What is it about?
This paper provides an overview of available research on career shocks - or: chance events - and provides a definition and key dimensions of career shocks. We also provide a future research agenda on this topic.
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Why is it important?
The contemporary career literature tends to emphasize individual agency. This is important, yet it suggests that careers are competely "makeable", which clearly is not the case. Therefore, it is crucial to better understand career shocks, that is: events that take place in one's career that trigger a deliberate thought process and might impact career development decisions.
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I think it is crucial to start re-integrating the notion of career shocks in the contemporary career literature, as careers have become more complex and dynamic and, hence, the odds of people experiencing such shocks has only increased. This paper is the first in a new line of research that I am conducting with, among others, Scott Seibert and Stefan Mol, and I am very passionate about it.
Jos Akkermans
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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This page is a summary of: Tales of the unexpected: Integrating career shocks in the contemporary careers literature, SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, April 2018, AOSIS Open Journals,
DOI: 10.4102/sajip.v44i0.1503.
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