Careers down the tubes

New careers , more complex careers ?

The article deals with the question whether careers have indeed become more complex during the last years and/or decades by applying methods stemming from chaos research. The movements of 215 business school graduates from two different cohorts (graduation around 1970 and 1990 respectively) along two career-related dimensions (coupling, i.e. careerrelated security, dependency, and number of job...

Alternative careers

Fed up with the endless round of grant and/or job applications? Or perhaps you simply can’t face running another gel or gazing at another tissue section? If life in the lab has lost its appeal, it could be worth checking out what other doors are open to you. For the most comprehensive guide to alternative career options, start with the New Niches section at Science’s Next Wave. Featured careers...

The Dynamics of Interorganizational Careers

How do workers build careers across organizations? We propose that increased worker mobility means that workers may now build their careers using interorganizational career ladders, working in certain kinds of organizations earlier in a career and in other kinds of organizations later in the career. We develop a matching framework that predicts such interorganizational moves based on how system...

Translational careers.

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