Factors shaping engineering PhD students’ career preferences for academia y industry
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https://doi.org/10.14482/indes.24.2.7706Keywords:
engineering PhD students, career preferences, job attributesAbstract
Research has demonstrated that job decisions made by engineering PhD students are influenced by their career preferences for academia or industry. Studies have found that career preferences are shaped by a set of factors including age, gender, the presence of children, y parents' educational attainment. However, an all-embracing approach has not been used to investigate the shaping of students' career preferences. This article analyzes the factors that have a relation with the shaping of 63 PhD students' career preferences enrolled in a Colombian university. An analysis of the relationship between an array of factors y students' career preferences is made. Age, the presence of children, and mother's educational attainment have a relation with the shaping of students' career preferences for academia. Conversely, not having job experience before enrolling in the PhD program shapes students' interest in non-academic job positions.References
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