This study investigates how volunteer tourism's critical events can elicit reflections about participant's careers and lead to personal/professional. Content analysis of qualitative data obtained from semistructured interviews with 20 Brazilian volunteers suggests that adverse conditions of the destination, unusual situations faced during the program, and culture shock experienced at the host community, triggered transformative learning processes involving changes in social‐linguistic, psychological, and moral‐ethical perspectives, often interwoven. Research also suggests that volunteer tourism contributes to the practitioner's career sustainability and employability, as well as to careers re‐evaluations resulting from new behaviors and worldviews developed during their experience.

Purpose: This paper aims to understand the motivations involved in volunteer tourism activities and the meaning of the experience to the volunteers in a post-modern context. Originality/value: Volunteer tourism is a response to the socioeconomic transformations of the 21st century. It is related to the contemporary search for meaning in the spheres of life and work. In this sense, the study proposes a new reflexive approach to the work debate, integrating issues involving the mobilization of subjectivity and post-modern perspectives. Design/method/approach: This study is a qualitative investigation with results collected through semi-structured interviews. Content analysis was used to analyze the transcripts. Findings: The participants are individuals who travel abroad seeking a meaningful tourist experience. As consumers, they welcome life experiences that represent particular aspects of their own identity, while also looking for ways to lend added value to their careers and increase their employability. The volunteer tourism industry mobilizes the production and consumption of such subjectivities, which are related to the search for meaning in the post-modern era. Self-realization, intercultural encounters, and a different perspective on reality are some outcomes of this activity. The meaning of work is itself now a merchandising instrument.

RESUMO Sustentabilidade tem aparecido como perspectiva para a compreensão das carreiras, permitindo um olhar analítico para a realidade do trabalho e seus impactos no humano e no social. Nesse cenário, o objetivo deste ensaio teórico é discutir os pilares da noção de sustentabilidade buscando sua compreensão e aprofundando-a como elemento basilar ao conceito de carreira sustentável. Como contribuições, a perspectiva da sustentabilidade das carreiras apresenta-se como lente teórica de análise ao ressaltar de modo sistêmico e processual: a dinâmica da influência dos múltiplos contextos para a continuidade das trajetórias individuais; a continuidade da carreira por meio de movimentos no tempo e escolhas trilhadas; a interconectividade entre os diversos atores que participam da constituição de carreiras individuais; a necessidade de processos que permitam o fomento do potencial de adaptação e criação de oportunidades necessário para a sustentabilidade, entre outros aspectos.

RESUMO:Este artigo analisa as políticas e práticas de gestão de pessoas realizadas em um centro espírita. Inicia abordando alguns aspectos sobre políticas e práticas de gestão de pessoas. A seguir, aborda os temas religião e espiritualidade com o objetivo de contextualizar o espiritismo. Logo em seguida, apresenta o centro espírita pesquisado e os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados no estudo. Prosseguindo, são descritas e analisadas as políticas e práticas de gestão de pessoas adotadas pela organização espírita. Concluindo, busca-se responder se as políticas e práticas de gestão de pessoas, segundo a percepção de diferentes atores organizacionais, sofrem influência da espiritualidade.Palavras-chave: Gestão de pessoas. Políticas e práticas. Espiritismo. PEOPLE MANAGEMENT: ANALYZING THE POLICIES AND PRACTICES APPLIED IN A SPIRITIST CENTERABSTRACT: This article analyzes the policies and practice of people management carried out in a spiritist center. It begins by addressing some aspects of people management policies and practices. Next, it approaches the themes religion and spirituality with the purpose of contextualizing the spiritism. Soon after, it presentes the spiritist center researched and the methodological procedures used in the study. Following, the policies and practice of people management adopted by the organization are described and analyzed. In conclusion, we seek to answer if the

Objective: this study analyses how international literature informs the discussion of sustainability within career scope. Method: we conducted a systematic literature review through the Web of Science database and analyzed 152 papers with the sustainable-career-related keywords: resilience, systems, and ecosystem. By exploring the conceptual foundations of these concepts that have evolved in the context of career sustainability over the last three decades, we identified six clusters of different theoretical approaches. Results: these are the interplay of social spaces in the development of sustainable or unsustainable career paths; need for an open-systems perspective for organizational career management; significance of personal attributes and individual behaviors in career sustainability development; addressing satisfaction and well-being in work and life spheres; external and internal career mobility in complex environments; and contemporary sustainability challenges and their implications for careers, cities, and governments. Conclusion: based on the findings, we established six assumptions that may guide future empirical research in this field.