- working for different companies (out of which one night-time job);
- a position divided alternatively between two employees;
- employment for only a few days a week (for retired and unemployed over 50
years old); - working from home;
- temporary jobs in busy seasons;
- seasonal jobs;
- occupying two positions within the same institution, etc.
The process of decision-making is strongly dependent on information, namely providing
information, rendering it adequate, managing it, accuracy, quality, cognitive processing
by users, etc. The entire process (which is not wholly rational and foreign to intuition or
inspiration) requires understanding / acquisition / interiorisation of information and its
processing, temporal sequences of decision and indecision or of independence and
dependence, all leading in the end to the creation of a stable self-image (preferably
positive and realistic) and of decisions which will be acted upon voluntarily,
independently, persistently and with strong motivational support.
Some of the choices made by people are due to significant events occurring in their lives,
and in other situations decisions regarding career development are made according to the
way they interpret or understand the information received from various sources, all
related to the way they see themselves in real life contexts, in other words, they “create”
their future by what they believe and do.
As styles of decision-making we identify two situations with opposites: spontaneous –
systematic (according to the reactions to the information about the problem) and internal
- external (according to the analysis of the information useful in any decision); it may be
that only the respective person is involved in this process, and/or friends / family, as well
as and/or the society through various means of “pressure” for social and professional
insertion.
Recent research underlines that in identifying a job opportunity over 50% of the people
had the help of their friends, acquaintances, etc., and about a third (especially young
people) found a job through computerized data sources specialized in the field. The
increase of the Internet use over the past years to seek and find employment is significant.
In certain situations which seem to be increasingly frequent, and as if inspite of the most
rational models of decision making in terms of educational and professional options,
individuals follow another course. Their decision is justified by the priority and urgency
of finding a solution to a personal case:
- “today, tomorrow or one of these days I absolutely must enrol in a school
programme”;