The aim of the present study was to analyze if and how career adaptability reduces different types of insecurity. More specifically, we argue in a theoretical model at the intersection of career and organizational research that perceived internal and external marketability serve as connecting variables in the link between career adaptability and job and career insecurity. We tested our assumptions by means of multiple indirect effects path analyses across two measurement points (6-month time span) with data from 142 university researchers working in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) fields. The results showed that career adaptability was positively related to perceived internal and external marketability, which both subsequently were negatively associated with job and career insecurity. We draw theoretical implications for career research in intra-and extraorganizational settings and discuss practical implications for fostering secure employment.Keywords career adaptability, job insecurity, career insecurity, internal and external marketability Over the past two decades, labor market regulations, economic and organizational changes, global business competition, and technological advancements have shaped a career and work environment

PurposeThis study illuminates the assumption that internships facilitate labor market entry and answers the question of why internships have a positive effect on students' self-perceived employability. It is assumed that internships enable more positive employability perceptions by reducing career-entry worries – the worries of not finding a suitable job or not being able to obtain a satisfactory career.Design/methodology/approachA two-wave study among graduate students currently in an internship investigated these relationships. Data on career-entry worries, perceived employability and an evaluation of the internship were collected from 80 students (mean age: 24.6 years, 68% female) from various fields of study aiming at both bachelor's and master's degrees.FindingsThe results showed that positively evaluated internships contributed to graduates' self-perceived employability by means of reduced career-entry worries over an eight-week period.Originality/valueBy considering graduates' career-entry worries – the perceived uncertainty about finding an “appropriate” career in the future – the authors introduce a new concept to the career literature and show that these worries are significant in terms of self-assessed employability.

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This study aims at expanding the evidence-base of coaching and explores how coaching contributes to coping. It offers a model for coaching as an intervention affecting an individual’s stress management, which, in essence, explores one psychological “mechanism” of coaching-facilitated change by relating self-management with coping and taking into account self-efficacy as a mediator. We hypothesize that coaching alters clients’ self-management skills and self-efficacy beliefs, and further, in light of previous assumptions on the relation between these variables, that an increase in self-management skills affects individual coping mediated by self-efficacy. Results of a structural equation model support this theoretical framework. Results of hierarchical regression analyses on longitudinal data over a 10-week period additionally demonstrate that clients of a controlled coaching intervention significantly advance in both self-management and self-efficacy in comparison with a nontreated control group. Finally, the results provide preliminary support for coaching affecting individual stress management in terms of reduced ruminative tendencies.

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