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The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the processes and influences that underlie the choice of retired elite athletes to further their education and assume the adult learner role. In the current study, focus was applied specifically to professional ice hockey players who were in a period of retirement from active play. Elite athletes often retire at a time when most other professions are just beginning or reaching a level of stability. Research suggests that many retired elite athletes experience a difficult transition to an early retirement from athletics that is fraught with depression and unemployment. A select number of these elite athletes choose to further their educations after their careers have expired. The literature suggests that some of these retired elite athletes find educational programming a valuable coping strategy in the often traumatic post-athletic career adjustment. Unfortunately, this choice is made by only few athletes. It would be desirable to encourage more retired athletes to consider and engage in educational activities; however, currently, there is only very little knowledge on the processes underlying athletes' choice to participate, or not to participate, in education in their retirement years. Using a theoretical framework that includes adult learning theory and adult development theory, in conjunction with expectancy-value theory of motivation, the impact of individual characteristics and environmental opportunities on post-athletic career choices made by professional athletes may be better understood. The primary instrument for data collection was a personal interview with ten retired professional hockey players, conducted over a consecutive six-month period resulting in significant data. Utilizing the constant-comparative method for data analysis, common themes were identified as indicators of educational engagement: Informal Mentorship, Head Injury Related Retirement, and Pre-Transition Planning. In addition to these themes, the findings reflected an alternative adult developmental model possibly unique to professional hockey players. The findings of this study are valuable to the larger conversation regarding adult learners, adult development, and elite athlete career transition. / Educational Administration

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:44:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciana de Magalhaes Pereira.pdf: 1233819 bytes, checksum: 37994f8e62d4a209d4a04f9616da3aea (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / It is becoming increasingly natural that professionals make transitions in their careers, so, change in the nature of work, the assignments, activities and responsibilities that constitute a change of identity. The transition is the time through which the individual is changing the settings of his work, is coming out of an activity towards another with different characteristics and requirements; when there is a change, which can be deep or not in the professional paper. The present study aims to analyze the reasons for the career transition to university teaching, the career anchors and more prevalent motivational types in the researched public. A literature review was conducted to identify the key concepts of career, types of career, transition, personal values, challenges and opportunities of university teaching. This feature research is exploratory and the type is a case study with business professors in a higher education institution in the city of São Paulo. The instruments used are: Questionnaire to identify personal and professional profile, as well as reasons for the transition to university teaching career; questionnaire to identify the career anchor and the motivational type of each participant. The data analysis is qualitative and quantitative. The results indicate that the main reasons for the transition were found the opportunity rise and "old dream". The career anchor more present is Service and Dedication to a Cause and the motivational type Universalism. It is found at the end of the work that the results coincide with the characteristics of career transition particularities and characteristics inherent to university teaching, studied in this work / É cada vez mais natural que os profissionais façam transições em suas carreiras, ou seja, mudança na natureza do trabalho, nas atribuições, atividades e responsabilidades, que configurem uma mudança de identidade. A transição é o momento pelo qual o indivíduo está mudando as configurações de seu trabalho, está saindo de uma atividade rumo a outra com características e exigências diferentes; quando há uma mudança, podendo ser profunda ou não, no papel profissional. O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar as razões da transição de carreira para a docência universitária, as âncoras de carreira e tipos motivacionais