Careers Officers Research Articles

Assessment on Maritime Students' Awareness, Perceptions and Needs in Career Planning in Tertiary Education

Although seafaring is seen as an attractive profession for prospective students in terms of having the opportunity to see different parts of the world while working and earning more money in less time compared to other professions, the harsh conditions of duties onboard sometimes overshadow this attractiveness, which may lead students to question their choices and seek different career alternatives. This study aims at assessing maritime students' knowledge, perceptions, and needs regarding career awareness and career planning at the tertiary level. The study also seeks to understand students' awareness of career-related activities and the role and responsibilities of the career centre. The research component of the study involves administering a questionnaire to 381 first-year students at a maritime-focused university. The questionnaire comprises twenty questions based on a five-point Likert scale and has been electronically distributed. The data collected has been analysed using parametric methods based on four variables: career anchor, career awareness, career centre awareness, and career planning awareness. The study has revealed that most of the students are aware of their own characteristics and the sacrifices required by their future profession, but they had not yet decided which career path to follow after graduation. The study has also revealed that students are interested in developing their skills through extracurricular activities and consider entrepreneurship as a future career option. The results suggest that career offices in maritime universities should create more opportunities to provide students with adequate information about their future careers and to enable them to make correct and realistic decisions about their career paths. The next study on this topic can focus on how to raise awareness of the functions of career officers and how to develop maritime-oriented career planning courses so that the students can make more realistic and satisfying career choices.

Suspending Voluntary Reserve Service: New Questions in Israeli Military Ethics

Military activities with the framework of the IDF [Israel Defense Force] is carried out by citizens in a variety of positions. In addition to the ordinary positions of career officers and NCOs, the IDF consists of conscripted men and women as well as reservists. Some of the latter serve under an ordinary command to serve for a certain relatively short period. Other reservists, including pilots and special forces officers have served since they volunteered to serve. Facing the political clash between the government, who have been viewed as trying to change the democratic nature of the state, and the popular opposition, who have tried to protect the judiciary and other elements of democracy, many officers who belong to the latter reservist group have suspended their voluntary service or even retired. Their decision has raised the obvious issue of whether such decisions can be justified, morally, ethically, and democratically. This is the topic of the present paper.

Making action learning our own: a story from the Basque Country

ABSTRACT This account of practice describes how elected representatives, politically appointed managers and career officers of the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council have adopted action learning as a way of learning how to transform their institution, an important aspect of which has been to find locally situated ways of establishing and consolidating the approach. The article provides pen portraits to illustrate what has been learned and achieved so far and in conclusion draws attention to the importance of shifting the balance of learning and challenge from a focus on individuals towards a collective effort which tackles deep rooted organisational problems.

‘Defeat, Victory, Repeat’: Russian Émigrés between the Spanish Civil War and Operation Barbarossa, 1936–1944

Tens of thousands of White Russians were forced to leave their country after 1920. Many of them were career officers and soldiers imbued with anti-communism, who were then hired by diverse armies. They acted as transnational soldiers of the counter-revolution during the interwar period. This article analyses the trajectory of some dozens of them, who volunteered for the Francoist army in 1936–8 during the Spanish Civil War. Afterwards, many of them joined the ranks of the Spanish ‘Blue Division’ as interpreters to take part in the invasion of their home country by the Germans. Their experience as occupiers was highly ambiguous and oscillated between disappointment and nostalgia once they perceived that the objective of the invasion was not to liberate Russia from communism, but to enslave the country and its inhabitants. However, once they returned to Spain, they cultivated a hero myth of their past experience and regarded themselves as winners.

The utility of the psycholexical approach for identifying military core values: Illustrated in a sample of Swiss career officers and NCOs

ABSTRACT Values have always been a top priority in the military domains of leadership, training, ethical commitment, and psychological research. However, only a few studies have assessed value descriptors and their underlying dimensional structure in military organizations using an empirical psycholexical and factor analytical approach. This research project examined the structure of military values and derived core military values. Two studies were conducted in cooperation with the Swiss Armed Forces. In study 1, 25 military-specific value descriptors were identified based on a psycholexical analysis of military guidelines and in line with expert ratings by executive military leaders. In study 2, a questionnaire was filled out by a sample of 550 military professionals to capture their ratings of values as applied to everyday military decisions and actions. Principal component analysis in combination with Goldberg’s top-down approach delivered five military value categories that reflect the military culture in Switzerland, characterized as (I) freedom, (II) social cohesion, (III) good soldiership, (IV) mutual respect, and (V) military conformity. Results are discussed in light of introducing a novel research approach to assessing the value structure and culture in military organizations.

