The Portfolio Career: Pushed or Pulled to It?.

Mallon, Mary

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ERIC Number: EJ574692

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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The Portfolio Career: Pushed or Pulled to It?

Mallon, Mary

Personnel Review, v27 n5 p361-77 1998

Interviews with 22 "portfolio workers" (independent and not tied to particular employers) provide evidence that their choice resulted more from organizational "push" than the intrinsic pull of this way of working. However, once involved, most became reconciled to it. (SK)

Descriptors: Career Development, Consultants, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Occupational Mobility, Organizational Change, Portfolios (Background Materials), Self Employment

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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