When frames of reference lag perception of reality: Managing senior careers in the first ten years of the 21st century.

Abstract

This article summarizes a review of the careers of 50 executives who have been outstanding in traversing the careers of their professional lives. In a world of short job tenure-elongated middle age, most executives will have to simultaneously manage two separate careers. One career is called full-time assignment work and is the traditional "job." The other career is called project assignment work, also known as interim or consulting work. Many think these two careers will occur sequentially. This typical framework sets leaders up for perceived failure because this sequential model is no longer realistic. Leaders will be traversing between full time and project based work through their professional lives.

Research psychology interns’ formative training experiences

“…Orthodox career development theories assume that career trajectories are characterised by long-term relationships between individuals and organisations and a high degree of individual commitment to one organisation (Baruch, 2004; Savickas et al, 2009). Such assumptions are incompatible with 21st century, post-modern fluid economies within which individuals construct multiple professional trajectories (see Stybel & Stybel, 2007); individual interns as active social agents participate in internships as spaces for enacting multiple roles and developing formative professional trajectories (see Savickas, 2005; Savickas et al, 2009). Internships that embody a relational system of knowledge acquisition (see Conway, 1978) induct learner-workers into the profession, enable access to social networks (Baruch, 2004), and shape formative careers.…”