mais predominantes no público pesquisado. Foi realizado um levantamento bibliográfico para identificar os principais conceitos de carreira, tipos de carreira, transição, valores pessoais, desafios e oportunidades da docência universitária. Esta pesquisa é de caráter exploratório e o tipo é um estudo de caso com professores de administração em uma instituição de ensino superior da cidade de São Paulo. Os instrumentos utilizados são: questionário para identificar perfil pessoal e profissional, bem como razões para a transição à carreira docente universitária; questionário para identificar a âncora de carreira e o tipo motivacional de cada participante. A análise de dados é qualitativa e quantitativa. Os resultados apontaram que as principais razões encontradas para a transição foram o surgimento de oportunidade e sonho antigo . A âncora de carreira mais presente é Serviço e Dedicação a uma Causa e o tipo motivacional Universalismo. É constatado no final da pesquisa que os resultados coincidem com as particularidades da transição de carreira e as características inerentes à docência universitária, estudados neste trabalho

轉職對於職涯發展來說，是非常重要的人生課題；而求職者目前在面臨轉職問題時，大多時候顯得手足無措，只能詢問親友的經驗或者憑著直覺找自己有興趣的工作；整個求職的過程就像是拿人生當賭注，運氣不好時即可能賠上美好的未來。 本篇研究使用國內某知名人力銀行的求職者資料，採用資料科學的方式，利用大量求職者的實際轉職資料來做資料分析與探勘，分析轉職高峰期、工作轉換頻率、跨職類轉職、跨產業轉職及轉職與景氣的關係，並使用J48、Naïve Bayesian Classifier、Logistic Regression、Random Forest、AdaBoost和Support Vector Machines這6種分類方法來預測轉職行為。 為了方便呈現實驗結果，本研究使用Google App Engine建立了一個轉職分析查詢系統，透過分析結果可以了解台灣各產業與各職類的轉職趨勢，而轉職預測功能也可以提供給求職者與人資人員做為參考。 / Career transition is important for employees. However, most of job seekers are helpless in decision of career transition. They can only make the decision based on the experience from their friends and family members, or by intuition. The decision of job seeking is like a gamble that may lose a better future when they faced with bad luck. This research tried to analyse and discover the behaviours of job transition from the job seeking data based on the data science approach. The job seeker’s data used in the study was obtained from the well-known job bank’s database. We analyse the behaviours of the job transition, including the peak months of transition, transition frequency, cross-job and cross-industry career transition. Moreover, we investigate the methods to predict the behavior of job transfer. Six kinds of classification algorithms were used to predict the behavior of career transfer, including the J48, Naïve Bayesian Classifier, Logistic Regression, Random Forest, AdaBoost and SVM. We develop the web-based Career Transition Analysis System to provide users the capability for behaviour analysis and prediction of career transition based on Google App Engine. The findings in this study are helpful for industry trends and career transition forecasts for job seeker and human resource staffs.

The purpose of the study was to investigate cultural transition experience in elite football. More specifically, to explore three Swedish football players experience of their first transition abroad when relocating to play professional football in Europe. A narrative inquiry approach was used, with help of the cultural transition model (Ryba, Stambulova, & Ronkainen, 2016) a semi-structured interview guide was created. The cultural transition model was also used as a lens for analyzing the data. The participants were non-randomly sampled and recruited with help from the Swedish Football Federation. Four players responded positively and initiated the interview, three was fully conducted while one dropped out. The data were analyzed with holistic-content and categorical-content analysis to show three unique pathways but also common themes of their cultural transitions. The first result showed the uniqueness of the players pathways; preparing for the worst and saved by the football bubble, taking responsibility and a key role as a foreign player to gain respect in the team, and a big step for personal development: from homesickness to being hungry for more. Secondly, the result showed that the participant shared experience in the cultural transition process which are presented in 12 themes (e.g. Pre-transition phase: satisfaction in Swedish club before leaving, Acute cultural adaptation phase: adjustment in football as first priority in host culture, and Sociocultural adaptation: perceived ability and efficacy to adjust to new cultural settings). In conclusion, adaptation in football was prioritized during the first period of relocation, that means that they fully invested to show that they were good. However, after this first phase, having a meaningful life besides football became one of the most important things to feel satisfied. Although there are still questions unanswered regarding cultural transition in elite football, implications to Swedish Football Federation were given in further working with professional players who go abroad.

