scholarly journals It’s Not Where You Start or Where You Finish - It’s How You Get There

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
Christina L Wissinger ◽  
Kat Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Library School ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
The Way

A career in librarianship may start in a library science master’s program, but the path to and/or between career opportunities builds and shifts with time. This commentary discusses the career paths followed by two librarians who each attended the same master’s program and are currently both health science librarians at the same institution. While these similarities exist, the unique journeys each followed have helped to shape their approaches to their current jobs, roles within their careers, and their approaches to librarianship. From library school and first jobs, to current positions, this piece discusses how every step along the way has had a lasting impact on the authors’ careers.

Praxeology, Imperatives, and Shifts of View

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benj Hellie
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
First Person ◽  
Third Person ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Practical Metaphysics ◽  
The Way

Recent neo-Anscombean work in praxeology (aka ‘philosophy of practical reason’), salutarily, shifts focus from an alienated ‘third-person’ viewpoint on practical reason to an embedded ‘first-person’ view: for example, the ‘naive rationalizations’ of Michael Thompson, of form ‘I am A-ing because I am B-ing’, take up the agent’s view, in the thick of action. Less salutary, in its premature abandonment of the first-person view, is an interpretation of these naive rationalizations as asserting explanatory links between facts about organically structured agentive processes in progress, followed closely by an inflationary project in ‘practical metaphysics’. If, instead, praxeologists chase first-personalism all the way down, both fact and explanation vanish (and with them, the possibility of metaphysics): what is characteristically practical is endorsement of nonpropositional imperatival content, chained together not explanatorily, but through limits on intelligibility. A connection to agentive behavior must somehow be reestablished—but this can (and can only) be done ‘transcendentally’.

scholarly journals Evaluation of a health sciences internship for Latino and Native American library students

2017 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla Keselman, PhD, MA ◽  
Sanjana Quasem, BS ◽  
Janice E. Kelly, MLS ◽  
Gale A. Dutcher, MS, MLS, AHIP
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Library ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
American Students

Purpose: This paper presents a qualitative evaluation of a graduate-level internship for Latino and Native American library science students or students who are interested in serving those populations.Methods: The authors analyzed semi-structured interviews with thirteen internship program graduates or participants.Results: The analysis suggests that the program increased participants’ interest in health sciences librarianship and led to improved career opportunities, both in health sciences libraries and other libraries with health information programming. It also highlights specific factors that are likely to contribute to the strength of career pipeline programs aiming to bring Latino and Native American students and students who are interested in serving those communities into health librarianship.Conclusions: Exposing graduate-level interns to a broad range of health sciences librarianship tasks, including outreach to Latino and Native American communities and formal mentorship, is likely to maximize interns’ interests in both health sciences librarianship and service to these communities.

The Societal Impact of World Wide Web - Key Challenges for the 21st Century

2011 ◽  
pp. 88-106
Author(s):  
Janice M. Burn ◽  
Karen D. Loch
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Definite Effect ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
The Way

Many lessons from history offer strong evidence that technology can have a definite effect on the social and political aspects of human life. At times it is difficult to grasp how supposedly neutral technology might lead to social upheavals, mass migrations of people, and shifts in wealth and power. Yet a quick retrospective look at the last few centuries finds that various technologies have done just that, challenging the notion of the neutrality of technology. Some examples include the printing press, railways, and the telephone. The effects of these technologies usually begin in our minds by changing the way we view time and space. Railways made the world seem smaller by enabling us to send goods, people, and information to many parts of the world in a fraction of the time it took before. Telephones changed the way we think about both time and distance, enabling us to stay connected without needing to be physically displaced. While new technologies create new opportunities for certain individuals or groups to gain wealth, there are other economic implications with a wider ranging impact, political and social. Eventually, as the technology matures, social upheavals, mass migrations and shifts in economic and political power can be observed. We find concrete examples of this dynamic phenomenon during the Reformation, the industrial revolution, and more recently, as we witness the ongoing information technology revolution.

Career Opportunities in Power Generation

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott T. Cloyd
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Job Opportunities

The Power Generation Industry has a wide variety of challenging career opportunities for engineers. This paper provides an overview of the types of job opportunities that are currently available within the fossil fuel segment of the industry with a focus on gas and steam turbine based power plants. The challenges within these jobs and ability to alter career paths as individual interests’ change are also described.

scholarly journals Get that next job—how to break out of the postdoc trap

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (21) ◽  
pp. 3700-3703
Author(s):  
Yvonne Klaue
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Postdoctoral Researchers

