‘Professions and Career’ Archives
Knowledge Work
Knowledge Work The term knowledge work refers to a profession that utilizes intellectual capital to create, teach, and problem solve. Knowledge work requires significant cognitive activity and dedication to continuous learning on behalf of the practitioner. Day-to-day knowledge work consists of nonroutine and nonrepetitive activities. [...]
Internet Recruitment
Internet Recruitment Since the early 1990s, there has been a dramatic change in the process of employee recruitment due to the emergence of the Internet as a significant means of exchanging employment information. The Internet is used today around the world by organizations of all sizes and in every industry. Job seekers can leverage the [...]
Career Exploration
Career Exploration An individual engages in career exploration as a way of gathering information about self and the environment, with a goal of fostering progress and career development. Although proactive career exploration is common when individuals undergo a career transition and when they are faced with the need to make an imminent career [...]
Career Decision Scale
Career Decision Scale Samuel H. Osipow, with a colleague and several graduate students, developed the Career Decision Scale (CDS) at The Ohio State University (OSU) in the mid-1970s. First published by Marathon Press of Columbus, Ohio, the scale and its manual have been available from Psychological Assessment Resources of Odessa, Florida, since [...]
Team-based Work
Team-based Work For an increasing number of jobs, the future belongs to teams. Due to the complexity of tasks, the need to integrate multiple perspectives and disciplines into work products and services, and/or the sheer volume of work, more people than ever will find themselves working in teams. For the many who have not been well trained for [...]
Rokeach Values Survey
Rokeach Values Survey The Rokeach Values Survey (RVS) was originally developed in 1973 by Milton Rokeach. The RVS is one of the most extensively used measures of human values and is utilized by career counselors to assess clients’ values as they relate to the world of work. The RVS is a 36-item inventory consisting of 18 terminal values or [...]
Reverse Discrimination
Reverse Discrimination Reverse discrimination claims often arise out of an employer’s attempt to honor either affirmative action programs or diversity initiatives focusing on attracting more women and minorities in the workplace. Lawsuits alleging reverse race discrimination generally fall under the rubric of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act [...]
New Professionalism
New Professionalism In the 1890s, when squalor, congestion, disease, crime, and general inefficiency were approaching nightmarish proportions in American cities, a group of well-heeled amateurs emerged with a variety of reforms intended to humanize urban conditions. As their numbers increased and their efforts matured, these reformers created [...]
American Lawyers
Video Are Lawyers Evil? American Lawyers Professionals educated in graduate programs and licensed by state bar associations to prepare and plead cases in lower courts and appeals courts, as well as to provide legal counsel to clients. The adversarial nature of the American common-law system provides lawyers a broad and flexible role. [...]
Job Corps
Job Corps One of two work-experience programs established for low-income adolescents and post-adolescents by the ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT, or WAR ON POVERTY, in 1965. Designed for young men and women between the ages of 16 and 24, the Job Corps is a $1.5- billion-a-year residential program in which more than 60,000 members live away from home [...]