<p>Developing engineering talent in organizations has long been an issue for industries. Notably, with rapidly changing business models and flattened organizational structures, engineers are required to transition into managerial and leadership roles more quickly than ever before. Yet engineers and employers alike often characterize this as a difficult transition. Further, there remains a lack of empirical research on the nature of engineering managerial work practices. To address these issues, this dissertation aims to holistically uncover the experiences of recently transitioned engineering managers. Specifically, the study investigates the meaning-making and experiences of the participants’ transitional journeys and also addresses related questions such as what changes and challenges they face during the transition and how they navigate the challenges associated with the transition. The study is examined through the lens of work-role transition frameworks and models that emphasize the role of the individual in the transition.</p> <p>In order to address the research objectives, an interpretive qualitative study is employed. To explore and understand the lived experiences of recently transitioned engineering managers, I conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 newly transitioned engineering managers at a Telecom firm in the United States. The interviews were then used to develop narrative accounts of participants describing their journeys of transition. The interviews were also analyzed thematically to identify: a) specific patterns in how the participants experience and make sense of their transition to engineering managerial roles; b) changes experienced by engineers during the transition; c) challenges faced by engineers as they transition to managerial roles, and d) new skills developed by participants to navigate the transition. </p> <p>The findings suggest that most engineers struggled with the transition, especially during the early stages. This difficulty in part stems from the various personal changes that they experience as a result of the transition, changes related to their individual cognitive, physiological, and social aspects. Moreover, the transition experiences are also impacted by both the situational factors of the individual (e.g., demographics, career progression) as well as the organizational factors, including HR policies related to training and development, dual pathway offerings, etc. The findings in this study, in part presented as narratives, are expected to contribute to the field of engineering education and practice by providing insights into the experiences of engineering professionals taking up managerial and leadership roles. More specifically, the narratives are expected to serve as examples and provide inspiration for engineers at a variety of career stages. The thematic findings are also expected to help students, engineering educators, engineering leadership faculty, and industry affiliates understand and improve the managerial transition process and associated role expectations, which for the most part, remain largely unexplored. </p>

The aim of this study is to describe the experience of social support among female elite athletes who combine handball with higher education, with the underlying purpose to describe these persons’ experience of the functions of the support. These functions are materialistic, informative and emotional. There are ten women in the ages 22 to 24 (M=23.1, S=0,83) participating in the study. The study uses a semi-structured interview, based on two articles that studied social support (Knight et al., 2018; Schaefer et al., 1981). The result was sorted in three categories: emotional support, materialistic support and informative support. The result showed that women experienced emotional support, especially affinity, in the dual career (DC). Materialistic support was experienced in terms of support thru adjustment from coach and university. However, materialistic support was also identified lacking. Lastly, informative support, in shape of information and guidance in dual career, was experienced missing. / Syftet med studien är att beskriva upplevelsen av socialt stöd hos kvinnliga elithandbollsspelare som kombinerar elitidrott med högre utbildning, med det underliggande syftet att beskriva dessa personers upplevelser av stödets funktioner, så som materiellt, informativt och känslomässigt. I studien deltog tio kvinnor i åldrarna 22-24 år (M=23,1, S=0,83). Studien använde en semistrukturerad intervju, som var baserad på två artiklar där socialt stöd studerats (Knight et al., 2018; Schaefer et al., 1981). Resultatet sorterades i tre kategorier; känslomässigt stöd, materiellt stöd och informativt stöd. Resultatet påvisar att kvinnorna upplevde känslomässigt stöd i dubbla karriären (DK), där framför allt samhörighet med andra upplevde stötta kvinnorna. Kvinnorna upplevde också materiellt stöd, i form av anpassningar från både tränare och universitet/högskolepersonal. Resultatet visar även att flera kvinnor upplevde att de saknade denna typ av materiellt stöd i deras DK. Till sist identifierades kvinnorna uppleva att de saknade även informativt stöd i form av vägledning och information i DK.

