Protean career processes in young adults:
      Relationships with perceived future employability, educational performance, and
      commitment

Kim, Sujin; Creed, Peter Alexander; Hood, Michelle; Bath, Debra

doi:10.1007/s10775-023-09584-0

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“…In this context, Fernandez & Enache (2008) demonstrated that university students with stronger protean career attitudes exhibit a stronger sense of attachment to the workplace. Sinclair et al (2005) showed that commitment among working university students is associated with task and organisational citizenship behaviours (Kim et al, 2023).…”

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Attitudes Towards New Career Approaches among Working Students: A Comparative Analysis with Non-Student Employees

Ozturk,

Yildirim

2024

MMI

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This research sought to explore the new career approaches of employed students. A comparative analysis was conducted with nonstudent employees to comprehensively grasp the novel career attitudes of working students. The neoliberal era has profoundly reshaped various disciplines, including economics, human resource management, and employment structures. Among these changes, career management has undergone a significant transformation. Conventional organisational careers have been supplanted by new approaches such as boundaryless, protean, subjective career success and kaleidoscope careers. These emerging career paradigms align with the emergence of novel forms of employment. Moreover, in an increasingly liberalised world, the rising costs of education and the growing prevalence of paid education are prompting students to enter the workforce while continuing their studies. The proliferation of companies offering part-time employment, such as private employment agencies, corresponds to an increase in students seeking part-time work. In other words, supply and demand within the part-time labour market intersect more robustly. Furthermore, working students gain valuable experience while employed, shaping the future supply of the labour market. Our research aims to assess the suitability of new career approaches for future workers and contributes to unravelling their complexities. The study also investigates whether employees are students and whether this affects their career approaches. To analyse this research, boundaryless career attitude and professional career attitude scales were utilised as assessment tools. These new career approaches represent innovation in careers. The research dataset comprised responses from 521 working students and 374 nonstudent employees, all of whom were actively employed in Istanbul, the most populous city in Turkey and home to many universities. The data analysis employed a quantitative research methodology using descriptive statistics, factor analysis, correlation analysis, and independent t tests. The findings revealed that working students exhibited significantly greater boundaryless career orientation, organisational mobility, boundaryless mindset, and value-driven career attitudes than did their nonstudent counterparts. The outcomes of this study will make a valuable contribution to the existing body of literature concerning employed students. Furthermore, the findings are anticipated to provide valuable insights into formulating and implementing human resources policies within organisations that engage in student employment practices. By shedding light on the experiences, challenges, and potential areas for improvement in this context, this research aims to inform and enhance the effectiveness of human resource strategies tailored toward working students.

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Attitudes Towards New Career Approaches among Working Students: A Comparative Analysis with Non-Student Employees

Ozturk,

Yildirim

2024

MMI

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“…capital; Donald et al, 2019), and subsequently increase their perceived employability (Baluku et al, 2021;Ho et al, 2023;Qenani et al, 2014). This hints at within-person changes, yet this has rarely been examined (Van Harten et al, 2021): Most studies focus on between-person differences rather than within-person changes (Ho et al, 2023;Kim et al, 2023). Taking a career development perspective, the relationship between career engagement and perceived employability is assumed to go in the opposite direction.…”

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Dynamic interconnections between career engagement and perceived employability among recent graduates: a latent change score modeling approach

Grosemans,

Forrier,

De Cuyper

2024

HESWBL

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine career engagement and perceived employability during the school-to-work transition. We studied within-person changes in career engagement and perceived employability in the transition from higher education to the labor market. We investigated their dynamic reciprocal relationship to unravel whether career engagement or perceived employability is the leading indicator in the relationship in view of providing adequate support for students during the school-to-work transition.Design/methodology/approachWe conducted latent change score (LCS) analyses on a three-wave sample of 701 graduates in Flanders (Belgium). We collected data in July (right before graduation), November and May. LCS is a novel method allowing to simultaneously test change and reciprocal relationships.FindingsOur findings demonstrated how both career engagement and perceived employability changed (within-person) non-linearly during the school-to-work transition. As for their relationship, we found that perceived employability is the driving force in the relationship. Perceived employability fueled subsequent positive changes in career engagement, whereas career engagement did not lead to subsequent changes in perceived employability.Originality/valueOur study connects the career development and the graduate employability literature, and examines the school-to-work transition from preparation for the labor market to ten months after graduation. We also make an important methodological contribution, demonstrating the added value of LCS for studying employability in higher education. Our findings provide insights in how higher education institutions may support students in the school-to-work transition.

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How protean career orientation affects career decidedness: The mediating role of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy

Karimi,

Esmaeili,

Yaghoubi Farani

2024

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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Protean career processes in young adults: Relationships with perceived future employability, educational performance, and commitment

Cited by 5 publications

References 97 publications

Attitudes Towards New Career Approaches among Working Students: A Comparative Analysis with Non-Student Employees

Attitudes Towards New Career Approaches among Working Students: A Comparative Analysis with Non-Student Employees

Dynamic interconnections between career engagement and perceived employability among recent graduates: a latent change score modeling approach

How protean career orientation affects career decidedness: The mediating role of career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy

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