Career adaptability to prevent unexpected careers and burnout for woman employees in the remote work era.

Since the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, female remote workers need career adaptability. The main reason is that women are susceptible to mental health issues like burnout and unexpected career. To balance public and domestic roles, women need access to new skills and professional networks.

Could Intern Health Care Students Control Their Emotions and Make a Career Plan During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

The negative effects of the pandemic caused students to make changes in their career plans and their ability to manage their emotional states. Not only health students in our country, but also students in other countries of the world experienced fear, anxiety, and unwillingness to participate in professional practices and the provision of care for patients with COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was conducted to determine factors influencing intern healthcare students' career adaptability and their ability to manage emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample of this cross-sectional study consisted of 219 intern healthcare students studying at the Faculty of Health Sciences Undergraduate Program of a University in the fall semester of the 2020 to 2021 academic year. The study data were collected online using the Personal Information Form, Career Adapt-Ability Scale (CAAS), and Courtauld Emotional Control Scale (CECS). The data obtained were analyzed by using the independent samples t-test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), correlation tests, and the regression model to distinguish variables significantly. Two models explained more than 50% of the variance of CAAS and CECS regarding COVID-19, and 5.1% of the career planning regarding the period during the COVID-19 pandemic (P < .05). As the students' control over their careers decreased during the COVID-19, their feelings of anxiety and unhappiness increased (P < .05). Of the variables, sex, department, future expectations, the position dreamed of being in after graduation, and attitudes toward patient care with COVID-19 affected their CAAS and CECS scores.

Ressources personnelles, sens des études, persévérance et épanouissement: une étude longitudinale implémentant un dispositif pédagogique innovant auprès dé jeunes étudiant es français-es en contexte de COVID-19

This study explores from a longitudinal perspective the nature of correlations, changes in mean scores, and interrelations between personal resources (career adaptability and use of psychological strengths) and other variables such as meaning of education, perseverance, and flourishing. The study is conducted as part of the implementation of a reflective teaching approach during the C0VID-19 pandemic crisis. The sample includes sixty students from a French university. Correlational analyses indicate a conservation of the positive nature of the relations between some of these variables, the appearance and disappearance of some positive effects over time. While the mean score for meaning tends to increase over time, the mean score for flourishing tends to decrease. Finally, we notice a prevalence of the interrelations between the two resources and flourishing. The potential contribution of the implemented framework is discussed. © 2022 Institut National d'Etude du Travail et d'Orientation Professionnelle. All rights reserved.

Career Adaptability as a Predictor of Employees' Career Agility and Career Embeddedness

The coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted global economies and organisations, and human resources (HR) has been at the very heart of it and has had to deal with the disruption. Organisations and employees were forced to adapt to the new normal in order to survive. Since organisations are now on the road to recovery, the role of HR has become even more important. The turmoil of the modern career space requires human resource strategies that assist employees in successfully managing their career status and be more agile, embedded and adaptable in their work environment. This chapter explores the construct of career adaptability as a predictor of employees' career agility and career embeddedness. Adaptability ensures alignment with a volatile new world of work that has to contend with rapid technological and organisational changes and pandemics. This chapter reports on research showing that career adaptability predicts employees' career agility and career embeddedness. It also explores the relationship between career agility, career embeddedness and career adaptability. Finally, this chapter recommends interventions for the cultivation of career adaptability attributes to enhance individuals' agility and embeddedness in the new world of work. Based on theoretical relationships, human resource practitioners, industrial and organisational psychologists and career psychologists can identify and develop interventions and strategies to enhance employees' career adaptability and, as a result, their career agility and career embeddedness. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Strengthening career adaptation among school teachers in Pakistan: Test of strengths-based career intervention imparted through emotionalized learning experiences.

This study demonstrated that the Exemplary Teaching intervention offered to Pakistan's school teachers through the emotionalized learning experiences (ELE) format fared better than that offered through the teacher-centered methodology as regards the development of career adaptability, teaching self-efficacy, and work engagement from Time 1 to Time 2. Analyses to explore the development of career variables from Time 2 to Time 4 revealed that only the teachers who were offered the ELE intervention effectively engaged in step-by-step career construction over the academic year. Theoretical contributions of the results and implications for offering future career interventions amid COVID-19 are also discussed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10775-021-09502-2.

