Career transition applicants

One of the key objectives associated with providing risk and hazard information is to help set realistic safety expectations. That is, the provision of safety and hazard information can form a realistic safety preview. Chapter 3 describes four different types of job applicant and described how the four types vary in terms of safety expectations and previous job experience. Job applicants classified as school leaver or career transition applicants will have the least amount of relevant job experience and are likely to have the most unrealistic safety expectations. Clearly, safety expectation setting procedures will be of most benefit to those job applicants. However, it would be unwise to forgo the use of a realistic safety preview, based on the assumption that the job applicant, because of their previous experience, would not benefit from the process. Tables 3.1 and 3.2, in Chap. 3, show that there are safety risks associated with aU job applicants, including career-focused applicants, and these can be reduced by providing a realistic safety preview. Thus, it is... 

Some students take advanced degrees in business or law, which prepare them to make careers outside science. Others find work that uses all their qualifications. Both kinds of career transition can occur within one company if it is large or growing. But student-employees must be alert to the possibility that to work immediately in their new fields they may have to find employment in a different corporation or location. No company that initially hires a chemist thereby guarantees later employment to the same person as a lawyer. A new attorney wishing to continue his employment in law but not in science must hunt work like any other job applicant. 

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