Career adaptability and career success in the context of a broader career resources framework.
Haenggli, M. & Hirschi, A. (2020). Career adaptability and career success in the context of a broader career resources framework. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 119, 103414. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103414
Abstract
Increasing dynamics of careers make the development and application of different career resources important for successful career development. The study aimed to understand how different career resources are related to each other and different forms of career success. Examining 574 employees with 3-waves of 1-month time lags, we assessed relations between key resources (i.e., self-esteem and optimism), career adaptability resources (i.e., concern, control, curiosity, confidence), and knowledge/skills, motivational, and environmental career resources and their predictive utility for different forms of subjective and objective career success (i.e., salary). Results showed that career adaptability resources are highly related to other types of career resources, but career adaptability and other career resources each explain unique variance in different facets of career success. Using relative weight analyses, we found that especially motivational and environmental career resources are meaningfully positively related to different facets of subjective career success, whereas knowledge and skills career resources are most prominently positively related to objective career success. Under consideration of other career resources, career adaptability related negatively to salary. The findings contribute to career construction theory by situating career adaptability within a broader resource framework in relation to career success.
Keywords
Career adaptability; Career resources; Key resources; Subjective career success; Objective career success; Career construction theory
Career adaptability and social support of vocational students leaving upper secondary school.
Hlad'o, P., Kvaskova, L., Jezek, S., Hirschi, A., & Macek, P. (2020). Career Adaptability and Social Support of Vocational Students Leaving Upper Secondary School Journal of Career Assessment, 28(3), 478-495. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069072719884299
Abstract
This study used a sample of 3,028 vocational upper secondary Czech students to validate the measurement model of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale—Czech Form, assessing concern, control, curiosity, and confidence as the psychosocial resources for managing occupational transitions, developmental tasks, and work traumas. We moreover examined the associations of parental psychosocial support, parental instrumental support (action), teacher support, and peer support with the four components of career adaptability. As expected, social support provided by significant others was positively associated with career adaptability. Diverse sources of social support related differently to various career adaptability components. Career concern and confidence were asso- ciated simultaneously with parental psychosocial support, teacher support, and peer support while control was associated only with the parental and friend support and curiosity was associated with the social support from teachers and friends. Moreover, parental instrumental support did not show any significant link to career adaptability components.
Keywords
career adaptability, Career Adapt-Abilities Scale, social support, parental support, teacher support, peer support
Career adaptability profiles and their relationship to adaptivity and adapting
Hirschi, A., & Valero, D. (2015). Career adaptability profiles and their relationship to adaptivity and adapting. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 88,220-229, doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2015.03.010
Career adaptivity, adaptability, and adapting: A conceptual and empirical investigation
Hirschi, A., Herrmann, A., & Keller, A. (2015). Career adaptivity, adaptability, and adapting: A conceptual and empirical investigation. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 87, 1-10. doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2014.11.008
The career resources model: an integrative framework for career counsellors
Hirschi, A. (2012). The career resources model: an integrative framework for career counsellors. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 40(4), 369-383. doi:10.1080/03069885.2012.700506
Career adaptability development in adolescence: Multiple predictors and effects on sense of power and life satisfaction
Hirschi, A. (2009). Career adaptability development in adolescence: Multiple predictors and effects on sense of power and life satisfaction. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 74(2), 145-155. doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2009.01.002