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Career orientations and intra‐occupational choice: A survey of engineering students
Author(s) -
TAYLOR ROBERT
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of occupational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0305-8107
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8325.1979.tb00439.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , psychology , selection (genetic algorithm) , social psychology , medical education , mathematics education , applied psychology , computer science , medicine , geography , artificial intelligence , archaeology
This paper reports a questionnaire survey of final‐year engineering students at Imperial College, London. Results indicate considerable self‐selection between students' career orientations and their job choices. Most students took jobs in engineering and most of these were within the branch of their training. Those students entering R & D or design had different career orientations from those entering ‘operations' or from those leaving engineering. The findings also illustrated that three general characteristics associated with inter‐occupational choice theory could be observed in a particular intra‐occupational context.