Baltic Journal of Career Education and Management

Number Vol. 3-1, 2015

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LIFELONG LEARNING AS A SUCCESSFUL CAREER CONDITION

Authors: Dalia Augienė

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Today we live and work in a hardly prognosticated time of changes. The diversity of opened possibilities, information technology abundance, economic, political situation instability, social changes – all this characterises the environment, in which we work. In the present world, information, knowledge, creativity become a crucial factor of success and competitiveness, the main economy and society developing factor. Present society is an information, creative society, in which a person has to learn practically all his life, to take over the knowledge, created in the world, to use it, to create new knowledge and to hand it over to others. Lifelong learning is necessary seeking to prepare employees to compete in global knowledge economy and to adapt to live in digital and high technology society. However, there are a lot of other important reasons. Lifelong learning also encourages: participation in community, social cohesion, more equal distribution of income and life quality getting better, which includes bigger payment, better health and bigger professional career satisfaction.

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PEDAGOGUE’S CAREER: SATISFACTION AND DISATISFACTION FACTORS WITH PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Authors: Dalia Augienė, Vaida Repovienė

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Teacher’s role in today’s society is extremely important. It is expected, that teachers will educate active knowledge society members, will train the necessary abilities to achieve economic prosperity. Therefore, teacher’s satisfaction with his activity has a distinctive meaning educating young generation. Pedagogues’ work motivation and satisfaction with work affect the quality of their teaching subject and can have great significance to the pupils’ learning, to the high academic results of the pupils, strengthen their motivation and wish to improve. Therefore, this research deals with early, middle and late career pedagogues’ satisfaction and dissatisfaction with their professional career factors. It has been sought to ascertain how teachers understand their career, what aspects they distinguish in it, which of their roles they consider the most important, how they evaluate pedagogue status in society, which factors related with pedagogical activity raise satisfaction and dissatisfaction with their career. The obtained results allowed identifying, depending on pedagogue’s career stage, certain differences and similarities evaluating pedagogue status in society, the performed role content, satisfaction and dissatisfaction with pedagogical activity factors. It turned out, that especially many late career stage pedagogues accentuate low pedagogue status in society. Pedagogues identify low pedagogue status in society with the low pedagogue professional prestige. Early career pedagogues value pedagogue status in society most optimistically. As the main factor of satisfaction with pedagogical activity the great majority of early, middle and late career pedagogues name the possibility to realise themselves, as the most important factor of dissatisfaction with pedagogical activity - poor education system funding.

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UNIVERSITY STUDENT PROFESSIONAL CAREER: CAREER MANEGEMENT COMPETENCY STRUCTURE

Authors: Vincentas Lamanauskas, Dalia Augienė

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University studies is a significant stage for future career designing. It is obvious, that certain competencies are being formed and form during that period. It is likely, that their significance is different, and also certain differences in terms of sex are possible. Research on student career problems in the latter years remain actual. It is likely, that analysing students’ positions on these questions, sufficiently objective initial information is obtained. Empirical research (N=265), carried out between October to December, 2014 showed, that six most important career management competencies are significant for students. Carried out career management competency internal structure analysis showed, that problem solving competency (SI=0.89) is the most significant one, the leadership competency (SI=0.74) is the least important. However, evaluating according to significance index, one can claim, that all discerned competencies are sufficiently significant. It has been stated, that problem solving, social, change management and self-awareness competencies are statistically more important for female students than male.

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BULGARIAN STUDENTS' CAREER MOTIVATION AND CAREER CHOICE

Authors: Nikolay Ivantchev, Stanislava Stoyanova

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Career motivation is related to career choice. Several studies of Bulgarian students’ career motivation were conducted in 2007, 2013 and 2015. A questionnaire based on Moses typology of career motivators was used. The studied students were compared by specialties and years of study. Several career motivators have been stable during the years. More and more Stability seeking is substituting Lifestylers (private life is more important than professional duties are) as leading career motivation.