This paper describes and analyzes how individuals and organizations that operate in careers in communications and marketing deal with the search for employees / employers, and how recruiting managers and recruitment consultants are working to create a match between the parties. The study was conducted on behalf of a recruitment agency that offers services in recruiting and staffing for organizations in communication and marketing. The empirical material consists of ten qualitative interviews from three different perspectives on the labor market, recruitment consultants, managers and employees. The interviews were analyzed from sociological and social psychological theories of organizations and individuals opportunities and strategies in today's western labor market. Conclusions that emerged are that organizations need for decreased amount of tied assets provides increased need for temporary employments.

In this essay I examine the auto fictive self in Jeanette Wintersons Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. I do this through a close reading of the novel using Mieke Bals narratological terms;narrator, story, fabula, time and order. These narratological terms have been merged together with central themes of the book. I look at the readers understanding of the novel, the relation between fairytale and realism, symbols, intertextuality, the mother-daughter relationship and silences and I analyze these themes in their relation to autofiction and the auto fictive self.  Gemma Lopez Seductions and Narratives has been a key reference, mainly her theories on self-creation in narratives, and the construction of the self, trough language. The narrative is the place where the self can transgress and reshape, which gives the narrative a subversive power. I analyze this presumed power, and look at how the story shapes an opportunity for the subject to see itself.

Our society has faced monumental changes and therefore our working life has changed as well. We are now in the twentieth first century and still our labor market is gender-segregated. Today networking is an important part of working life and one cannot emphasize enough the importance of having good connections in your network. Networking is now seen as an important tool when it comes to your career. In the past networking has been the men?s arena and it has almost been seen as a male institution.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att belysa invandrade akademikers svårigheter på den svenska arbetsmarknaden och empirin består av sex intervjuer; varav fem arbetsförmedlare och en introduktionsförmedlare. Frågeställningen lyder: Vilka hinder finns och hur ser situationen ut på den svenska arbetsmarknaden för invandrade akademiker?Jag använder mig av empirin som består av intervjuer och belyser den med teorier, varav den övergripande teoribildningen är Erving Goffmans teori i boken Stigma - Den avvikandes roll och identitet. Bakgrunden till uppsatsen är statistik från integrationsverket som visar på att sysselsättningsgraden för inrikes födda ligger på 75 % medan den för utrikes födda ligger på 59 %. Statistiken visar även att invandrare, även de med akademisk utbildning, ofta hänvisas till vissa branscher, som industri och vårdyrken, och även till lågbetalda arbeten.

Ruins and derelict places have since long fascinated and attracted humans. With my starting point in the wild vegetation and the spontaneous activities taking place on derelict land and in industrial ruins, I explore with help from the theoretical sociology, what creates not only this fascination but also fear. The purpose of the thesis is to explore and exemplify how the industrial ruin as a place outside the restrictions and control as well as design intentions of modern society can be used as an inspiration in a landscape architecture context.The modern city consists of areas and places with a well defined purpose. A piece of derelict land or a disused building is instead ambiguous, undefined and open for new purposes. However described in negative terms, these placesare often perceived as places of mystery and magic.

This bachelor essay is divided into two parts, the first being a construction of a single-familyhouse and the second an in-depth study of five different isolation materials, analysed from anenergy perspective.The first part, the construction of the single-family house, has been created from knowledgeacquired during three years of studying at KTH Royal institute of Technology in Stockholm, inthe program Architecture and the Built Environment. The constructed house is a one-floorhouse of 137m2with façade plaster, situated in Borlänge, Sweden. The house has a wooden framewhich is built on a on sight cast concrete foundation, on the ground. The house?s roof is a gableroof, which has an angle of 24 degrees.

This thesis of 15 hp has been implemented at Halmstad University, in collaboration with Saab Dynamics in Linköping. Saab Dynamics is a company operating in the defence industry where competition is tough. This necessitates new ways to increase efficiency in the company, which is the basis for this thesis. Saab Dynamics wants to introduce simulation driven design. Since Saab Dynamics engineers have little experience of simulation, required a user methodology with clear guidelines.

The global spread of the Internet has enabled busniesses and consumers in all industries to be better informed. Consequently, the buying process has appeared to become different from what tratditional models implies. As the buying behaviour among customers is evolving, selling companies are responding to this change. This thesis evolves around the consequences that the developing relationship between buyer and seller in business-to-business companies has led to. The topic in focus is the buzzword and phenomena "content marketing" with its marketing and selling strategy.

