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Psycho-social Career Meta-capacities

Dynamics of contemporary career development

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  • Introduces a coherent perspective on the self-regulatory career meta-capacities needed for successful career development

  • Allows an in-depth view of the most recent research trends on the critical psycho-social constructs in career development, adaptability, employability and wellbeing

  • Offers new perspectives of career constructs and measures for career counseling and contemporary career guidance

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Psycho-Social Dynamics of the Contemporary Career Development Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-5
    2. Employability and Self-Regulation in Contemporary Careers

      • Claudia M. van der Heijde
      Pages 7-17
    3. Using Protean Career Attitude to Facilitate a Positive Approach to Unemployment

      • Lea Waters, Jon Briscoe, Douglas T. Hall
      Pages 19-33
  3. Psycho-Social Career Meta-Capacities in Organizational Career Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-122
    2. Person Environment Fit and Vocational Outcomes

      • Kerrie G. Wilkins, Terence J. G. Tracey
      Pages 123-138
    3. Career Anchors as a Meta-Capacity in Organizational Career Development

      • Melinde Coetzee, Dries (A.M.G.) Schreuder
      Pages 139-154
  4. Career Wellbeing and Psycho-Social Career Meta-Capacities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-201
    2. Flourishing in Work and Careers

      • S.(Ian) Rothmann
      Pages 203-220
    3. Sense of Coherence and Professional Career Development

      • Claude-Hélène Mayer
      Pages 221-240
  5. Psycho-Social Career Meta-Capacities in Educational Career Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-246
    2. Contemporary Career Construction: The Role of Career Adaptability

      • Laura Nota, Maria Cristina Ginevra, Sara Santilli, Salvatore Soresi
      Pages 247-263
    3. Flourishing Interventions: A Practical Guide to Student Development

      • Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl, Marius Wilhelm Stander
      Pages 265-276

About this book

This book introduces a coherent perspective on the self-regulatory career meta-capacities that individuals, as career agents, need to successfully manage their career development in a boundaryless occupational world. Enriched by empirical data and case studies by subject specialists in the fields, it serves as a cutting-edge benchmark for specialists, professionals and post-graduate students in the careers field to study. This book allows an in-depth view of the most recent research trends on the critical psycho-social constructs influencing the adaptation, adaptivity, adaptability and employability of individuals in a turbulent, uncertain and chaotic work world. In addition, it offers the practising professional new perspectives of career constructs and measures to consider in career counseling and guidance for the contemporary career.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Industrial and Organisational Psychology, University of South Africa, Muckleneuk, Gauteng, South Africa

    Melinde Coetzee

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eBook USD 84.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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