Journal Articles

Career Development International

Published by Emerald Publishing • ISSN: 13620436

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Protean career orientation as a compass for career development in the digital age

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Purpose: Drawing on the digital educational context (DEC) (Bazine and Fréour, 2024) and the protean career framework (Hall et al., 2018), this study aimed to analyze how protean career orientation (PCO) influences career behaviors through the DEC and Learning behaviors with technologies (LBT). Desig…

How to engage and retain employed students

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Purpose: Our study aims to examine how polychronicity (or individuals’ preference for multitasking) and cognitive crafting (or mental reappraisal of one’s job scope) relate to job satisfaction while mitigating turnover intentions among employed students. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 204 e…

Employability skills of the next generation of Chinese factory workers

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Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to develop and test an employability scale in a Chinese context. Moreover, the authors investigated how socioeconomic status indicators (education and occupation of parents, household income and hukou, i.e. household registration location) affect the endow…

Striving for sustainable graduate careers: Conceptualization via career ecosystems and the new psychological contract

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to conceptually articulate the differing needs of graduates and graduate employers, which can be competing or complementary in nature. Drawing from theoretical frameworks of career ecosystems and the new psychological contract, a set of propositions are presente…

The career impact of management education from an average-ranked university: Human capital perspective

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the understanding of the added value of management studies, as the current state of research in the field has focused principally on studies undertaken at prestigious institutions. In addition, this study tests the extent to which career-related attit…

Engineering identities

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Employers attempt to shape employees' work identities through the organisation of work. However, they are partly constrained by employee expectations related to education and training, the occupational structure and the labour market. Employees, individually and collectively, also attempt to influen…