A career in professional services: accident, serendipity or something more?. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- A career in professional services: accident, serendipity or something more?. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
- Main Title:
- A career in professional services: accident, serendipity or something more?
- Authors:
- Regan, Julie-Anne
Graham, Carroll - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: As part of a larger study, professional staff from two universities, Australian and British, were asked how they entered into a higher education career and what factors kept them in that career. Many participants reported that they found themselves in professional services almost by accident, or by a fortunate combination of circumstances. However, in addition to the serendipitous recruitment reported in earlier studies, our analysis found a positive value associated with higher education that attracted people to seek out employment opportunities, and to remain in the sector. This suggests that recruitment is not as accidental or serendipitous as might first appear. We argue that while there are many reasons why our participants remained in higher education, the variety offered in day-to-day roles and responsibilities is a key factor in retaining professional staff. Our findings have implications for policy and practice, for both the recruitment and retention of talented professional staff.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of higher education policy and management. Volume 40:Issue 1(2018)
- Journal:
- Journal of higher education policy and management
- Issue:
- Volume 40:Issue 1(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 40, Issue 1 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0040-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 3
- Page End:
- 17
- Publication Date:
- 2018-01-02
- Subjects:
- Professional staff -- recruitment -- staff retention
Universities and colleges -- Administration -- Periodicals
378.1005 - Journal URLs:
- http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/app/home/journal.asp?wasp=4268654f74ae41ebbfb551adcd30a8e7&referrer=parent&backto=searchpublicationsresults, 1, 1;homemain, 1, 1; ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjhe20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/1360080X.2017.1411062 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1360-080X
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