The applicants fielded a variety of questions: what in their past experience equipped them to teach?
Some sites are specialized, while others, mainly those for technology workers, offer screening mechanisms to narrow the applicant field.
But often, employers are less bothered by applicants' degree field, and more concerned that applicants have "the right thinking skills and creative skills – and that they can apply themselves to the job at hand," says Isherwood.
Subject tests are designed to help graduate schools and fellowship sponsors assess applicants in specific fields of study.
As mentioned above, applicants to all fields of study in the stream of "experimental sciences" (including medicine) participate in one examination on one day (392073 applicants for the 2003 Konkoor on experimental sciences).
Sponsoring employers are required to offer a skilled position in the applicant's field that is full time and ongoing for a period of at least two years.
The widespread approach of studying technology life cycles by measuring patent activity indices, especially patent applications, raises a practical problem: it requires the survey of all applications and applicants on a technological field.
The survey did not address reasons for the decline, though others have suggested that the nation's strong economy may be attracting potential applicants to other fields.
That it is difficult to find clear statistics on mature applicants in scientific fields may indicate some precariousness in their situation.
"In real-world hiring of tenure-track applicants in STEM fields in the United States and Canada … [t]here is a female advantage in all large-scale studies dating back to the 1980s," he and Williams write in an online appendix to their article.
A closer look at this step in the social science corpus reveals that many discussions made here are linking the applicants' proposed study/research fields with broader socio-cultural issues in China (Example 2b), which echoes the social science corpus' pattern in Table 8.
