What is it about?
We developed a conceptual model to help us understand the sustainability of careers. We argue that career development is an active interplay between individual, contextual, and temporal factors. Also, we define health, happiness, and productivity as three key indicators of career sustainability. People will search for optimal person-career fit throughout their lives and, in doing so, they might enhance the sustainability of their career.
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Why is it important?
People have increasingly started to talk about the sustainability of careers: how can we make sure that people can effectively navigate their careers in an increasingly volatile and complex world of work? This paper is so important because it builds on the handbook of research on sustainable careers (De Vos & Van der Heijden, 2015) and offers a first attempt to conceptualize the process of career sustainability.
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I am very passionate about the topic of career sustainability and, as such, this paper was a joy to write. With our team, we had intense and lively discussions about the model, and it ultimately resulted in the model we present in the paper. I believe this model will be a good starting point for further research on sustainable careers and I am excited to be part of those developments.
Jos Akkermans
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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This page is a summary of: Sustainable careers: Towards a conceptual model, Journal of Vocational Behavior, June 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2018.06.011.
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