Unequal opportunities in accessing employability‐related programmes: South Asian graduates' experiences in Australia

AbstractLimited scholarly work has been conducted on obtaining equal opportunities to participate in employability‐related programmes by international students while studying in Australia. Drawing on a qualitative study, 20 South Asian postgraduates were interviewed to explore their experiences in accessing employability‐related programmes. Based on the findings, South Asian graduates have experienced unequal opportunities in accessing employability‐related programmes as postgraduate international students in Australia. They are disadvantaged by generic career advice and resume assistance offered by their university career office, and companies invited to university career fairs offer internships, placements or graduate programme opportunities mostly to domestic students. As a result, South Asian graduates were unable to gain employment in their field of studies. South Asian graduates have also offered several useful recommendations to facilitate more equal chances of developing employability and thereby gaining successful employment in Australia. These include partnerships with companies in providing employment opportunities, diversification of university career office roles, and establishing connections with alumni. The paper also discusses implications for Australian higher education institutions and higher education policy and practice in Australia.

ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКАЯ ПРОБЛЕМА ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ ЦЕННОСТНО-НРАВСТВЕННОЙ СФЕРЫ БУДУЩИХ ЛЕТЧИКОВ В ВОЕННОМ ВУЗЕ

The article deals with the problem of future pilots’ value and moral sphere formation in the educational process of a higher military school, which reflects in the contradictions of conceptual, organizational and methodical levels. This phenomenon is considered as a multi-component system of integrative dialectically interdependent qualities that ensure the internalization of the value-moral postulates of the state into internal attitudes and personal beliefs, self-building of the individual based on the traditions of Russian officers and historical knowledge about the exploits of Russian pilots in the Great Patriotic War and today’s local wars, the presence of internal value-moral “scales” that determine the choice of hero’s act, their readiness for self-sacrifice, awareness of themselves as “I am an officer of Russia”. The article examines the value education and the correspondence of the views of researchers regarding the instillation of values in the aspect of a military educational institution. Attention is focused on the partial possibility of adapting some concepts of value education and this approach is argued in the formation of future career officers. The aspects of moral education are determined and the components of the officer’s moral qualities, which are of a separate nature, are given. The attention is focused on pedagogical problems that are associated with the formation of the personality of the future officer and the adaptation of moral aspects on specific historical examples. The argumentation of the importance of the personality of the teacher, who must have all the characteristics and qualities of an officer, is given. The article considers the discrepancy between the professional training of career officers and the achievement of the desired value and moral qualities in the process of educational work in the aspect of the distribution of profile training over time. The necessity and expediency of restoring the principle of continuity when entering military universities after military educational organizations is argued based on value and moral considerations. As an alternative, the formation of an educational system is proposed, which at the initial stage could create conditions for bringing the value and moral qualities of cadets to the basic level. The importance of developing and implementing a unified educational system, which contains general and applied components, is determined. On the example of Krasnodar Higher Military School of pilots named after Hero of the Soviet Union A.K. Serov the expediency of using the accumulated experience for the implementation of such a unified educational system and the formation of future career officers who differ not only in basic values and moral qualities, but also moral qualities in accordance with the branch of the armed forces.

Apollon Kruse (1891—1967): a sketch of the early period of his life

This article examines the early period of the life and career of the Russian and Soviet military man Apollon Kruse, who became a general first in the White and then in the Red Army and escaped every kind of repression. During the Revolution of 1917, Kruse, like many other career officers of the Russian Imperial Army, faced the problem of further professional development. Contrary to popular belief, for a significant number of the officers, military service in one or another post-imperial army was primarily associated with the maintaining of the elite status and gaining new career opportunities. Traditionally, apolitical behaviour of the officers and their commitment to specific corporatism principally allowed them to switch from one army to another one without difficulty. The trajectory of their service was determined by their personal characteristics (first of all, their origin and worldview). These circumstances in particular gave rise to a whole range of identities that could change, depending on the situation. Kruse’s example highlights the evolution of a former tsarist officer and suggests a new approach towards the nature of conformity in his elite group. The article is based on previously unknown archival documents.

