The Role of Career Adaptabilities for Mid-Career Changers

Autor/inn/en	Brown, Alan; Bimrose, Jenny; Barnes, Sally-Anne; Hughes, Deirdre
Titel	The Role of Career Adaptabilities for Mid-Career Changers
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 80 (2012) 3, S.754-761 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0001-8791
DOI	10.1016/j.jvb.2012.01.003
Schlagwörter	Career Change; Vocational Adjustment; Personality Traits; Biographies; Adults; Interviews; Informal Education; Motivation; Behavior; Foreign Countries; Norway; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Career changes; Berufswechsel; Personalanpassung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Ausland; Norwegen; Großbritannien
Abstract	Career adaptability is mediated by personality factors and socio-psychological processes, with learning playing an important role. Using a five-fold career adapt-abilities competency framework (defined here as control, curiosity, commitment, confidence and concern), which was developed from the international quantitative study that is the focus of this special edition, an explicitly qualitative study of the career biographies of mid-career changers from two European countries was undertaken. Data from 64 in-depth interviews with adults in contrasting labor markets from Norway and the UK were analysed deductively, using a career adapt-abilities framework. Results demonstrate the utility of the framework, as well as how adaptive adults used both formal and informal learning to develop career adapt-ability competencies, over time, across occupations and occupational sectors. A key conclusion relates to how this career adapt-abilities competency framework could be used to motivate adults in mid-career to adopt behaviors that help them effect positive career change. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10