Jobs and careers

Interviewees were asked to describe how they chose their jobs and career experiences in various employment sectors. One Cohort III industrial interviewee accepted a job primarily because oL s (a well known company) reputation in chemical research and the size of its research effort imchemistry. The interviewee continued ... 

Because so many different resume databases exist to which you can post your resume, for the best results pinpoint a handful of the most popular databases, based on the type of work for which you re looking. Choose five or so of the extremely popular, general interest, career-related sites, such as Hot Jobs and Career Mosaic, and then find a few databases that cater specifically to your industry, area of expertise, or trade. For example, most professional associations have their own website, and many allow their members to post their resumes. If you work in advertising, for example, find a few industry-oriented sites that cater to the advertising industry and post your resume on those sites. 

Barnett CW, KimberlinCL. 1984. Job and career satisfaction in pharmacy. ] Soc Admin Pharm 2 1. 

How do your managers and supervisors encourage and motivate employees to develop and utilize their full potential Include formal and/or informal mechanisms you use to encourage and support employees in job- and career-related development/learning objectives. 

The applications of algebra are numerous, which means that those interested in algebra can pursue jobs and careers in a wide range of fields, including business, engineering, and science, particularly computer science. 

Most students participating in the alternative career activity had also participated in the university s traditional job fair. The questionnaire asked them if this was a positive or negative experience. Then they were asked to weigh a satisfactory career against salary. Which did they find most important in their job and career search ... 

In that kind of situation, you either stick it out or quit. I decided to stick it out, because I actually liked my job and most of the people I worked with really liked me. One woman in particular offered her support. Others told me they, too, were experiencing sick building symptoms while at work. But everybody was watching their own career ladders and had to be careful. I didn t want to put anyone else in jeopardy. During the last two years I was forbidden to use the word fragrance, and my lunch buddy was told never to mention the word either. 

Wilson showed the increased movement of African Americans in white-collar jobs and attendant life styles similar to their white peers however, he speaks to the issue of career mobility and final positions commensurate with their education and career experience. Wilson s primary concern focused on the plight of the black underclass-whose life chances could not be attributed solely to race. Furthermore, economic trends that changed the structure of work limited the socioeconomic positions of the very poor regardless of race or ethnicity (Cose, 1993). 

Because my graduate study was supported by a fellowship, one condition was that I pursue an academic career. When I got to4 an historically black college), 1 realized immediately that I didn t want to be there. The politics and the environment were not good for me. So, I applied for an industrial job and received an offer. But my wife wasn t ready to move. Because my wife had supported me during my doctoral studies, she felt that it was time for me to be supportive of her while she gained some valuable career experience for a year or two. She held an administrative position on campus. My wife said that she wasn t ready to run from something. She wanted to run to something. So, we stayed another year. Then 1 took the job in industry. 

Behind every heroic moment, of course, are countless hours of preparation. Career firefighters are highly trained professionals. Their services are essential to every community and every stretch of land across this country. If you make this your career choice, rest assured that the need for firefighters is constant and the job prospects are promising. But this is a competitive field. Wherever you apply, you will need to show that you have what it takes to meet the demands of the job—and succeed in every stage of the hiring process. 

In the old days, when people were hired by a company, they were expected to remain employed by that company for their entire career, until retirement when they would receive a gold watch. Well, the days of gold watches are gone. These days, employees need to look out for themselves, while employers are constantly looking at the bottom line and consider new employees a financial investment and an impersonal commodity. Thus, during your career, you will probably change jobs and employers multiple times. 

What were your strongest and favorite subjects in school Is there a way to incorporate these interests into the job or career path you re p ursuing ... 

The good news is that the traditional approach to a career— which used to be to stay with one company for decades, if not for your entire career—is no longer expected. Most companies now realize that employees move from one company to another more frequently. So as long as you stay at a job and a company for a reasonable amount of time (which could be a year or two), employers no longer perceive this as frequent job hopping, but a desire to move quickly to a desired level and to get ahead. 

No matter what type of job or career path you re pursuing, be persistent and don t settle for anything less than what you know in your heart you deserve. Finally, don t rely on any one tool or resource when it comes to finding and landing a job. Sure, your resume is extremely important, but it s only one of the tools of which you will need to take advantage in order to land a job. 

Personal opportunities affect our personal lives. A potential job or career change, meeting a new person and possibly making a new friend, or considering a move to a new city are examples of personal opportunities. Although the methods discussed here can certainly be used in evaluating personal opportunities, they are not our primary concern and are not discussed further. 

Gaither CA, Mason HL. 1992. A model of pharmacists career commitment, organizational commitment and career and job withdrawal intentions. J Soc Admin Pharm 9 75. 

Desselle SP, Holmes ER. 2007. A structural model of CPhTs job satisfaction and career commitment. J Am Pharm Assoc 47 58. 

Ideally, the best job design for pharmacy would be the alignment of practitioner education and expectations with marketplace realities. Job design plays a role in determining the satisfaction and quality of work life for practitioners. If the education of pharmacists is for a market that does not exist or jobs that do not provide opportunities to exercise education and knowledge, dissatisfaction and career stagnation will result. 

One of the advantages of these multiple tracks is the flexibility in choices, particularly for dualcareer couples. These ladders enable people to take on new challenges, in many cases without having to relocate families, and grow within the same company or organization. For dual-career couples, this flexibility allows both partners to enjoy more fully their job or career choices, and while sacrifices are still in many cases required, the degree of sacrifice is somewhat less. 

This is academia. We have the most flexibility of any job, and yet here we are saying that if s easier in industry to have children. I do not understand this. When my children were born, I was at home, and I had group meetings at home—we have computers now, and we have all kinds of means of communication—so I was gone for just a month or two. Now, I have never taken a sabbatical—which is my personal choice—but I have colleagues who were on sabbatical, and I could not tell because I hadn t seen them in 2 or 3 years anyway. These are all side tracks off the main issue of integrating your life into your career. It is so terribly discouraging that for some reason academia is not perceived as a wonderful... 

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