Paths in education: how students make qualification choices at Level 3 and what influences these choices

ABSTRACT This study explores how young people in England make choices about the qualifications they study at the age of 16, when they move to post-compulsory education, and the impact on further progression. Given the potential impact on students’ lives, it seems vital to understand how they make their choices, and whether the current decision-making process could be improved. There is increasing research into the provision of career guidance, on how students are making choices about higher education (Diamond et al., 2014). However, the majority of research into qualification choice has been about progression to Higher Education or choices made about GCSEs, leaving a gap in the literature relating to vocational education and training. It has been argued that some students are poorly prepared when it comes to choices about the qualifications after 16 (Leatherwood, 2015). This is still true for young people today. Using a mixed methods approach involving questionnaires (n = 50); 35 student interviews; 2 focus group discussions, and 4 staff interviews, the study found five main influences on choice. They included peer influence, career aspirations, parental or family influence, advice from careers officers and media influences. The role played by schools in shaping qualification choice is considerable: young people need both good impartial information as well as good advice and guidance in how to use this information. However, these structural factors can play a significant role in the choice of qualifications, to the point where it is effectively a ‘non-choice’.

청소년육성 전담공무원의 전문성 확보방안에 대한 의견조사연구 : 경기지역 청소년 관련 공무원 심층인터뷰 중심으로

The purpose of this study is to explore opinions on securing the professionalism of public officials in charge of youth development through in-depth interviews with youth-related public officials in Gyeonggi-do. The research method is qualitative research, and the main data collection method is in-depth interview. In-depth interviews were conducted for 8 participants. As for the criteria for in-depth interview, five job performance skills(tools) were extracted and implemented through a theoretical background for a plan to secure professionalism. The main analysis results of the plan to secure professionalism are as follows. First, public officials in charge of youth development shall be increased and assigned to the department in charge of youth development. Second, a systematic policy delivery system, such as using the name 「youth」 should be established centering on the department in charge of youth development. Third, the scope of job of public officials in charge of youth development should be legislated. Fourth, the public official in charge of youth development should carefully consider the appointment plan from a term-based public official to a local professional career officer. Fifth, long-term education should be continuously received to improve the professionalism of public officials in charge of youth development. Finally, a professional organization should be established to defend the rights and interests of public officials in charge of youth development. Based on these results, it is intended to be used as basic research data.

Patterns for Personal Business Model Canvas Applications – BE(A)ST, an Approach for Aware Career Development

The model in which after formal education a person obtains a stable occupation has been replaced by the career model of building many, often different individual development paths throughout the course of one’s life. It poses a huge challenge for higher education institutions. Universities must move from the current mode of ‘mass production’ of students to the approach that treats students individually according to their interests, values, passion and character traits. Furthermore, universities should focus not only on developing hard skills, but also universal competences that can positively affect their ability to adapt to the changing demands of the labour market. The education process usually involves many stakeholders: students themselves, academics, career office staff, parents, employers, or friends. Each of these groups has different levels of understanding of what a career is, what career planning is about, and what professional success means. Ideally, the university provides support for the personalization of educational pathways and career planning at various points of contact - classes, career offices, career related events. Students should also be motivated to actively develop their career identity and its connection to what makes them tick. Universities should offer career planning tools for various stakeholder groups tailored to their needs. Our approach called BE Aware STudent (BE(A)ST) is a comprehensive framework that enables universities to prepare students to be more agile in educational track individualization and increase students’ adaptability in the process of conscious career development. The key technique adopted for the BEAST approach is the Personal Business Model Canvas (PBMC). This paper presents the patterns of PBMC applications in the form of possible scenarios that may be used by students, educational staff members, and career office workers. Students can use the PBMC for educational track individualization and early career planning. Educational Staff Members can use the technique to present the market potential of the subject they teach and to prepare a reference model for possible job positions related to the subject matter of the classes. Career office workers may use PBMC for counselling students and collecting information on occupation requirements from employers.

