Examining the role of organizational climate on career adaptability and government employees' career intention

The purpose of this study is to determine the mediating and moderating factor of organizational climate on the relationship of career adaptability and career intention. A total of 991 employees from a government institution participated in the study. The results showed that there are significant relationships between organizational climate, career adaptability, and career intention. The organizational climate was found to mediate the relationship between career adaptability and career intention. However, the organizational climate has no moderating effect on career adaptability and career intention. The result will be useful in providing guidance in the design and development of programs that will strengthen the employees’ career intention and the overall perception of the organizational climate.

Sharia Value-Based Learning Environment and Students’ Career Choice

<p><em>The purpose of this study is to find out whether the sharia value-based learning environment influences the career choice of sharia economics students at Islamic Financial In</em><em>dustries</em><em> (IFIs). Learning is one of the crucial factors that could shape career choices referring to Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT).</em><em> </em><em>A quantitative approach is employed. </em><em>Questionnaires totaling 378 </em><em>were filled by students from</em><em> three (3) types of universities in East Java, Indonesia. </em><em>P</em><em>ath analysis and different tests using Partial Least Square (PLS) 3.0 and SPSS ver. Twenty-three</em><em> were conducted</em><em>.</em><em> </em><em>The weight of courses, learning, and lecturers' motivation positively affected career intention at IFIs. Students from the public–non-Islamic universities perceived the highest learning and motivation, and the lowest was public–Islamic universities. It might be because the Islamic culture at publi</em><em>c</em><em>-Islamic universities might form an ideal perspective for the contemporary IFIs. Besides, students who completed an internship at IFIs had the highest intention; meanwhile, students who have interned at non-IFIs showed the lowest career intention at IFIs.</em><em> </em><em>The implications of this study are learning environment should more involve sharia values. Besides, students should intern at IFIs to choose a career at IFIs to contribute to developing sharia economics.</em></p>

Career adaptability and career intention on government employees’ years of service and job level

Employees’ level of career intention plays an important role in organizational readiness and dynamism to achieve success. Several studies were conducted on career adaptability and career intention, however, only a few were able to find evidence on the influence of position and years in service to government employees in the Philippines. This study aims to determine the significant differences in career adaptability and career intention of government employees based on years of service and job level. Results showed a significant difference in career intention when grouped according to job level and years in service and no significant difference in career adaptability when grouped according to job level and years in service.

Survey Methods to Identify Risk of Attrition: Measures of Career Intention and Regret

The common measure of teacher retention as snapshots of those employed in state-funded schools may overestimate attrition by failing to consider a desire for flexibility in contemporary teaching careers. When used as a measure of the effectiveness of teacher education, an over-emphasis on classroom teacher supply may also narrow the curriculum to teacher training rather than the more expansive ‘learning teaching’. This paper discusses two ‘softer’ measures of retention, career intention and training regret, to give a more general sense of how contemporary teachers see their career development as relating to their initial teacher education and professional learning. These measures are generated by adapting survey questions from the OECD’s TALIS and the US’ Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study, simply asking teachers where they see themselves in five years’ time and if they would still choose to become a teacher if they could go back to before they began training. Surveys were administered annually to two cohorts of recent graduates as part of the Measuring Quality in Initial Teacher Education project—three data captures for 2018 graduates, two for 2019 graduates. It is shown how these measures help to mitigate declines in survey response and can give some helpful estimates of teacher attrition with respect to sex, ethnicity, school type, and degree type. The alternative measures are also argued to give helpful indicators of attrition risk before it happens, allowing discussion of how teachers’ career intentions change during their early careers. In particular, it is found that leaving the classroom is a fairly common expectation, but not necessarily because of teacher burnout. It is suggested that asking what teachers can imagine themselves doing is an effective measure for engaging with issues around vocational choice and teaching as a lifelong profession, with implications for how careers in education are conceptualised in initial teacher education programmes.

Motivation in teacher education: The forgotten element and its snowball effect

This research explores student teachers' motivation to join teacher education and its relation to their career intention to join the teaching profession. The qualitative study was conducted in the English department of private and state teacher education in Indonesia. A total of 14 student teachers (20-23 years old) took part in the interview. The findings show that most student teachers chose Initial Teacher Education (ITE) because of external motivation factors such as the alternative option of not being accepted at their desired faculty or following parents’ suggestions. Besides that, considering the internal motivation factor, one of the common reasons students chose English teacher education was the interest in English, which was also viewed as transferrable skills that could be useful to many other job possibilities. The findings show that only a few of the participants who prioritised their career to become teachers. The findings might contest the generalisation that often associates student teachers’ motivation to join teacher education to become teachers. Even though the assumption is valid to some extent, the nuances in the student teachers’ motivation to choose teacher education might need to be considered, especially in the context when joining teacher education is relatively easy because there is no high-stake test involved and teaching might be perceived as an unattractive career intention. The findings also indicate that as motivation is fluid, abstract, and hard to measure, teacher education overlooks this element in the admission process. However, forgetting the importance of student teachers’ motivation in teacher education could lead to a more severe problem in the quality of graduates and education in the long run.

