New Doctorate Holders in the Education Field: Finding Employment of Being the Professors in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Lin, Yi-Chun, 林怡君
• Other Authors: 王如哲
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ddffd4

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育學系 === 106 === This paper is intended as an investigation of the doctorate holders in the education field. Four purposes are involved in this paper: (1) To explore the equilibrium where both supply and demand curves met in the higher education labour market in Taiwan. (2) To find out the boosts of assisting the new doctorate holders to obtain the positions of professors in Taiwan. (3) To clarify the problems the new doctorate holders faced while finding the positions of prfessors in Taiwan. (4) To draw the employment plan for the new doctorate holders to implement while applying to the teaching positions in the universities in Taiwan. For the four purposes to be achieved, this study analysed the statistics from the NPHRST database. Next, the resercher used the unstructured interview to design the later semi-structured interview from two pilot study respondents, two new doctorate holders. Later, the researcher implemented the semi-structured interview to collect further information from 24 new doctorate holders and 3 recruiting professors. These interview information is examined by NVivo and triangulation. According to the survey, the demand curve is decreasing however the supply curve is increasing in the higher education labour market in Taiwan. Based on the literature review and the pilot study, an analysis structure can be identified by three items including: (1) the personal employability, (2) the resource of employment and (3) the opportunity. The three items implied the boosts of assisting the new doctorate holders to find the professor positions. Therefore, the new doctorate holders need to strengthen their professional abilities in addition to the skill of career-planning and foreign language. Most importantly, the social network is the boost to help the new doctorate holders to connect to the possision opprotunities. On the contrary, the social network which ruins the relationship between the new doctorate holders and members from the academic clubs decreases the opportunities of being the professors. Besides, without personnel involving in the recruiting process and correct understanding between the new doctorate holders and the recruit members, this leads to an unsuccessful employment result. This study proposed the “Theory of Employment Pyramid” to explain the three main characters of employment market: (1) the personal employability, (2) the resource of employment and (3) the opportunity. Furthermore, the basement of the pyramid is the new doctorate holders’ curriculum vitae which define the beginning status for them through the employment process. Finally, this study suggests the new doctorate holders to earn monetary resource and social network to help themselves to obtain the teaching positions. Moreover, the new doctorate holders need to develop their own career ladder and adjust their imagination of the academic work to suit employers’ need. As to the employers themselves, the higher education units, they had better adjust their imagination to the new dotcorate holders and design the new doctorate curriculum to help their students to meet the market need. At last, the government sectors including the educational, the labour department and the relative ones, should cooperate with each other to set up and maintain the database of doctorate human resource.