career

Examples of career in the following topics:

• Career Development: Vocation and Identity

  • Since the origination of Vocational Guidance in 1908, by the engineer Frank Parsons, the use of the term "vocation" has evolved to include the notion of using our talents and capabilities to good effect in choosing and enjoying a career.
  • In common parlance, a vocation refers to one's professional line of work or career, such as being a doctor.

• The Importance of Paid and Unpaid Work

  • An example of an internship is when a college student shadows a professional member of the career they are striving for to learn how to achieve their goals.
  • An internship is a system of on-the-job training for white-collar and professional careers.
  • Internships for professional careers are similar to apprenticeships for trade and vocational jobs.
  • They can also use an internship to determine if they have an interest in a particular career, create a network of contacts, or gain school credit.

• PhD Degree Occupations

  • A PhD in Sociology prepares an individual for a variety of career options, including all of those mentioned above for someone with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology (e.g., marketing, non-governmental organizations, etc.), but it also means you will be much better qualified for these types of jobs.
  • All of this additional training will prepare a PhD in Sociology for advanced careers in fields as diverse as corporate marketing and statistical forecasting to community organizing and lobbying.
  • A PhD in quantitative research and demography could lead to a career at the Census Bureau or the World Bank.

• Sociology Majors

  • Despite the many tests that suggest otherwise, there is no correlation between personality and career choice.
  • Unfortunately, most students (between 80% and 92%) are dissatisfied with the information provided on graduate school and career opportunities (hopefully this brief chapter will help fill this void).

• Migration

  • The likelihood of a given individual in the U.S. moving to another place in the U.S. in any given year has declined over the last 40 years.Only about 1 in 10 Americans have moved in the last year, which is about half the proportion that changed residences annually in the 1960s.The reduction in moves is attributable to aging populations (older people are less likely to move) and an increase in dual-career couples.Those who do move are generally driven by jobs.

• Gender Bias in the Classroom

  • Despite evidence of gender bias, female career access has made steady gains in recent years, due largely to the women's rights movement.
  • But why, one might ask, would women be more likely to choose college majors that will not benefit them in careers?

• Women in the Workplace

  • Despite the enormous progress women around the world have made in pursuing careers, there remain significant obstacles women confront in the workplace.
  • Women's access to occupations requiring capital outlays is also hindered by their unequal access (statistically) to capital; this affects individuals who want to pursue careers as entrepreneurs, farm owners and investors.
  • An additional issue that contributes to income inequality by gender is that women are much more likely than men to take "breaks" in their careers to have children (due to personal choice or as a result of circumstances).

• The Cross-Cultural Perspective

  • In most households, women are responsible for family budgets and make independent decisions about the education, careers, and life styles of their families.
  • But a new generation of educated woman is emerging who wishes to establish a career in the workforce.

• Class Structure in the U.S.

  • A commonly used model for thinking about social classes in the U.S. attributes the following general characteristics to each tier: the upper class has vast accumulated wealth and significant control over corporations and political institutions, and their privilege is usually inherited; the corporate elite consists of high-salaried stockholders, such as corporate CEOs, who did not necessarily inherit privilege but have achieved high status through their careers; the upper-middle class consists of highly educated salaried professionals whose occupations are held in high esteem, such as lawyers, engineers, and professors; the middle class (the most vaguely defined and largest social class) is generally thought to include people in mid-level managerial positions or relatively low status professional positions, such as high school teachers and small business owners; the working class generally refers to those without college degrees who do low level service work, such as working as a sales clerk or housekeeper, and includes most people whose incomes fall below the poverty line.
  • In other words, membership in a particular social class is based on educational and career accomplishments.

• Setting Goals

  • On a personal level, setting goals helps people work toward their own objectives, which are most commonly financial or career-based goals .