Going “portfolio”: Making sense of changing careers

Career Development International

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 358-370

  Mallon, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Career development; Learning; Public sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986165596     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620439910295727     Document Type: Article

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