Understanding Start-up Employees’ Communicative Behaviors on an Employer Review Website: A Comparison of TikTok and Snapchat

ABSTRACT To provide insights into start-ups’ reputation management, this study aims to explore how employees of a start-up, being, in a broad sense, an entrepreneurial firm, evaluate their employer on an employer review platform. Specifically, it compares the reputational opportunities and challenges of TikTok as a start-up and Snapchat as a more established company in the same industry. It explores the cognitive and evaluative representations employees associate with their employers in reviews. To do this, a total of 644 English-language employee reviews were collected from Glassdoor, an employer review platform on which former and current employees anonymously post reviews about their organizations. Content analysis was then conducted, unveiling 14 thematic topics. The top three most frequently mentioned topics were work environment, co-workers, and salaries and benefits. A comparison of the two companies showed that TikTok received a proportionately higher number of positive reviews about career progression opportunities, work environment, and office and location. However, it also received proportionately more negative reviews on work arrangements, salaries and benefits, and intrinsic rewards. Theoretical and empirical implications are discussed.

Professional identity reconstruction: Attempts to match people with new role expectations and environmental demands

Organizations increasingly find themselves in circumstances that generate a need for creating novel identities to deal with novel situations. Through a qualitative study of a professional education programme for military career officers, I explore the reconstruction of professional identities in light of what is perceived as a complex, demanding and changing environment. I found that the programme promoted images and worldviews of an ideal and desired professional identity, which did not match the role transitions and expectations to be enacted by the participants. In addition, the findings show how cultural and organizational dynamics constrained processes of identity reconstruction in the learning context. Implications of the study (e.g. how to theorize and learn from attempts to match people with new role expectations and environmental demands) are discussed. By building bridges across socialization theory, identity work and research on identities in context, and hereby integrating micro- and macro perspectives on professional identity reconstruction, existing theory is elaborated. The article concludes by pointing to the analytical value of exploring how professionals in later stages of their careers struggle to adopt timely and relevant identities and how we better understand the challenges stemming from this identity reconstruction work.

Features of the course of chronic tonsillitis in the group of dispensary - dynamic observation of career officers

Features of the course of chronic tonsillitis in the group of dispensary - dynamic observation of career officers

Merging Academic and Career Advising to Offer Holistic Student Support: A University Perspective

Higher education in South Africa has focused extensively on widening access to further inclusivity and to economic development. However, as students need to persist and succeed in their studies, access alone is not enough. Furthermore, the responsibility of higher education to help students succeed does not end with graduation; institutions need to produce graduates who are ready to enter the labour market. Therefore, it is important to integrate career information and concepts into these practices when conceptualising holistic academic advising. Since academic advising is still developing as a professional practice in the South African context, no clear, practical framework has been used uniformly at universities. Career advice is also not necessarily integrated into academic advising in a conscious manner. This may result in students who are struggling to integrate all the academic and career information provided to make informed decisions regarding their studies and career paths. This paper argues that the 3-I Process is an appropriate framework for the integration of career and academic advising in the South African context. In this case study, we draw from the experiences of nine advisors from the central advising office, faculties, and the career office at the University of the Free State to understand the extent to which they have been incorporating the elements of the 3-I Process into their existing academic advising practices and how they view the possibilities of following a more integrated approach. We also map how the framework can be adapted to the broader South African context to inform and develop more holistic and professionalised advising practices, as well as to contribute towards students’ success beyond university.

Opening the Black Box: The Turkish Military Before and After 15 July 2016

Opening the Black Box: The Turkish Military Before and After 15 July 2016

Dr David Antony Douglas Slattery (1930-2020)

David died at home in Wapping Quay, Liverpool, in the early hours of Boxing Day 2020. He was almost 91 and suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COVID-19 brought his life to an end, surprisingly peacefully. His father was Rear Admiral Sir Matthew Sausse Slattery RN, KBE, CB, FRAeS. Educated at Stonyhurst, then Osborne and Dartmouth. He was a Royal Navy career Officer. A naval aviation pilot. Heavily involved in the re-building of the Fleet Air Arm 1937 onwards. Responsible for Naval Aviation procurement and production during World War II. Retired from RN in 1946. Chairman/MD of various Coys including, Shorts Bros, Bristol Aviation and BOAC. His mother was Micaela (Mica) Swaine. One of four daughters born to Col. Swaine, latterly Chief Inspector of Police in Trinidad and Tobago. His wife died young, so the four girls were brought up through their teens with no mother. Matthew and Mica’s...