La transition de carrière est un phénomène inhérent aux arts de la scène et notamment aux arts du cirque. Le caractère souvent contraint de la transition et la difficulté pour ceux qui l’entreprenne relève d’un enjeu majeur pour l’ensemble des acteurs circassiens. Cependant, peu d’études se sont intéressées à la dynamique de la transition de carrière dans les arts du cirque. À l’heure où la pandémie de la COVID-19 contraint les employeurs à suspendre les représentations circassiennes, la réflexion sur une éventuelle réorientation professionnelle arrive plus tôt dans la carrière que pour des artistes ayant exercé avant la pandémie. En janvier 2021, 94% des artistes de cirque envisage une autre carrière, selon le regroupement national des arts du cirque En Piste. Mettre en évidence les éléments de la profession qui conduisent les artistes de cirque à entreprendre une transition de carrière, voici ce que propose ce travail original. Pour cela, nous avons mené une enquête qualitative auprès de 14 artistes du Cirque du Soleil. Nous avons observé, écouté mais aussi compris les représentations et les perceptions des artistes concernant leur carrière. Par l’intermédiaire des entrevues réalisées entre janvier 2020 et novembre 2020, nous avons recueilli des données précieuses et riches d’informations pour identifier les principaux éléments déclencheurs de cette transition. La combinaison de plusieurs facteurs tels que la chronologie dans le temps, les risques de blessures plus élevés avec l’âge, les conditions de travail très particulières des artistes du cirque, la conciliation travail/famille, l’auto-exclusion des femmes vis-à-vis de leurs pairs, l’épuisement émotionnel ou encore, le contexte exceptionnel de la COVID-19, participent au fait que les artistes quittent la scène relativement tôt au cours de leur carrière d’artiste. Ainsi, ce travail vise à reconnaître le travail des artistes du cirque ayant effectué une transition de carrière ou étant sur le point de la réaliser. / Career transition is a phenomenon inherent in the performing arts and particularly in the circus arts. The often constrained nature of the career transition and the difficulty for those who undertake it, are considered major issues for all circus actors. However, few studies have looked at the dynamics of career transition in the circus arts. At the time when the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing employers to suspend circus performances, the reflection on a possible professional reorientation comes earlier in their career in comparison to artists who worked before the pandemic. In January 2021, 94% of circus artists considered having another career, according to the national grouping of circus arts En Piste. Highlighting the factors of the artistic profession that lead circus artists to undertake a career transition, is what this original research offers. Thus, we conducted a qualitative survey including 14 Cirque du Soleil artists. We have observed, heeded and comprehended the representations and perceptions of artists regarding their career. During the interviews conducted between January and November 2020, we collected valuable and revealing data to identify the main triggers for this transition. We have thus shown that artists leave the scene relatively early in their career. The combination of several factors such as the chronology over time, the risk of injury which increases by age, the very particular working conditions of circus artists, the work / family balance, the self-exclusion of women in comparison to their peers, the emotional exhaustion or even the exceptional context of COVID-19, contribute to the fact that artists leave the scene relatively early in their professional artistic pathway. Thus, this work aims to understand the work of circus artists who have made a career transition or are about to make it.

