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Volume 11, 2024, review article, open access, understanding contemporary career success: a critical review.

• Scott Seibert 1 , Jos Akkermans 2 , and Cheng-Huan (Jerry) Liu 1
• View Affiliations Hide Affiliations Affiliations: 1 Human Resource Management Department, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA; email: [email protected] 2 Department of Management and Organization, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Vol. 11:509-534 (Volume publication date January 2024) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-120920-051543
• First published as a Review in Advance on December 08, 2023
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This article provides a critical review of developments in the literature on career success. We review work from both the organizational psychology (OP) and organizational behavior (OB) disciplines, highlighting the different perspectives, strengths, and weaknesses of each area, and attempt to reconcile these perspectives on career success to suggest productive new research directions. First, the article reflects on conceptualizations of objective and subjective career success and their relative value to the field. We then discuss several categories of career success predictors drawn from economic, sociological, and social-psychological perspectives used in OP and OB. These include human capital, internal and external labor markets, sponsorship and social capital, stable and malleable individual differences, and career self-management behaviors. We provide research suggestions within each of those sections as well as an integrative research agenda built around several emerging issues and theoretical perspectives, encouraging future research on the implications of sustainable careers, career shocks, marginalized group experiences, and alternative employment arrangements for career success.

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The why, what and how of career research: a review and recommendations for future study

• Y. Baruch , S. Sullivan
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The field of careers studies is complex and fragmented. The aim of this paper is to detail why it is important to study careers, what we study and how we study key issues in this evolving field.

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Career is diversifying its meanings continuously. Being able to understand the main trends allows students looking for a job to develop a better professional identity and companies to adjust their practices and culture to the new context. The paper is a descriptive one, looking to see the perception of business administration bachelor students in relation to core theories and ideas regarding career. Survey and focus-group are used as research methods. The research questions are looking into conceptual positioning of the students (they favour the learning and development approach to career and dislike political perspective to career); locus of their career initiative (they assume career initiative and rely less on employers or public institutions); balance of career capitals according to Bourdieu (there is a perceived lack of economic capital first, social capital second, and cultural capital third); vocational preferences (social and entrepreneurial are slightly ahead the other ones, and conventional is the least preferred one); career stages (the majority of the students placed themselves in growth - surprising result that leads to further research) and concern regarding discrimination forms than might affect the students (age and disability being their main concern).

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