The Praetorian Guard, Rome’s Intelligence Service

AbstractRome was a kingdom, then a republic, and culminated in a militaristic empire. For this, the city of Mars invented, perfected and organized efficient institutions to carry out its plans, which extended it from the Italic Peninsula throughout the world on which Rome had a say. One of the most efficient institutions, the essence of the Roman executive power, was not thePrinceps, but thePraetorian Guard, a military and police institution, at the same time political, economic, but especially with the powers of a secret service, being one of the forerunners of European secret services, surpassing all that had existed until its functioning, not being matched to this day in terms of efficiency and impact in the life of a civilization. When founding the Principate, the Praetorian Guard was the one which transformed the imperial dream of Rome into a historical reality. The “wings of the Roman eagle” that spread over the world conquered by the Romans were Praetorian, if we consider that this institution was coordinated byordo equester, the tagma of Rome’s career officers, its headquarters, but also the government of Rome, the praetorian prefect also fulfilling the function which today we would call prime minister, the second man in the hierarchy of the Roman state, of course after theprinceps(the first of the citizens).Although as a military structure, the Praetorian Guard appeared with the professional Roman army, it reached its peak with the Principate, initially having a guard function for the Roman military commander, it became in time the most effective secret service of classical Antiquity. This success was due to the fact that the Romans were inspired by the Spartans (especially the Ephorian magistrates), but also by the Persians (from the administrative organization of the satrapies, the 10,000 immortals, and especially the royal postal service of Persia), the Roman creation being the most complete, therefore the etymology of the word “information” is Latin.From a military perspective, the Praetorian Guard was organized at all levels of a global society, such as Rome, covering informatively, politically, militarily, economically, but also diplomatically all Roman interests in the world controlled by Rome, being a true intelligence service. It was the first informative outpost in non-Roman territories, which had to be transformed into Roman territories, as was the case of Dacia.

Decision Towards Green Careers and Sustainable Development

The graduates’ careers are the most spectacular and visible outcome of excellent university education. This is also important for the university performance assessment, when its graduates can easily find job on the labour market. The information about graduates’ matching their qualifications and fields of studies versus undertaken employment, create an important set of data for future students and employers to be analysed. Additionally, there is business environment pressure to transform work places and whole organizations towards more green and sustainable form. Green Jobs (GJ) are the element of the whole economy transformation. This change is based on the green qualifications and green careers which translate theoretical assumptions into business language. Therefore, the choice of future career path is based specified criteria, which were examined by surveys performed among graduates by the career office at Wroclaw University of Technology (WUT) in Poland. The aim of this article was to address the question about most significant criteria of green career paths among graduates of WUT in 2019. The special attention was paid for the GJ understood as green careers. In this article the multi-criteria Bellinger’s method was explained, presented and then used to analyse chosen factors of choice graduates’ career paths and then compared with Gale-Shapley algorithm results in a comparative analysis. The future research can develop a graduate profile willing to be employed in GJ.

Chokan Valikhanov is a Researcher of Central Asia

The article is devoted to the study of the life path and scientific creativity of Ch. Ch. Valikhanov who is an outstanding representative of the Kazakh elite, a career officer and a talented researcher in Central Asia. The author of the article also pays attention to studying the contacts of the scientist with prominent figures of the Russian democratic and scientific intelligentuals. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the scientific works of Ch. Ch. Valikhanov on the history, geography, flora and fauna of the territory of Central Asia. The author of the article has made a comparative translation and analysis of the works performed by Ch. Ch. Valikhanov from medieval manuscripts, in particular the «letters of Toktamysh» and other works of the people of Asia. It was revealed that Ch. Valikhanov, as a scientist, collected and summarized a huge amount of material on the history of the Central Asian region. He collected information on routes along Central Asian regions. The fact is confirmed that Ch. Ch. Valikhanov was the first to introduce new data into scientific circulation hitherto unknown to scientists in Europe and Russia. His works were applied in the development of this rich and politically important region. In the course of the study, the current state of historiography is revealed according to the main works of the researcher and the sources of his biography. The source base of the study includes the collected works of Ch. Ch. Valikhanov and documents of the archives of Kazakhstan, Tatarstan and Orenburg. As a result of the study, we denote the following: a comparative analysis of the work of Ch. Ch. Valikhanov was held, the most valuable works on the scientific heritage of the scientist are revealed, and his contribution to world science is indicated.