Author(s):
Pinto, Joana Carneiro 
; Taveira, Maria do Céu
Date: 2011
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/14180
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): Self-career management; Intervention; Effectiveness
Description
This article reports the findings of the assessment of the
effectiveness of a self-career management intervention, named
"Self-Career Management Seminar", specifically developed for,
and implemented in a group of research grant holders. The
program invites participants to foster their self-knowledge, the
knowledge about advanced training opportunities, employment
creation and attainment, as well as, life-career planning and
decision-making competencies. The intervention was applied in
80 research grant holders (50, 62.5% experimental group; 30,
37.5% control group; 51, 63.8% women; Mage = 28.94,
SDage = 5.83), at a public university in the northwest of
Portugal, who completed measures of career exploration, and
of career concerns, at a pre and post-test. Results showed
equivalence between experimental and control groups, at pre-
-treatment, in almost all assessed dimensions. Furthermore, in
comparison with the control group, research grant holders who
attended this intervention had, at post-test, higher levels of
career exploration. This study intends to emphasize the need
for the development of intervention programs tailored to
specific population groups, such as the research grant holders.
