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“...Some People Achieve Greatness...”: A Study Correlating early Vocational Behaviour with ultimate Vocational Achievement

“...Some People Achieve Greatness...”: A Study Correlating early Vocational Behaviour with ultimate Vocational Achievement
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Author(s): Tony Richardson (Massey University, New Zealand)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 5
Source title: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-929-8.ch438
ISBN13: 9781599049298
EISBN13: 9781466665378

Abstract

Discovering the right people for the job, any job, is a complex, frustrating and often fruitless activity. In recruiting graduates, employers are not simply looking for someone to do a job, they are more likely seeking to take on candidates who have the potential to rise to the highest ranks within organisations. They are seeking those candidates who, a decade hence, will be seen as high-achievers, but identifying such potential in fresh graduates has proven to be elusive. While the decision support role of Information Systems should be considerable. within this domain, in fact an IS framework founded on actual vocational data is entirely lacking. The crux of this research is to generate and analyse that data in order to determine whether known high-achieving employees exhibited signature behaviour when they were raw recruits almost a decade earlier. It is proposed that the results from this research be used as enabling knowledge for the development of sophisticated assessment simulation Information Systems, whereby signature behaviour may be potentially stimulated and evaluated.

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