rochester, the culmination of a long and successful career as pediatric practitioner, medical educator, and researcher.

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Market meets nationalism: making entrepreneurial state subjects in post-Soviet Russia

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1080/00905992.2011.565320 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 393-408 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Martin Müller

Keyword(s):

Good Life ◽

Market Value ◽

Global Marketplace ◽

Successful Career ◽

Elite University ◽

Soviet Russia ◽

Two Sides

This paper argues that nationalism and neoliberalism should not be considered as conflicting ideologies, but can enter into a productive association. This association creates an entrepreneurial nationalism that people can actively embrace as self-governing subjects in pursuit of a good life and successful career, rather than as subjects governed through state-mandated projects from above. The paper illustrates this argument with material from nine months of fieldwork at a Russian elite university. While students at that university strive to develop their potential and increase their market value to be successful in the competition for the best jobs, they also emphasize that developing themselves is not antithetical to serving Russia and being true to one's country. On the contrary, advancing Russia and advancing one's own career are articulated as two sides of the same coin. At the same time, the Russian nationalist project is reframed in entrepreneurial terms: making the Russian nation strong is about developing its potential and raising its competitiveness in the global marketplace.

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