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This book is concerned with trainee professionals and their search
for meaning through the determined and creative pursuit of a
cross-cultural career transition. Adopting a qualitative research
framework, the book describes the career experience of professional
trainees from non-Western cultures who have chosen to develop their
careers in the West. It examines the process of the initial
consideration of change, the exploring of options (including
whether to emigrate) and how the many issues and challenges of
adapting to the socio-cultural environment of the host country were
met. In addition it examines how the process provided the trainee
professionals involved with greater self-understanding and how as a
result they were able to further consider their future career
plans. The book then highlights the implications of these
experiences for theory, research and practice.
This book provides an original research study on the life-career
development experiences of new and recent immigrant professionals
to Canada. Literature addressing Canada's immigrant professionals
has primarily focused on the negative aspects of migration and
life-career transition, such as barriers, discrimination and
underemployment. Surprisingly few studies have explored how, in
spite of personal and environmental barriers, some new Canadians
have flourished in their new country. The purpose of this study is
to explore the lived experiences of immigrant professionals who
believe they have successfully transitioned in the life-career
domains. While recognizing difficulties and roadblocks, the book
presents a unique insight in the career development field. Twenty
individuals were interviewed using a grounded theory approach.
Analysis revealed that internal and external factors contributed or
hindered their life-career trajectories. Meaning making, social
support and behavioural coping emerged as primary coping
strategies. Issues with language and accreditation emerged as
significant barriers to life-career development. Practical and
theoretical implications are discussed.
The intention of this book is to present an empirical research
study which examines the role and function of anxiety,
self-efficacy, and resource management strategies on academic
achievement within the university student population. The present
study extended previous research by incorporating and investigating
a number of critical issues such as student beliefs, motivation,
resource management skills, anxiety, intolerance of uncertainty,
self-efficacy, and achievement. Results of the study suggest that
early intervention from counsellors and professors may help
university students overcome debilitating anxiety, increase
self-efficacy, strengthen resource management strategies and
improve overall academic experience.
This book examines a research study that describes the critical
interaction between ethnicity and career development in lives of
Chinese-Canadian young adults. Through an empirical inquiry
following a qualitative research framework, the book provides an
in-depth foundation for the scarcely researched area of career
development of Chinese-Canadians, engendering original new
knowledge contributing to the interdisciplinary studies of
vocational and career psychology and cross-cultural psychology.
Drawn from several major career development theories and other
pertinent literature, the research participants' dynamic and
complex processes involved in career choice and decision-making are
identified and analysed.
The book presents a research study that examined the retraining and
career development experiences of new and professional immigrants
in Canada. The study intended to provide an in-depth perspective
into the influence of immigrants optimism and self-efficacy on
their retraining and career development experiences. Using a
qualitative methodology, in-depth interviews were conducted and a
grounded theory approach was employed to analyze the data. Central
themes within participant narratives emerged and key results were
introduced. Participants experiences included a myriad of barriers
and challenges, yet many viewed this experience as a positive
opportunity for growth and development. The results explored
differences between optimists and pessimists retraining and career
development experiences, as well as the role of self-efficacy
within immigrants career development. Results have implications for
career and vocational psychology literature, practice, and career
counselling, and include suggestions for future researchers.
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