Career Development International: Volume 29 Issue 5

(Re)Framing sustainable careers: toward a conceptual model and future research agenda

William E. Donald, Beatrice I.J.M. Van der Heijden, Graham Manville

By adopting a Social Exchange Theory (SET) lens, this paper aims to integrate the often-fragmented literature streams of Vocational Behavior (VB), Career Development (CD), and…

“Don't you worry ‘bout a thing” – the moderating role of age in the relationship between qualitative job insecurity and career sustainability

Beatrice Van der Heijden, Annabelle Hofer, Judith Semeijn

Building on a stress-related view, this study examines the impact of qualitative job insecurity on three indicators of career sustainability. It also examines the moderating role…

Career adaptability in higher vocational education: examining crossover effects from headteachers to students

Xiaochuan Jiang, Jianfeng Yang, Xiyan Wang, Yanhui Hou

To enhance the understanding of the antecedents of students' career adaptability, this study employs the crossover model to explore the potential transfer of career adaptability…

The search for greener pastures: a qualitative analysis of employee job search dynamics

Adam Kanar, Dave Bouckenooghe

This study explores job search dynamics among employed individuals. We focus on factors related to employees initiating their job searches and changing its intensity.

Revisiting mindsets for careers research: what we know, what we don’t and why we should care

Lauren A. Keating

By virtue of affecting how people perceive and respond to challenges, mindsets are conceivably consequential for, though relatively under-studied, in careers research. This paper…

The holding pattern of the worker Bs: how bifurcation of consciousness impacts female academic career progression

Fleur Sharafizad, Kerry Brown, Uma Jogulu, Maryam Omari, Michelle Gander

This paper examines an identified but unexplored career gap evidenced at a mid-level classification in the academic career path for women in Australia. This career-stalling effect…