Year: 2022
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This paper reports findings from study on secretarial education students’ career aspirations in a Chinese second-tier university to explain why graduates choose career other than being secretaries in private sectors. Adopting social learning theory of career decision making along with data analysis, the findings unveils that individual characteristics, including fallback option and seeing secretarial education as a stepping stone, account for students’ choosing of secretarial education major. At the same time, task-approach skills had a significant impact on students for not choosing secretarial career in private companies. Environmental conditions and learning experiences justify students’ choice of careers in governmental organization and public sectors. Participants’ perceptions about secretarial education programs are discussed along with implications.
Author: <p>Bingjie Gu</p>
Institution: Ningbo University of Finance & Economics
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4313166311