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Early Determinants Of Women In The It Workforce: A Model Of Girls’ Career Choices, Monica Adya, Kate Kaiser

Monica Adya

Purpose – To develop a testable model for girls’ career choices in technology fields based on past research and hypotheses about the future of the information technology (IT) workforce.

Design/Methodology/Approach – Review and assimilation of literature from education, psychology, sociology, computer science, IT, and business in a model that identifies factors that can potentially influence a girl’s choice towards or against IT careers. The factors are categorized into social factors (family, peers, and media), structural factors (computer use, teacher/counselor influence, same sex versus coeducational schools), and individual differences. The impact of culture on these various factors is also explored.

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I Used To Work At Goldman Sachs! How Organizational Status Creates Rents In The Market For Human Capital, Matthew Bidwell, Shinjae Won, Roxana Barbulescu, Ethan Mollick

Roxana Barbulescu

We contribute to the literature on how human capital can contribute to competitive advantage by exploring whether having high status in the labor market allows employers to achieve rents in acquiring general human capital. Working for a high status employer provides workers with a valuable signal of ability which helps them to secure better jobs in the future. We argue that higher status employers can appropriate some of those advantages by attracting better workers without having to pay any more. We test these arguments using two unique datasets based on a career survey and internal investment banking personnel data. We …

Employers Need To Do More To Help Maintain Careers Of Employees With Babies, Leandra Preston-Sidler

UCF Forum

It’s amazing how quickly humans adapt to changing circumstances. A few months ago I wrote about how incredibly challenging my first month of life was with a newborn—what many refer to as “baby boot camp,” a perfect term since that’s exactly what it was like thrust into a completely new state of being where life is organized around one thing.

Effects Of A Support System On A First Generation College Graduate's Career Development, Matthew Kaufman

HCBE Theses and Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to identify and describe the impact of the support system on the career development of first generation college graduates.

Research Questions:

--What comprises the first generation college graduates' support system for each generation (i.e. social network, friends, family and colleagues and mentors)?

--What is the relative importance/influence of each support system component in career development for each generation?

Design/Methodology/Approach: There were a total of 21 in-depth interviews with equal number of participants for all three generations (Baby Boomers, X and Y). The interviews were recorded, transcribed and then coded. Further, there are cross …

Careers And Career Development, Sue Mulhall

Books/Book Chapters

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