TY - JOUR
T1 - Aligning Athletes’ Career Choices and Graduate Degree Pathways
T2 - Implications for 21st-Century Career Development Professionals
AU - Haslerig, Siduri J.
AU - Navarro, Kristina M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Curators of the University of Missouri 2015.
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - Higher education career development professionals are charged with more than understanding the challenges and needs of a diverse student body, and they must also prepare students for career fields in life after higher education. This empirical study explored the graduate degree choices and career aspirations of 14 college athletes who competed in football at large, highly selective Division I/Research I universities. This study aimed to further understand how life experiences influence graduate degree choice and the subsequent alignment of chosen degree path and future career aspirations. Findings of this study were guided by Savickas’ career construction theory. Personal narratives were collected in semi-structured individual interviews and analyzed using the constant comparative method. This study presents implications and recommendations for contemporary career development practitioners who work with college athletes as they engage in processes of career exploration, choice, and preparation.
AB - Higher education career development professionals are charged with more than understanding the challenges and needs of a diverse student body, and they must also prepare students for career fields in life after higher education. This empirical study explored the graduate degree choices and career aspirations of 14 college athletes who competed in football at large, highly selective Division I/Research I universities. This study aimed to further understand how life experiences influence graduate degree choice and the subsequent alignment of chosen degree path and future career aspirations. Findings of this study were guided by Savickas’ career construction theory. Personal narratives were collected in semi-structured individual interviews and analyzed using the constant comparative method. This study presents implications and recommendations for contemporary career development practitioners who work with college athletes as they engage in processes of career exploration, choice, and preparation.
KW - career decision making
KW - career development
KW - graduate students
KW - higher education
KW - student-athletes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84964819217&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0894845315597472
DO - 10.1177/0894845315597472
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84964819217
SN - 0894-8453
VL - 43
SP - 211
EP - 226
JO - Journal of Career Development
JF - Journal of Career Development
IS - 3
ER -