The break up of the family unit leads to new living arrangements and significant changes for children. This can be an extremely upsetting experience for a child, especially if the child is old enough to understand what is happening. New living arrangements can effect a childs fundamental sense of security as well as having consequences later on in life. The object of this research paper was to examine how a group of seven people (children from split families who are now adults), interpreted and described their childhood in relation to the living arrangements they grew up with after the breakdown of the family unit. The main question areas we have examined are: How have the interviewee's living arrangements during childhood affected their understanding of themselves today? In what way has the adult's present day lifestyle been influenced by the split up of the family that they grew up with - using their own words? How do the children from split families describe and interpret concepts such as family and marriage, based on their own experiences? Our research was conducted with the help of seven people from split families who are now adults and who experienced different types of split family arrangements as a child ? permanent residence with mother/father or alternate living with both parents.

Due to exploitation of the world?s rivers, the upstream migration of anadromous species is frequently delayed or even prevented. To mitigate these problems and allow fish to migrate past obstacles, structures such as fish ladders have been developed. However, recent studies show that many of the present fish passage facilities are deficient. Monitoring and evaluation of passage facilities is therefore crucial to enable necessary adjustments.

Problem. With the Swedish public sectors problem with efficiency in mind, several reforms have beeninitiated during the last decades. These reforms go, in academic contexts, under the name?New public management?. The reforms have resulted in, among other things, an increasedcompetition, privatization and goal-orientation in the public sector.

Temat för denna uppsats är fördomar, och hur de påverkar oss i vårt identitetsskapande. Min hypotes är att vi bildar vår identitet utifrån den Andre, och genom de fördomar vi har om den Andre påverkas vårt identitetsskapande i en positiv riktning. Fördomar bygger enligt mig på en ojämn maktbalans, vilken gör att vi skapar fördomar mot människor i vår utgrupp. Det är mot utgruppen våra negativa fördomar dyker upp, beroende på den ojämna maktbalans som finns mellan in- och utgruppen, medan det är inom ingruppen våra positiva fördomar finns.Mitt syfte är att genom en teoretisk uppsats, utan någon empirisk anknytning ställa jag mig frågan: Varför har vi fördomar? Min ambition är inte att komma fram till ett entydigt svar, utan snarare hålla en klargörande diskussion kring den valda problematiken.

Financial bubbles are characterized by a large increase in the economic growth on the market as a whole or in specific industries. The change gives rise to an increase in the capital needed to finance this growth. Companies typically have a choice between equity and debt capital to finance its business and the mix of these types of capital is often referred to as the company?s capital structure. There has been a lot of research done in the field of financial bubbles and ofcapital structure, as of yet no studies seem to address these two areas in combination.The aim of this study is to examine if financial bubbles affect a company?s capital structure and through this also examine if the supposed changes in capital structure can be generalized.The study comprise of two identical time-series which examines the changes in leverage and the choice of financing during the Swedish real estate bubble in the early nineties and the IT-crash at the end of the 2000th century.

Byggsektorn befinner sig i ständig utveckling där nya produktionslösningar och konstruktioner tas fram för att öka effektiviteten och minimera kostnaderna. Syftet med denna rapport är att utvärdera två relativt nya produktionssystem: rullarmering och den mer beprövade självkompakterande betongen. Data har samlats in för att analysera enhetstider, kostnadseffekter, kvalitet, hanterbarhet och arbetsmiljö för de nya metoderna. Lean Production är resurssnål eller mager produktion översatt till svenska och är en ide för utformning av produktionsprocessen som ett flöde utan spill. Grundtanken i Lean Production är att få rätt saker, till rätt plats, vid rätt tidpunkt, i rätt kvantitet med minimalt slöseri samtidigt som produktionen är öppen för förändringar.

I det senmoderna samhället är det allt vanligare att människor skiljer sig. Det är något som är märkbart i vår närmaste omgivning, bland bekanta och vänner. Många sociologer talar om samhällsförändringar i det senmoderna samhället där dom nämner skilsmässor som en effekt av dem. Därför har vi valt att undersöka vilka omständigheter som ligger bakom och bidrar till att skilsmässor ständigt ökar i dag.Utgångspunkten för vår uppsats är vårt intresse för att förstå de ökade skilsmässorna. Vårt intresse ligger inte i första hand på effekterna av skilsmässor som till exempel på barn, ekonomiska eller emotionella konsekvenser, eftersom dessa inte ligger inom ramen för vårt arbete.