Career intentions and perceptions of general practice on entry to medical school: baseline findings of a longitudinal survey at three UK universities

BackgroundMedical graduates from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge have a lower intention to become general practitioners compared to other UK medical graduates. It is not clear to what extent this difference is present on admission to medical school.AimTo compare the career intention and influencing factors of students on admission to different medical schools.Design & settingFirst year of a six year prospective cohort study of medical students admitted to the three East of England medical schools in Autumn 2020: University of East Anglia(UEA), University of Cambridge (UOC) and Anglia Ruskin University (ARU).MethodAn online survey instrument was administered at the start of the first year. This measured self-reported career interests and various influencing factors including perceptions of general practice.ResultsUOC students declared a lower intention to become a doctor, a higher likelihood of choosing careers in pathology and public health and a much lower likelihood of becoming a GP (all at P<0.001). In all three schools, the phrases least associated with general practice were “opportunities for creativity/innovation” and “research/academic opportunities” while the phrases most associated with general practice were “favourable working hours” and “flexibility”. However, research/academic opportunities were far more important, and favourable working hours far less important, to UOC students (P<0.001 for both).ConclusionsUOC students’ lower intention to become a GP appears to be present on entry to medical school. This may be explained in part by these students placing a higher importance on research/academic opportunities combined with the widely held perception that GP careers lack these opportunities.

Culinary Students’ Career Intention in the Hospitality Industry: The Importance of the Work Environment During Practical Training

The main objective of this study is to examine the importance of work environment during students’ practical training toward students’ career intention in the hospitality industry. This study uses a quantitative method through the distribution of self-administrated questionnaire surveys. Convenience sampling was selected from 159 culinary arts students at UiTM Cawangan Terengganu Kampus Dungun (UiTMCTKD). This sampling design was selected due to its high efficiency. The students had completed their practical training 2 weeks prior to data collection. Descriptive and inferential analyses were used to interpret the data. Findings from this study revealed that work environment influences students’ career intention toward pursuing employment in the hospitality industry after graduation. Keywords: Work Environment, Culinary, Career Intention, Practical Training, Hospitality Industry

The Negative Factors Influencing the Career Intention of General Practice Trainees in Eastern China: a Qualitative Study

Background: There is an acute shortage of general practitioners (GPs) in China, and most of those general practice trainees have low career intention. This study aimed to investigate negative factors influencing the career intention of GPs in eastern China from the perspective of trainees taking standardised residency training, as to identify the barriers for general practice trainees becoming registered GPs, and to provide a policy-making basis for GPs recruitment and retention.Methods: A qualitative design was carried out in two training bases of Jinan and Qingdao in eastern China. Face-to-face, in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted, audiotaped, and transcribed using thematic analysis.Results: twenty-one trainees participated in this study. Thematic analysis generated five major themes: (1) low social recognition, (2) low professional identity, (3) low remuneration level, (4) imperfect training system and (5) influence of policy factors. Conclusion: Our results identified various negative factors influencing the career intentions of trainees. In order to eliminate these factors and increase attractiveness of general practice, it is recommended that the government and the public should create a supportive environment, which can be beneficial to the construction and development of general practice.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Career Intention Among Undergraduate Medical Students: A Single-center Cross-Sectional Study in Hubei Province

Background：Undergraduate medical (UM) students faced the realities of the difficulties inherent in medical careers due to the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Thus imperative containment measures could affect UM students’ career intentions. There is limited information regarding the factors potentially associated with these students’ career change intentions.Methods：we conducted a cross-sectional survey to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on career intention and the associated factors in UM students in August 2020. Univariate analyses and logistic regression analysis were used to identify the factors that contributed to any change of career intention.Results: A total of 2,040 medical students were contained from Hubei University of Medicine. The change of career intention was related to grade, attitude towards being a health worker and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.Conclusions: Changes in career intentions were particularly influenced by grade, attitude towards being a health worker, and the degree of COVID-19’s impact on the participants’ lives. Treating large-scale public health emergencies in rational way, setting up correct views of occupation choice and building reasonable career planning may reduce the loss of medical talents.