Author/Authors :
KORKUT, Ali Dicle Üniversitesi - Yabancı Diller Yüksekokulu, Turkey , KESKİN, İsmail Dicle Üniversitesi - Ziya Gökalp Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey
Abstract :
‘Career’ draws attention as one of the ‘most favorite expressions of the work lifestudents will come face to face after their graduation. Students perceptions of career, a holistic phenomenon describing all experience and accomplishments gained throughout their education and work life, may have impact on their relationships in the workplace and influence or play an important role on their perspectives regarding the administrative and leadership practice. The purpose of this paper is to study the university students’ career perceptions through metaphors. The work group is constituted by 125 students at the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Dicle University in 2013-2014 educational year. Qualitative data collection techniques were used in the research. Research data were collected by making participants fill in a sentence: Career is like ........... because ........ The relationship between the subject and the source is identified by an expression ‘like’; and the background of the metaphorical imagination is evaluated by the word ‘because’. In this research was used phenomenological design, along with a qualitative research method. The analysis and interpretation process of the metaphors follows (1) metaphor identification, (2) the classification of the metaphors, (3) the category development, (4) the validity and reliability. Quantitative data were analyzed in SPSS. Content analysis technique was used in data analyses. As a result of the data analyses, it was observed that a total of 70 metaphors were developed under the 5 categories. Participants perceived career as a concept associated with concepts of efficiency’, ‘growth and maturation, path and target . Snake , sea and bug were found to be negative metaphors reminding competition, uncertainty and difficulty.