Syftet i föreliggande studie var att undersöka studentidrottares upplevelser av att ha en dubbel karriär och vilka krav, barriärer och resurser de upplever samt hur de hanterar kraven. Urvalet var åtta studentidrottare fördelat på sju kvinnor och en man, i åldrarna 20-35. Föreliggande studie hade en kvalitativ design med semistrukturerade intervjuer, där intervjuguiden och den efterkommande tematiska analysen av resultatet grundades i Karriärövergångsmodellen (Stambulova, 2003) och ett holistiskt perspektiv utifrån Holistiska idrottsliga karrirärutvecklingsmodellen (Wylleman, 2019). Analysen resulterade i fyra huvudteman med tillhörande underteman och subteman. Det var studentidrottarnas upplevda krav, barriärer, resurser samt studentidrottarnas effektiva hantering. Resultatet redogör för att studentidrottarna upplever både interna och externa krav där ett konstant fokus ligger på höga prestationer vilket uppfattas som påfrestande. Interna barriärer samt de externa barriärerna, vilken delats upp i begränsad tid och Covid-19 pandemins negativa konsekvenser, samspelar i förhållande till de upplevda resurserna. De interna tillgångarna utgörs av målmedvetenhet, erfarenhet av kombinationen studier och idrott samt två identiteter istället för en. De externa tillgångarna utgörs av ekonomiskt stöd, ökad flexibilitet med distansstudier och att dra nytta av andra studenter. Den upplevda hanteringen innehåller i sin tur tre olika strategier som på olika sätt används av studentidrottarna för att mäkta med deras dubbla karriärer. Den problemfokuserade hanteringen innebar noggrann planering för att få ihop livspusslet där den emotionsfokuserade hanteringen handlade om psykisk och fysisk återhämtning, men även undvikande hantering var en del av upplevelsen. / The purpose of the study was to investigate student-athletes' experiences of having a dual career and what demands, barriers and resources they experience and how they manage the demands. The selection was eight student athletes divided into seven women and one man, aged 20-35. The present study had a qualitative design with semi-structured interviews, where the interview guide and the subsequent thematic analysis of the results were based on the Career Transition Model (Stambulova, 2003) and a holistic perspective based on the Holistic athletic career model (Wylleman, 2019). The analysis resulted in four main themes with associated sub-themes and sub-themes. It was the student-athletes' perceived demands, barriers, resources and the student-athletes' effective coping. The results show that the student-athletes experience both internal and external demands where there is a constant focus on high performance, which is perceived as stressful. Internal barriers as well as the external barriers, which are divided into limited time and negative consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, interact in relation to the perceived resources. The internal assets consist of purposefulness, experience of the combination of studies and sports, and two identities instead of one. The external assets consists of financial support, increased flexibility with distance studies and benefiting from other students. The perceived coping, in turn, contains three different strategies that are used in different ways by the student-athletes to cope with their dual careers. The problem-focused coping involved careful planning to piece together the life puzzle, where the emotion-focused coping dealt with mental and physical recovery, where also avoidant coping was part of the experience.

Syftet med denna studie är att bidra till en djupare förståelse för hur människor känslomässigtpåverkas av och hanterar påtvingade omställningar under karriären. Detta är ur ett studie- ochyrkesvägledningsperspektiv en viktig fråga eftersom dagens föränderliga arbetsmarknad och fokus pålivslångt lärande innebär att vägledare sannolikt kommer att arbeta alltmer med en målgrupp i olikaformer av karriäromställning. Sju personer med stora erfarenheter av omställningar har intervjuats, ochi analysen studeras resultaten utifrån flera perspektiv med hjälp av dels teorier om grundläggandekänslor och teorier om kris, sorg och utveckling, dels karriärvägledningsteorin Planned Happenstance.I resultatet finns ett flertal empiriska exempel på vilka reaktioner och förhållningssätt som påtvingadomställning kan leda till, och med en djupare förståelse för dessa kan vägledare få en viktigpedagogisk roll i mötet med klienter i omställning. / The aim of the study is to contribute to a deeper understanding of how people are emotionally affectedby, and manage, work transitions that have been forced upon them in their professional life. From theperspective of guidance counsellors, this is an important question, given that the current labour marketis in flux, and given the fact that the focus on ‘life-long learning’ means that counsellors will in alllikelihood find themselves working increasingly with people at various points in career transition.Seven individuals with considerable experience of such work transitions have been interviewed. In theanalysis, the results have been studied from different perspectives based on theories of basic emotions,theories of crisis, sorrow and development and the Planned Happenstance career theory. The resultscontain several examples of reactions and approaches that involuntary work transitions can lead to.With a deeper understanding of these, counsellors can acquire an important pedagogical role in theirinteractions with clients dealing with career transition.