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Overconfidence and Career Choice [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2016 People self-assess their relative ability when making career choices. Thus, confidence in their own abilities is likely an important factor for selection into various career paths. In a sample of 711 first-year students we examine whether there are systematic differences in confidence levels across fields of study.
Jonathan F. Schulz, Christian Thöni
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Confidence and Career Choices: An Experiment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 AbstractConfidence is often seen as an important determinant of success. However, empirical evidence regarding the causal effect of confidence on choices is sparse. Using a stylized laboratory experiment, we examine the effect of an increase in confidence on two important labor market choices: (i) the amount of ability‐contingent earnings risk to take ...
Barron, Kai, Gravert, Christina
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Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, 2010 Reforms to both undergraduate and postgraduate training have resulted in limited exposure to clinical dermatology, and therefore we need to target advice and clinical attachments to the most appropriate stages of training to ensure that dermatology is considered as a career option by medical students.
Clayton, R, Lambert, T, Burge, S
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Gender, Competitiveness, and Career Choices * [PDF]
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014 AbstractGender differences in competitiveness have been hypothesized as a potential explanation for gender differences in education and labor market outcomes. We examine the predictive power of a standard laboratory experimental measure of competitiveness for the later important choice of academic track of secondary school students in the Netherlands ...
Buser, T., Niederle, M., Oosterbeek, H.
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Career choices in academia [PDF]
, 2013 Based on a unique survey, we conduct a stated choice experiment to examine the determinants of career choice in academia. Both early and later stage researchers value a balance between teaching and research, appropriate salaries, working with high-quality peers and good availability of external grants.
Janger, Jürgen, Nowotny, Klaus
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Early medical career choices and eventual careers
Medical Education, 1997 The revised structure of hospital specialist training being introduced in the United Kingdom means that a doctor wanting a career in a hospital specialty will need to be confident that his or her early career choice, made within 3 years of qualification, is realistic.
Edwards, C +3 more
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Personality and career choices
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, 2012 Personality has been viewed as source of person’s attitude exhibited on the job workplace over the years. In this paper, propositions have been made about different kind of personality traits having relevance with nature of job requirements. The study tried to argue that prominent feature of personality traits can be successful in aligning with the ...
Sajjad Hussain +3 more
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Psychiatry as a career choice [PDF]
Psychiatric Bulletin, 2005 The finding by Rajagopal et al ( Psychiatric Bulletin , December 2004, 28 , 444–446) that psychiatry was the least popular clinical specialty amongst medical students is unsurprising but is clearly an issue that needs addressing.
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South African Computer JournalResearch focusing on students’ Information Technology (IT) career choices shows that their decisions were influenced by factors, such as exposure to programming concepts at school level, culture, parents, teachers and role models. Theories relating to career choice have focused on individual characteristics and their environment.
Andre Calitz +2 more
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Statements on career intentions as predictors of career choices
Academic Medicine, 1985 In the study reported here, the author examined the relevance of students' statements on career intentions to predictions of career choices. Similar career intentions questionnaires were administered to the members of the 1973 University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine graduating class at the end of their first undergraduate year and three years later ...
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