Renforcer l'Adaptation de la Carrière des Enseignant·e·s au Pakistan: Test d'une Intervention de Carrière Basée sur les Forces à travers l' Emotionalized Learning Experiences Cette étude a démontré que l'intervention Exemplary Teaching proposée aux enseignantes pakistanaises par le biais de emotionalized learning experiences (ELE) a donné de meilleurs résultats que celle proposée par la méthodologie centrée sur l'enseignante en ce qui concerne le développement de l'adaptabilité de la carrière, l'auto-efficacité de l'enseignement et l'engagement professionnel du Temps 1 au Temps 2. Les analyses visant à explorer le développement des variables de carrière du Temps 2 au Temps 4 ont révélé que seuls les enseignantes à qui l'on a proposé l'intervention ELE se sont effectivement engagés dans une construction de carrière étape par étape au cours de l'année scolaire. Les contributions théoriques des résultats et les implications pour proposer de futures interventions sur la carrière au sein de COVID-19 sont également discutées.

Fortalecimiento de la adaptación profesional entre los maestros de escuela en Pakistán: Prueba de intervención profesional basada en el esfuerzo e impartida a través de experiencias de aprendizaje emocionalizadas Este estudio demostró que la intervención del Exemplary Teaching ofrecido a los maestros de escuela de Pakistán a través del formato de experiencias de aprendizaje emocionalizado (ELE) fue mejor que la ofrecida a través de la metodología centrada en el maestro en lo que respecta al desarrollo de la adaptabilidad de la carrera, la autoeficacia de la enseñanza y el compromiso laboral del Tiempo 1 al Tiempo 2. Los análisis para explorar el desarrollo de las variables de carrera del Tiempo 2 al Tiempo 4 revelaron que solo los profesores a los que se les ofreció la intervención del Exemplary Teaching (ELE) participaron efectivamente en la construcción de una carrera paso a paso durante el año académico. También se discuten las contribuciones teóricas de los resultados y las implicaciones para ofrecer futuras intervenciones profesionales en medio del COVID-19.

Longitudinal relationships among career adaptability, resilience, and career commitment in chinese nursing undergraduates: testing differences in career interest between cross-lagged models.

PURPOSE: Various physiological and psychological negative situations experienced by nurses as a result of COVID-19 pandemic have been shown to increase their perception of organizational difficulty and decrease their career commitment, thereby accelerating the turnover rate of nurses. Resilience and career adaptability have important influences on career commitment, so there is a need to evaluate the relationships between them and the underlying mechanisms. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Using a cross-lagged design, the Career Adaptability Scale, the Chinese version of career commitment, and Davidson's Resilience Scale as research methods, we studied 692 nursing students for two consecutive years to evaluate the relationship among career adaptability, resilience, and career commitment. RESULTS: Career adaptability at T1 substantially and positively predicts the career commitment at T2. Career adaptability and resilience are mutually predictive. No interaction is found between resilience and career commitment over time. There is a substantial difference in the cross-lagged relationship among career adaptability, resilience, and career commitment for low- and high-career interest. CONCLUSION: Our results show the importance of developing career commitment early on. Developing career adaptability, enhancing resilience, and increasing career interest in nursing students might help to increase career commitment.

Willingness to Compromise Scale: Italian Validation and Assessment of the Relationship with Career Decision Self-Efficacy and Career Adaptability during School-to-Work Transition.

Willingness to compromise is defined as the propensity to accept an alternative career-related option that was not the one initially desired. In the literature, there is a validated scale for measuring willingness to compromise but not an Italian validation. Thus, Study 1 aimed to test the psychometric proprieties of the Willingness to Compromise Scale in a sample of 282 Italian university students. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed showing a second-order factorial structure with two well-separated first-order factors, i.e., compromising and adapting. Study 2 focused on the predicting role of willingness to compromise on career decision self-efficacy and the mediating role of career adaptability in this relationship. The sample consisted of 237 Italian university students. A mediation analysis with a 5000-bootstrap resampling procedure was computed. The results showed that willingness to compromise predicts both career decision self-efficacy and career adaptability, while career adaptability mediates the relationship between willingness to compromise and career decision self-efficacy. These findings allowed the discussion of practical implications for career guidance intervention aimed to support school-to-work transitions.

