Psychology of Career Adaptability, Employability and Resilience

Annotation This book examines how the career counselling profession should respond to the changes in the world of work that have resulted from the increasing need to communicate faster and disseminate information more efficiently. It emphasizes the twin aims of enhancing a persons' career adaptability and helping them to become more employable, rather than linearly trying to find a job and remaining in one organisation for their entire career-lives. The book shows that, to achieve these aims, people need to acquire career resilience, especially since the world of work no longer provides workers with work-holding environments for the duration of their career-lives. It takes into account historical analyses which show that whenever major technological change has occurred and widespread job losses have ensued, people have managed to use the new technology to create new employment opportunities. Readers from career psychology and management research, vocational and professional career coaching, and students of career psychology will find this book delivers sound, updated theory demonstrating how perceived threats in the 21st century can conceivably be turned into opportunities Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Psychology of Career Adaptability, Career Resilience, and Employability: A Broad Overview (Kobus Maree)....Pages 3-11 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Career Adaptability: Changing Self and Situation for Satisfaction and Success (Paul J. Hartung, Michael C. Cadaret)....Pages 15-28 The Foundations of Career Resilience (Reinekke Lengelle, Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden, Frans Meijers)....Pages 29-47 Life and Career Design Dialogues and Resilience (Jacques Pouyaud, Valérie Cohen-Scali, Marie-Line Robinet, Laurie Sintes)....Pages 49-64 The Importance of Career Adaptability, Career Resilience, and Employability in Designing a Successful Life (Jérôme Rossier, Maria Cristina Ginevra, Grégoire Bollmann, Laura Nota)....Pages 65-82 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 Assessing Career Adaptability (Patrick J. Rottinghaus, Nikki A. Falk, Alec Eshelman)....Pages 85-105 A Review of Empirical Studies on Employability and Measures of Employability (Annamaria Di Fabio)....Pages 107-123 Determining Career Resilience (Shékina Rochat, Jonas Masdonati, Jean-Pierre Dauwalder)....Pages 125-141 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 Facilitating Adaptability and Resilience: Career Counselling in Resource-Poor Communities in South Africa (Linda C. Theron)....Pages 145-159 Using the U-Cube for Career Counselling with Adolescents to Develop Career Conversations (Carolyn Alchin, Peter McIlveen)....Pages 161-170 Counselling Young Adults to Become Career Adaptable and Career Resilient (Jennifer J. del Corso)....Pages 171-188 Adult Career Counselling: Narratives of Adaptability and Resilience (Mark Watson, Mary McMahon)....Pages 189-204 Front Matter ....Pages 205-205 Career Adaptability, Employability and Resilience for Children in the Early School Years (Wendy Patton)....Pages 207-223 Using the Dialogical Concept of the “Architecture of Life Space” in Facilitating Career Adaptability, Resilience and Coping with Transitions (Violetta Drabik-Podgórna)....Pages 225-239 Career Adaptability, Employability, and Career Resilience in Managing Transitions (Maria Eduarda Duarte, José Tomás da Silva, Maria Paula Paixão)....Pages 241-261 Front Matter ....Pages 263-263 Promoting Affirmative Career Development and Work Environment for LGBT Individuals (Jacks Cheng, Elyssa M. Klann, Nelson O. O. Zounlome, Y. Barry Chung)....Pages 265-282 Women’s Career Construction: Promoting Employability Through Career Adaptability and Resilience (Jacqueline J. Peila-Shuster)....Pages 283-297 Career Adaptability, Employability, and Career Resilience of Asian People (Hsiu-Lan Shelley Tien, Yu-Chen Wang)....Pages 299-314 Front Matter ....Pages 315-315 Paradigm and Promise: Life Design, Psychology of Working, and Decent Work (William C. Briddick, Hande Sensoy-Briddick)....Pages 317-327 Career Self-determination Theory (Charles P. Chen)....Pages 329-347 Utilizing Career Adaptability and Career Resilience to Promote Employability and Decent Work and Alleviate Poverty (Kobus Maree)....Pages 349-373 Career Changes on the Horizon: The Importance of Group Norms in Interpreting Results of Career Adaptability Measures (Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir)....Pages 375-396 Understanding Career Resilience and Career Adaptability in Challenging and Vulnerable Contexts (Marcelo Afonso Ribeiro)....Pages 397-414 Career Adaptability and Career Resilience: The Roadmap to Work Inclusion for Individuals Experiencing Disability (Lea Ferrari, Teresa Maria Sgaramella, Sara Santilli, Ilaria Di Maggio)....Pages 415-431 Fostering Career Adaptability and Resilience and Promoting Employability Using Life Design Counseling (Kevin W. Glavin, Rachel A. Haag, Lisa K. Forbes)....Pages 433-445 Front Matter ....Pages 447-447 Epilogue: An Essay About Adaptability, Employability, and Resilience in an Age of Uncertainty (David L. Blustein)....Pages 449-453