Baltic Journal of Career Education and Management

Number Vol. 4-1, 2016

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THE ROLE OF COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL PREPARING STUDENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL LIFE-CAREER

Authors: Dalia Augienė

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Career choice is one of the most important steps in person’s life. Contemporary way of life and fast pace change people’s perception about what is important for them, what is life purpose. Life-career conception is more and more actual, emphasizing not only professional person’s activity sphere, but also his life success, psychological satisfaction with his activity, self-realisation (Greenhaus, Callanan, 2006; Arnold, 1997; Baruch, 2001). Nowadays, it is difficult to imagine successful career otherwise than the person himself planned, developed and controlled process, therefore today career development is highlighted as one of the most important active labour market participant’s abilities.

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JOB SEARCHING HABITS OF LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED SOCIAL BENEFIT RECEIVERS IN LATVIA

Authors: Anna Bickovska

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Being long-term unemployed means having difficulties not only with job searching itself, but also with organizing the process smoothly in order to achieve results – find a job. The aim of the research was to identify job searching habits of long-term unemployed social benefit receivers in the context of career counseling. 89 long-term unemployed social benefit receivers took part in the survey. They were asked to fill a questionnaire about their job searching process – where and how they are doing it. None of the respondents have mentioned career counselor as a professional that they are seeking help from. The results show that long-term unemployed social benefit receivers prefer to search for job with friends or relatives’ help; they don’t have any CV or motivational letter ready to submit and they don’t want to attend any courses about preparing these documents. Most of the long-term unemployed social benefit receivers haven’t visited any job interview during the last two months.

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THE CORRELATION AMONG CAREER THOUGHTS, DIALYSIS VARIABLES AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF BAHAMIAN PERSONS DIAGNOSED WITH END STAGE RENAL DISEASE (ESRD) ON HEMODIALYSIS

Authors: Levette S. Dames, Mahmud Mansaray, Crystal McDowell

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Since men and women on dialysis need three time a week treatment, there can be an interruption in their work or career thus they can experience some dysfunctional career thought. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to explore the correlationship among dysfunctional career thoughts, dialysis variables and demographic characteristics of persons diagnosed with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) on hemodialysis in the Bahamas. The aim is to investigate the correlation among dysfunctional career thoughts and dialysis variables, and demographic characteristics (e.g. age, education, marital status). Persons living in the Bahamas on dialysis diagnosed with ESRD were recruited from a local hospital. Results revealed an overall effect of the participants’ characteristics on dysfunctional career thoughts was significant. Participants’ age between 19 and 28 had a positive correlation with the dysfunctional career thoughts. Accordingly, participants with junior high school certificates significantly have a negative effect on dysfunctional career thought. In addition, further results showed the marital status of participants, especially related to their non-married status, which appeared significant though this significance was weak. Implication for integration of career counseling and nursing implication for persons on dialysis have been developed.

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THE FOURTH/FINAL-YEAR UNIVERSITY STUDENT FUTURE PROFESSIONAL CAREER: UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURE

Authors: Vincentas Lamanauskas, Dalia Augienė

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University study period is not only professional qualification and certain competence acquisition. It is altogether a successive step to future career heights. Thus, it is undoubtedly important for the students to evaluate appearing possibilities as early as possible, to purposefully prepare for professional activity after university graduation. From the first days of the studies it is necessary for the students to start planning career, analysing career questions they are concerned about. On the other hand, every student’s individual career understanding, personal motivation to foresee vision and strategy in the direction of successful career is very important. Therefore, it is obvious, that it is important to analyse students’ position on their professional career questions. The aforementioned question solution requires reliable and adequate information. The research on university student career problematics latterly remain very urgent. It is believed, that analysing student positions on these questions it is obtained quite objective primary information. The empiric research (N=185) carried out between January-May 2016 showed, that the fourth year student career understanding basically is adequate, however, there exist understanding differences according to sex factor. Student career understanding structure has been revealed.

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CONNECTIVITY OF ATHLETES’ PERSONALITY TRAITS AND CAREER PERIOD AS THEIR PREDICTOR

Authors: Stanislava Stoyanova, Nikolay Ivantchev, Kremka Petrova

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Not only cognitive processes and training, but also personality traits are important for successful practicing of sport. 69 athletes were studied in Bulgaria by means of some computerized test methods from Vienna Test system (4DPI concerning their compatibility for team work, RISIKO concerning their readiness for risk-taking, AHA concerning their frustration tolerance and aspiration level) and three questionnaires concerning their aggression, neuroticism, and communicative self-control. The results indicated that some personality traits were interrelated. A group of relationships between the personality traits included neuroticism, communicative self-control, and physical aggression. Another group of relationships between the studied personality variables included compatibility for team work and readiness for risk-taking. Indirect aggression was a linking variable between aspiration level on the one hand, communicative self-control and physical aggression on the other hand, and also with readiness for risk taking. Frustration tolerance was not related to the other studied personality traits in the athletes. The period of sports experience, and age both predicted athletes’ compatibility. The period of sports experience also predicted athletes’ readiness for risk taking and indirect aggression. The importance of these findings for reducing traumatic experiences in athletes was discussed.