Testing the Career Construction Model of Adaptation in a Sample of Afghanistan's Working Adults: A Longitudinal Study

This study tested the Career Construction Model of Adaptation (CCMA) in a sample of Afghanistan's working adults amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The measures of adaptation were applied at three time points, that is, positive orientation toward future (adaptive readiness) at Time 1, career adaptability (adaptability resources) and competence need satisfaction at work (adapting responses) at Time 2, and meaningful work (adaptation result) at Time 3. Testing the model through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) indicated that the indirect effect of positive orientation toward future at Time 1 on meaningful work at Time 3 via the combination of career adaptability and competence need satisfaction at work at Time 2 was significant and positive. Results support Afghan employees' career construction over time. Theoretical contribution of the results and strategies for assisting Afghan employees in crafting their careers in the current political situation are discussed. Study limitations and prospects for future research are also discussed. [ FROM AUTHOR]

Career adaptability of international hospitality management students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Focus on the role of language communication competence

In addition to dealing with language, communication and cultural barriers, international students in hospitality management were suddenly confronted with bleak career prospects in a sector crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, little is known about how international students in hospitality management mobilize personal resources to cope with sudden career shock events. We address this question by developing and testing a model of career adaptability of international hospitality management students during the COVID-19 pandemic that focuses on the role of language communication competence. We draw from communication theory to argue that language communication competence enables international hospitality management students to appraise COVID-19 as presenting career opportunities that in turn motivate career adaptability contingent on cultural distance. Our results, based on a sample (n = 290) of international hospitality management students in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, support our contention. The theoretical and practical implications of our findings of the role of communicative behavior and cultural competence for coping with career transitions in periods of crises are fully discussed.

Psychological fortitude model for digitally mindset working adults.

Introduction: The inception of Industry 4.0 (which includes smart digital technologies and intelligence), as well as the rapidly enforced adoption of the technological revolution due to the lockdown regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought new situational demands, challenges and opportunities for both employees and organizations across the globe. Individuals are required to develop personal enablers (both intrapersonal and intradigital attributes) to optimize their psychological fortitude. Research on the intrapersonal resources needed by employees to have the fortitude to adapt to remote working conditions as a result of the digital era, is currently lacking. The igital era brought about the question of how individuals' career adaptability and career wellbeing (as a set of agile adaptable attributes) relate to their perceptions of the value-oriented psychological contract, and whether these intrapersonal resources can contribute to a psychological fortitude model for remote working employees. Method: This study utilized a survey method to investigate the correlations between agile adaptable attributes and the valueoriented psychological contract of global digital-mindset human resource and financial service organizations. Based on further canonical correlations, structural equation modeling was conducted to develop and recommend a psychological fortitude model for remote working adults in the digital age. Results: Close theoretical and empirical associations were found between career adaptability and career wellbeing (as agile adaptable variables) and the perceived value-orientated psychological contract. Discussion: This study proposed a psychological fortitude model (consisting of intrapersonal resources) that organizations and career practitioners can use as a basis to enhance employees' psychological fortitude in the digital age, as well as for further career research.

Career Adaptability as a Strategy to Improve Sustainable Employment: A Proactive Personality Perspective

Reaching full employment and reducing the unemployment rate is one of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) issued by the United Nations to face COVID-19 and the complex global economic situation. Although governments, society, and organizations have made efforts towards SDGs, how employees exert their subjective initiative and enhance their career adaptability is fundamental to solve the employment issue. How to enhance employees’ career adaptability to strengthen their psychological ability to face career changes is the guarantee of sustainable employment. In the light of the main force role and the unique characteristics of the new generation of employees in the workplace, this study aims to explore the relation between a proactive personality and career adaptability. According to the career construction theory, this study constructed a moderated mediation model to test the effect of a proactive personality on career adaptability through career identity and thriving at work, and the moderating role of task interdependence. Surveying 285 new-generation employees in China, this research found that a proactive personality had a significant positive impact on career adaptability, and that career identity and thriving at work mediate the relation. Task interdependence moderated this relation. Our findings extend the research of career construction theory on individual factors and contextual factors, and offer insights into enhancing the sustainability of human resource management and supporting sustainable economic development.

Employee Well-Being During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Adaptability, Work-Family Conflict, and Organizational Response

Well-being has always been a topic of interest for individuals, organizations, and policy-makers. COVID-19 pandemic made it tremendously relevant as employees were forced to work from home due to the successive lockdowns that governments have implemented to curb the spread of the virus. This crisis has raised concerns about employees' well-being due to the implementation of these tight measures. In the present study, we examined the direct and indirect effects of employees' adaptability, work-family conflict, and organizational response on employees' well-being through the mediating role of perceived stress. Data have been collected from 184 employees working in various organizations in Malaysia and analyzed using Smart-PLS Structural Equation Modeling with the bootstrapping procedure. The results indicated that organizational response, work-family conflict, and adaptability directly affect perceived stress and well-being, except for organizational response, which has no direct effect on well-being. Furthermore, it was found that perceived stress mediates the relationship of organizational response and work-family conflict with well-being but not adaptability.

