Schools of Library and Information Science (LIS) have often promoted alternative careers as a marketing tool and some students enrol in LIS schools specifically to explore alternative careers. The literature on LIS career patterns continues to suggest that those non-traditional careers are desirable and viable alternatives. Yet the survey research based literature indicates that very few LIS gr...

Using the 1970 Census data, this paper examines differences by sex in patterns of intragenerational occupational mobility over a five year period (1965-1970) for two cohorts of white, U.S. men and women. The observed mobility patterns are separated into that part due to structural factors (i.e., the different distributions over occupational origins and destinations by sex) and that due to sex-r...

This study examines immigrants’ employment careers and their (dis)similarity with the standard career sequence of native Germans. Applying the sequence analysis techniques, the study shows that career patterns of ethnic Germans and EU immigrants are closer to the employment patterns of the nativeborn than it is the case for other immigrant groups. Career paths of guest workers from Turkey remai...

Recently, mothers who are health care professionals have been asking employers for more flexibility in their full-time posi­ tions. These women want part-time jobs and jobs with flexible hours, and they want their employers to under­ stand that they must take time off when their children are sick or when emergencies arise. But these women should heed what has happened to their counterparts in a...

This paper presents a data mining methodology to analyze the careers of students, where a career can be seen as a sequence of exams. The model is built using sequential pattern analysis and uses the algorithm SPAM. We consider an ideal career corresponding to a student which has taken each examination just after the end of the corresponding course, without delays. The frequent patterns identifi...