From Shock to Shift-A Qualitative Analysis of Accounts in Mid-Career About Changes in the Career Path.

ABSTRACT: Career shocks are the norm, not the exception. Yet, much of research and counseling on career-development holds unrealistic assumptions of a makeable career. Little is understood about the role of shocks on the career path and how the interplay of individual reactions to shocks shapes careers. The purpose of this study is to provide understanding of responses to different attributes of career shocks and career shocks as antecedents to career and job change. A qualitative approach was chosen and data were obtained from 25 semi-structured interviews with a sample of mid-career individuals who had experienced shocks in their work lives. The analysis was 2-fold and aimed at unearthing of individual responses to shocks and the question of the role of shocks on changes in the career path. Firstl

SUBMITTER: Nalis I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7952510 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature