Sunday, December 13, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Career Development
In organizational development, the study of career development looks at
1) how individuals manage their careers within and between organizations
2) and how organizations structure the career progress of their members, it can also be tied into succession planning within some organizations.
In personal development, career development is:
The total constellation of psychological, sociological, educational, physical, economic, and chance factors that combine to influence the nature and significance of work in the total lifespan of any given individual.
The lifelong psychological and behavioral processes as well as contextual influences shaping one's career over the life span. As such, career development involves the person's creation of a career pattern, decision-making style, integration of life roles, values expression, and life-role self concepts.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Job
Trends
Other job search engines index pages only from employers' websites, choosing to bypass traditional job boards entirely. These vertical search engines allow job-seekers to find new positions that may not be advertised on the traditional job boards. There is a close relationship between these search engines and the emergence of XML based standards in the recruitment industry. Employer review websites are also used for job searches. They enable job seekers to find and read reviews about experiences of working for a company or an organization. Although employer review websites may produce links to potential employers, they do not themselves list vacancies.
Venture capital and mergers and acquisitions have been active in the job board industry for more than a decade. Several private equity firms are currently in the process of piecing together large job board networks and other firms are simply expanding through acquisition. The success of jobs search engines in bridging the gap between job seekers and employers have spawned thousands of other job sites, many of which list job opportunities in a specific sector, such as education, health care, hospital management, academics and even in the non-governmental sector. There are reportedly more than 40,000 employment websites in existence today, the largest of which are represented by The International Association of Employment Web Sites, a trade association for the global online employment services industry. Smaller job boards tend to focus on a particular industry or geographic region