Psycho-social Career Meta-capacities

This book offers an in-depth view of 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.

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.

Inhalt

1. Employability approaches to contemporary careers.- 2. Protean career attitude as a positive approach to unemployment.- 3.Personality and psycho-social employability attributes as meta-capacities for sustained employability.- 4. A psychological career resources framework for contemporary career development.- 5. Adaptability in Action: Using Personality, Aptitude and Interest Data to Help Clients Increase their Social, Emotional and Cognitive Career Meta-capacities.- 6. Entrepreneurship as 21st century skill: Research findings and theories on entrepreneurial development.- 7. Psycho-social career meta-capacities in organisational career development.- 8. Person-Environment Fit and Vocational Outcomes.- 9. Career anchors as a meta-capacity in career development.- 10. Career meta-competencies in the retention of employees.- 11. Career wellbeing and psycho-social career meta-capacities.- 12. Well-being and Flourishing in Career Development Context.- 13. Psychological ownership.- 14. Sense of coherence and career development.- 15. The role of positive psychology and wellbeing in career development.- 16. Psycho-social career meta capacities in academic career development.- 17. Using career construction to facilitate the career adaptability of prospective students in the natural sciences: A South African case study.- 18. Flourishing interventions: a practical guide to student academic career development.- 19. Enacted Negotiation Narratives of Career Development amongst Previously Disadvantaged Groups in South Africa.- 20. Designing learning experiences to prepare lifelong learners for the complexities of the workplace.