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Publication Date: 2013-Mar
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Career-Life Preparedness: Revisiting Career Planning and Adjustment in the New Workplace
Lent, Robert W.
Career Development Quarterly, v61 n1 p2-14 Mar 2013
Although the economic and social context of work appears to be changing for more and more people, the author argues that time-honored and empirically supported theories of career development continue to be relevant and useful. However, these theories and the core assumptions that underlie them (e.g., the "matching metaphor") may need to be augmented by models and methods that help students and workers to prepare to a greater degree for difficult developmental transitions, obstacles to preferred career paths, and negative career-life events such as unplanned job loss. The author offers a view of "career-life preparedness" that, while informed by social-cognitive career theory, is largely compatible with other approaches to career development and is linked conceptually to other recent work on career adaptability, resilience, and coping.
Descriptors: Social Environment, Career Development, Career Planning, Models, Job Training, Career Counseling, Employment, Intervention
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Language: English
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