Surviving the digital era: The link between positive coping, workplace friendships and career adaptability

The inception of Industry 4.0 has forced us to rethink the HR function and human capital management. Futurists predict that more than half of the jobs we are doing today will be replaced by smart technology, artificial intelligence and robots. The onset of the Covid-19 epidemic has accelerated the adoption of technology in the workplace. In this changing world of work, the only thing that we can count on is change. Limited research is available on how employees perceive and cope with these technological advancements and changes within the working environment, and specifically how it influences their jobs and careers. Positive coping strengths are essential personal resources which help employees in dealing constructively with the changes in the workplace as well as the complex interaction between the individual and the environment. Advancing research and knowledge in the psychosocial variables that influence the agile coping behaviour of employees has become important to help employees to be able to survive in the digital era. This chapter explores the agile coping dynamics within this future workplace by looking at the relationship between positive coping behaviour, workplace friendships and career adaptability. Based on these findings and recommendations, HR practitioners can utilise the information to assist employees in building agile coping mechanisms to survive and excel in the changes brought by the digital era. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

The benefits of career adaptability on African international students' perception of social support and quality of life in China during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With economic globalization, there has been a rapid increase in the number of sojourners in the workforce and in international education. However, little is known about the impact of career adaptability (a key psychosocial resource for managing career transitions) on international students' adaptation in cross-cultural contexts, particularly their quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on career construct theory, this study examined how career adaptability directly and indirectly enhances international students' quality of life through perceived online and offline social support, and how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their adaptation in cross-cultural context. With a sample of 328 African international students in China, we found that career adaptability and perceived online/ offline social support were positively related to the quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, perceived offline social support, but not perceived online social support, was an adapting response through which career adaptability enhances international students' quality of life in cross-cultural context. The mediating effect of perceived offline social support diminished when the self-rated COVID-19 impact on international students was severe. These findings provide a basis for future psychosocial interventions to enhance international students' adaptation to cross-cultural contexts during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Career planning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Training for strengthening courage and career adaptability and lowering fear levels of COVID-19

Career development starts from childhood and during adolescence professional planning becomes a very important activity that is influenced by internal and external factors: the COVID-19 pandemic can be one of these factors. To overcome the fear that may arise about the current situation and to be able to plan their future considering recent changes in the world of work, adolescents need positive resources such as courage, defined as the tendency to act despite fear, and career adaptability, the ability to adapt to changes in the world of work. With the aim of lowering the levels fear of COVID-19 and raising the levels of courage and career adaptability, a training was developed that involved 63 adolescents (experimental group);another 62 adolescents (control group) were involved in pre- and post-training measurements. The results showed that the experimental group, after training, had lowered the levels of fear of COVID-19 and raised personal resource levels, while the control group showed higher levels of fear of COVID-19 in the second administration. This means that guidance practices can have an impact on the emotional experience of young people in the period of the pandemic and support them in planning their future. © 2021 Sapienza Universita Editrice. All Rights Reserved.

The Comparison of the Adaptation of Public and Private School Teachers to Distance Education during the COVID19 Pandemic

This phenomenological study aims to reveal the adaptation of public and private school teachers in Turkey to distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Purposeful sampling was used to form a study group. The study group consisted of 30 teachers working in Istanbul. A semi-structured interview form was prepared to collect data and interviews were conducted through phone calls or online meetings. The collected data were analyzed by phenomenological analysis. According to the findings, private school teachers were found to try more to acquire alternative skills and competencies and receive online vocational training to adapt to the novel situation and school administrators' performance demands. Participants from public schools did not get enough feedback from their students and parents about the courses they taught and were largely deprived of the support of their colleagues. For them, adaptation to distance education turned into a process carried out with individual efforts. Studies can be conducted in this direction with a view to investigating the relationship between environmental uncertainty, job security and career adaptation based on the findings of this research.

The Influence of Teaching Quality, Social Support, and Career Self-Efficacy on the Career Adaptability Skills: Evidence from a Polytechnic in Indonesia

