The role of professional identity & self-interest in career choices in the emerging ICT workforce
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The influence of professional identity and self-interest on the educational and career choices of the emerging Information and Communications Technology (ICT) workforce is considered in this thesis. Interviews were conducted with 52 ICT students from four Australian tertiary education institutions and the findings indicated that professional identity and self-interest should be considered together, rather than separately, to understand career decisions in relation to the ICT industry. Professional identity is associated with the accrual of symbolic resources including status and esteem, mastery, sense of belonging and attachment. By contrast, self-interest is associated with the perceived likelihood of the accrual of material (economic and social) resources.
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| ID Code: | 91646 |
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| Item Type: | QUT Thesis (Masters by Research) |
| Supervisor: | Grant-Smith, Deanna & McDonald, Paula |
| Keywords: | professional identity, self-interest, career choice, information and communications technology, graduate employment |
| Divisions: | Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > QUT Business School Current > Schools > School of Management |
| Institution: | Queensland University of Technology |
| Deposited On: | 20 Jan 2016 05:38 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2017 14:41 |
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