In the past, the majority of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers were focused on careers in academia. Times have changed, and many are now considering careers outside of academia and are aware of numerous exciting career opportunities in industry and nonprofit and government organizations. However, although it is easy to find resources about academic careers, the same cannot be said for positions outside the ivory tower. Here, on the basis of my experience as a scientist and as someone who works with graduate students and postdocs to help them enter nonacademic career paths, I provide a perspective on career development and how to find a job.

scholarly journals Life Stories and Interculturality

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Éva Toldi
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
True Story ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Traumatic Life Events ◽  
Identity Shifts ◽  
Background Events ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article examines two short stories: Teréz Müller’s Igaz történet [A True Story] and József Bálint senior’s Imádkozzál és dolgozzál [Pray and Work]. The argument explores the way the texts reflect on shifts in power in the Hungarian region of Vojvodina, and the way power structures define the relationship between majority and minority in a society that undergoes constant and radical changes. Contemporary historical events of the twentieth century, changes, faultlines, traumatic life events and identity shifts emerge as the contexts for these narratives of the daily experiences of a Jewish merchant family and a farmer family respectively. Thus, the two texts analysed are representative works rooted in two fundamentally different social backgrounds. The discourse about the I is always also about the other; the construction of identity is already in itself a dialogic, intercultural act, which makes it an ideal topic for the exploration of the changes and shifts in one’s own and the other’s cultural identity. Translational processes of transmission are also required for the narration of traumatic experiences. Teréz Müller was the grandmother of the Serbian writer Aleksandar Tišma. Her book is not primarily a document of their relationship; however, it does throw light on diverse background events of the writer’s life and oeuvre. Comparing the experiences of identity in the autobiographical novel of Aleksandar Tišma and the recollections of his grandmother reveals geocultural characteristics of their intercultural life experiences.

scholarly journals Career Paths of German Business Administration Academics

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinke Röbken
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Business Professors

The question of how the career path for professors should be structured is a central issue in the current debate on reforming higher education in Germany. In order to substantiate current discussions on promotion and faculty development this study presents empirical data on the biographies of 699 professors of business administration at German universities. The internet-based data collection provides descriptive analyses on the pathways to the professiorate, including age, sex, educational background, mobility and social networks of business professors. The results suggest that career opportunities for academics in business administration vary widely across different age cohorts. Business professors in Germany show a high mobility, and the ability to accumulate social capital differs significantly between male and female professors. The implications for policy makers and young academics are discussed.

scholarly journals The Territorial Representativeness of Italian Ministerial Elites: From the Regional “Parity Norm” to the Rise of Technocrats

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Filippo Tronconi ◽  
Luca Verzichelli
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Party System ◽  
Geographical Origin ◽  
Political Career ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
The Third ◽  
Northern League ◽  
Territorial Representation ◽  
The Way

Abstract The territorial composition of governments (that is, the geographical origin of its members) has received little attention from political scientists. However, prime ministers, ministers, and junior ministers clearly have a territorial characterization and preferential attachments to specific places that can potentially affect the way decisions are made and resources are allocated. In this article, we focus on these aspects, showing the evolution of the territorial representativeness of Italian governmental elites over the last four decades and proposing some interpretations of its changes. In particular, we describe the transition from a balanced regional representation (the “parity norm”) to a multitude of different patterns of territorial representation that we observe across parties nowadays. We propose three explanations for such changes: the first is based on the transformation of the party system in the nineties, with the emergence of parties such as the Northern League, with a specific regional focus; the second is based on the regionalization of the Italian state and its consequences on political career paths; the third is based on the increasing recruitment of technocrats in ministerial offices.

scholarly journals To a Higher Degree

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (03) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Kevin D. Kuznia
Keyword(s):  
Advanced Degree ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Mba Students ◽  
Engineering Discipline ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Actual Degree ◽  
Master Level ◽  
The Right

This paper focuses on ways to decide which advanced course of study is the best option for the career. The paper highlights that unlike the latitude offered to MBA students, the same variety of programs will not be found in engineering. There are very few accelerated master level engineering programs, but typically, one will have the advantage of not having to take prerequisites to start the program. However, unlike an MBA, which may require engineers to take prerequisite business classes before they start the actual degree program, in a master’s program in engineering, engineers will typically be allowed to take master’s level classes immediately. The MSE is marketable, but in a unique way from an MBA. However, many individuals outside the engineering discipline will have scant knowledge of just how this degree contributes to the organization. The MBA, on the other hand, is a widely recognized degree, and many people within and outside of engineering understand how an MBA contributes to an organization’s success. Both degrees can contribute to career advancement. It is important to let others know how this advanced education contributes to the goals of the organization. Deciding to obtain an advanced degree, whether it is in engineering or business, requires a commitment of time, effort, and expense. However, more important, the right degree can make an enormous difference in career opportunities.

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