Introduction. Changes in the industry impact the stable condition of working in a company or industry and it is not something that can be guaranteed again in the future. The proof is that there are many phenomena of job transfers or even layoffs in various business sectors due to COVID-19 pandemic. Many studies have examined the importance of developing career adaptability skills to face the changing needs of the industry. However, studies that discuss the mechanism of forming career adaptability skills involving important antecedent factors such as teaching quality, social support, and career self-efficacy of polytechnic students are still limited. Therefore, this study aims at examining the effect of teaching quality, social support, and career self-efficacy factors on the career adaptability skills of polytechnic students. Materials and Methods. This study involved 265 students at a polytechnic in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The students expressed their perceptions of the quality of their internship learning, social support, and career self-efficacy – data analysis used Structural Equation Modeling by Amos 18 software. Results. This study reveals that teaching quality and social support does not have a direct effect on career adaptability skills. Meanwhile, career self-efficacy has a direct effect on the career adaptability skills of polytechnic students. Other findings, teaching quality and social support have a direct effect on the career self-efficacy of polytechnic students. Finally, career self-efficacy mediates the effect of teaching quality and social support on the career adaptability skills of polytechnic students. Discussion and Conclusion. This study provides important implications for the development of learning in vocational education so that students have a good mastery of career adaptability skills. Vocational education practitioners must design a vocational teaching model that combines vocational teaching, social support, and career self-efficacy to form mastery of career adaptability skills for pop-polytechnic students. In addition, the development of a vocational education curriculum needs to include mastery of career adaptability skills for students in vocational education, be it vocational high schools or polytechnics. In further research, it is necessary to develop a vocational learning model that aims to inculcate career adaptability skills for vocational students. © Mahfud T., Mulyani Y., Setyawati R., Kholifah N., 2022

Moving up without moving forward! Managing career plateau in COVID-19: a dual serial mediations: MRN

Purpose>Although the research stream in the area of career plateau acknowledges its ramifications, yet investigation on how this phenomenon can be reduced is sparse. This study aims to address this gap by illuminating the role of proactive personality (PP) as a factor of minimizing plateau via playful work design (PWD), career adaptability (CA) and perceived work-life balance (PWLB).Design/methodology/approach>A cross-sectional study design was applied and structural equation modelling was used to assess the hypothesized relationships among PP, CA, PWD, perceived work design and career plateau. A total of 338 employees from public and private universities were sampled from February 2020 to July 2020.Findings>The results highlighted that CA mediated the relationship between PP and PWLB, as well as, PWD mediated the association between PP and PWLB. Further, the authors got support for both serial mediation paths i.e. PP, CA, PWLB and career plateau and PP, PWD, PWLB and career plateau.Originality/value>The findings of this study provide much needed ways to overcome career plateau in the academic sector. Moreover, the use of multiple serial paths has enhanced the underlying factors of PP and career plateau nexus.

Career adaptability of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder.

This descriptive phenomenological study examines career adaptability of parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Participants include 30 parents (18 fathers and 12 mothers; 6 of them were couples) ranging in age from 26 to 45 years, selected by a purposive sampling method. The semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers based on the Career Construction Theory was used to collect data after receiving expert verification on the questions. In addition, to triangulate data sources, the Participant Feedback Form filled by the participants on the day following the interview and the Researcher Diary filled by the interviewer during the data collection process were utilized. Colaizzi's seven-step method was followed to analyze the data. Four major domains emerged, highlighting traumas/changes in work-life after ASD, career adaptability, influences of COVID-19 pandemic, and post-interview awareness of this particular sample. Results from the study highlighted looking ahead, being persistent, career decision-making, career-exploration accompanied by some expectations such as more time, income and flexibility, and coping skills build upon the ASD, along with postponement and abandonment of previous career goals, alteration of future career plans, and lack of self-exploration. The results contributed to the theory by providing evidence for career adaptability of parents of children with individual differences, including career adaptability resources and needs. Findings also implied the need for interventions to foster career adaptability skills of parents regarding looking ahead in a positive way, decision-making, self-exploration, and coping with career barriers and difficulties.

Examining Predictors and Outcomes of Decent Work among Korean Workers.

The goal of the present study is to examine the psychology of working framework/theory with a sample of Korean workers. This study examined the structural model of sociocultural factors (i.e., economic constraints and social marginalization), psychological variables (i.e., work volition and career adaptability), and outcomes of decent work based on the psychology of working framework. This study assumed that decent work helps all workers attain a sense of self-respect, dignity, experience freedom and security in the work environment and provides an opportunity for workers to contribute to society. Data were collected from 420 Korean workers, with an average age of 39.13 years (SD = 9.26). We used a hypothesis model that did not assume a direct path from economic constraints and social marginalization to decent work and work volition and career adaptation to job satisfaction and life satisfaction. We also employed an alternative model that assumed all of its paths and compared the models' goodness of fit based on prior studies. Results indicated that alternative models have higher goodness of fit than hypothesis models. All path coefficients were significant except for the direct path from social marginalization to work volition and career adaptability to life satisfaction. Additionally, work volition and career adaptability mediated both the relationship between social marginalization and job satisfaction and between marginalization and life satisfaction. This study enabled the comprehensive examination of the relevance of various social environments and psychological and occupational characteristics that should be considered when exploring job or life satisfaction in the process of career counseling.