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To date, academics, practitioners and students in South Africa
interested in career psychology have had to rely largely on
textbooks from the US and Europe. However, politics, economics and
prevailing social conditions have had a major influence on the
nature, form and direction of this field in South Africa, and while
many of these are excellent references, they understandably focus
on issues relevant to their own environment. Career psychology in
the South African context examines historical and state-of-the-art
career practices in career psychology, particularly in relation to
conditions in this country. Career psychology in the South African
context provides descriptive and critical analyses of career
theories and current thought on career development, referring to
many published articles both in South Africa and abroad. It gives a
South African perspective on the process of career choice, and
considers which aspects of overseas practice can be applied locally
and which aspects require further research. Additional chapters in
this edition include life design, unemployment and the influence of
poverty on career choice. Career psychology in the South African
context is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students as well
as career practitioners, psychologists, educationists and
teacher-counsellors.
Faith Popcorn has been called "America's most highly regarded trends forecaster" (Newsday). She first identified the concepts of Cocooning, Female Think and Icon Toppling; predicted the fall of New Coke; and has helped create and market many of America's most successful new products. Her astonishingly accurate predictions are an invaluable asset to the American business world, and Clicking, which sold over 100,000 copies in hardcover, appeared on bestseller lists ranging from the New York Times and USA Today to the Chicago Tribune and Business Week. Now Popcorn, coauthor Lys Marigold, and Popcorn's company, BrainReserve, share even more of their remarkable insights about how we will conduct our businesses and live our lives in the future. Clicking is about positioning one's business, and one's self, to be poised to take the fullest advantage of upcoming trends. Loaded with telling anecdotes and inspiring examples, packed with ideas, products and people who have successfully mastered trends, or "clicked," this up-to-the minute revised report (including a major trend not identified in the hardcover) reveals the shape of the future.
Universities are expected to produce employable graduates. In
Education for Employability, experts explore critical questions in
the employability agenda: Who sets the standards and expectations
of employability? How do students monitor their own employability?
How can universities design whole curricula and university
environments that promote employability? What teaching and learning
strategies facilitate the development of employability?
Responsibility for developing and sustaining employability lies
with a broad coalition of the individual students, the university,
alumni, the professions and industry and is accomplished through
the intended curriculum as well as co-curricular, extra-curricular
and supra-curricular activities, events and learning opportunities.
The second in the Women Securing the Future with TIPPSS series,
this book provides insight and expert advice from seventeen women
leaders in technology, healthcare and policy to address the
challenges of Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and
Security (TIPPSS) for connected healthcare, and the growing
Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) ecosystem. The ten chapters in
this book delve into trust, security and privacy risks in connected
healthcare for patients, medical devices, personal and clinical
data, healthcare providers and institutions, and provide practical
approaches to manage and protect the data, devices, and humans.
Cybersecurity, technology and legal experts discuss risks, from
data and device hacks to ransomware, and propose approaches to
address the challenges including new frameworks for architecting
and evaluating medical device and connected hospital cybersecurity.
We all need to be aware of the TIPPSS challenges in connected
healthcare, and we call upon engineers, device manufacturers,
system developers and healthcare providers to ensure trust and
manage the risk. Featuring contributions from prominent female
experts and role models in technology, cybersecurity, engineering,
computer science, data science, business, healthcare,
accessibility, research, law, privacy and policy, this book sets
the stage to improve security and safety in our increasingly
connected world.
Over the years, careers have transformed to be flexible and
changing rather than stable, life-long commitments to an
organization. As such, making work meaningful, controlling the work
environment, and taking the opportunity to get required training
for the next job are as important as the financial advantages.
Educators' careers cannot be isolated from the rest of the labor
market, and these developments are expected to influence the career
decisions of educators. Vocational Identity and Career Construction
in Education uses career construction theory to investigate
objective factors influencing career choices and paths of
educators, including factors influencing vocational personality
development, career counseling activities, transition from school
to work, adaptation to different work environments, and meaning of
work for educators. Featuring research on topics such as diagnosing
career barriers, person-environment fit, and workforce
adaptability, this book is designed for educational administrators,
human resources theorists, students studying career-related
subjects, and practitioners working in managerial positions in
private and public educational organizations.
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