IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/prbchp/978-3-031-19656-0_11.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Managing Careers. Meanings and Trends for Business Administration Students

In: Remodelling Businesses for Sustainable Development

Author

Listed:
  • Aurelian Sofică

    (Faculty of Business, Babeș-Bolyai University)

  • Iuliana-Maria Levinschi

    (Faculty of Business, Babeș-Bolyai University)

Abstract

Career is diversifying its meanings continuously. Being able to understand the main trends allows students looking for a job to develop a better professional identity and companies to adjust their practices and culture to the new context. The paper is a descriptive one, looking to see the perception of business administration bachelor students in relation to core theories and ideas regarding career. Survey and focus-group are used as research methods. The research questions are looking into conceptual positioning of the students (they favour the learning and development approach to career and dislike political perspective to career); locus of their career initiative (they assume career initiative and rely less on employers or public institutions); balance of career capitals according to Bourdieu (there is a perceived lack of economic capital first, social capital second, and cultural capital third); vocational preferences (social and entrepreneurial are slightly ahead the other ones, and conventional is the least preferred one); career stages (the majority of the students placed themselves in growth - surprising result that leads to further research) and concern regarding discrimination forms than might affect the students (age and disability being their main concern).

Suggested Citation

  • Aurelian Sofică & Iuliana-Maria Levinschi, 2023. "Managing Careers. Meanings and Trends for Business Administration Students," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Adina Letiția Negrușa & Monica Maria Coroş (ed.), Remodelling Businesses for Sustainable Development, chapter 0, pages 151-166, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-19656-0_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19656-0_11
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-19656-0_11. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.