The Idea in Brief Are you one of the growing number of people struggling to make mid-career changes? Searching for ten easy steps to professional reinvention? Or awaiting flashes of insight--while opportunities pass you by? Would...
In our daily life, we generally expect the transport system to be efficient, safe, and reliable. However, there exist several sources of uncertainties in the transportation system both on demand and supply sides. With a constant growth in economic activities most urban transport networks currently operate at...
This project investigated the interrelationships between family expectations and young people's post-school plans. All of the participants were from financially disadvantaged families. The research used interviews to understand these young people's perspectives of their transition experiences: the ways in which young people's school experiences impacted on their...
What type of emotional transition is experienced by professional dancers who face the end of their career? What does this journey imply? This article discusses the transition experiences of two case studies out of a total sample of fourteen (N=14) international professional ballet dancers who left their...
Mark Watson is a professor and head of the Psychology Department of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. his research focuses on career development and career assessment of primary, secondary and tertiary students from all South African population groups. Mark has published extensively in international...
This study undertook a small preliminary investigation of the contemporary employment practice of 'applying for your own job'. There has not yet been a specific study into the effect upon individuals and organisations of the practice of existing employees being required to apply for the same or...
AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREER COUNSELLORS NATIONAL CAREER CONFERENCE, HOBART, 26-28 March 2008 A distinguished assembly of workplace experts and academics will meet to confront the latest issues facing employees and employers around the world. The central theme of the 2008 AACC conference is Career Landscape:...
John Orr Crites, one of the leading vocational psychologists of the 20th century, succumbed to pneumonia on March 15, 2007. With his passing, counsel ling psychology lost an exemplar of its scientist-practitioner model. Jack's scholarly contributions and leadership substantially advanced vocational psychology both as a distinct discipline...
I WANT WHAT SHE'S HAVING: THE EXPERIENCE OF CREATING A PLEASURABLE BUSINESS. Naomi Simson, Messenger Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9803284-0-0 Have you ever wanted to discover what it is really like inside a fast growing business?' is the question posed on the back cover...
The first of two related themes in dozens of your e-mails goes like, "Wow, do I envy you the training you've had!" Dudes, if you only knew how much I envy the training many of you have received. See, like many others, I feel like I got shanghaied...
If you're a young cop on the short end of the salary scale, with young kids at an expensive time of life, you don't need an armory of guns with different barrel lengths. You can get by with a couple. Let's say you're authorized to carry a rail-framed service pistol...
Experimental loading was fascinating. Pressures seemed low with the medium burning rate powders and velocities were as expected. Accuracy was excellent, and the 220-grain Hornady deer bullet was working well. Quite a few pigs were sacrificed to the ballistic gods in testing. Several thousand rounds went down the tubes, and...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Handgunner own J.D. Jones Handgun Hunting columnist and icon of the industry, won the American Pistolsmiths Guild "Pistolsmith of the Year" award for 2008. I've known J.D. for years, and had the pleasure of working with him here at Handgunner for the past eight years...
Toney Freeman 2007 IRONMAN PRO WINNER "Bodybuilding is about consistency and dedication. When I first started lifting, I had minimal goals--I just wanted to weigh 200 pounds. When I was young, I tried to juggle training, working and everyday life. If I had realized then I...
SOUTH JORDAN -- While many columnists and experts are discounting Michael Phelps' amazing accomplishments in the pool during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, don't expect any Real Salt Lake players to be among the detractors. Deciding to mix up their training regimen, Real spent Wednesday morning in a...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas artist, Bob Bacon, will be the Lone Star State's only exhibitor at this year's Burning Man art event to be held in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno, Nevada August 25-September 1. Approximately 300 artists from around the world will exhibit their artwork at the...
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