Employability and Career Success in Times of COVID-19
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 20882
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human resource management; industrial and organizational psychology; management; self-efficacy; career management; career development; career counseling; work psychology; industrial psychology; motivational psychology
Interests: work psychology; industrial psychology; human resource management; human resource development; performance management; safety; questionnaire; measurement; training and development; social psychology
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Dear Colleagues,
Since the late 1990s, research has emphasized the need for individuals to be flexible, adaptable, and more autonomous in managing their careers because the rapid evolution and increased complexity of business and labor markets have made work experiences less stable, predictable, and bound to organizational hierarchies. Nowadays, the COVID-19 outbreak and the precautionary lockdown have caused a dramatic and unprecedented social crisis and economic recession (International Monetary Fund, 2020). It is to be expected that the crisis will impact on career development (International Labour Organisation, 2020).In a scenario in which job security is rarer, employability, as “one’s ability to identify and realise career opportunities” (Fugate, Kinicki, and Ashforth, 2004, p. 23), has become more and more important for maintaining and enhancing the individual’s attractiveness in the labour market (i.e. McArdle, Waters, Briscoe and Hall, 2007; Rothwell, Jewell and Hardie, 2009). Although employability is defined as an important factor for career success, quite surprisingly there is a lack of literature on the relationship between employability and career success. On the one hand, there is some evidence that employability may affect career success (i.e., De Vos, De Hauw and Van der Heijden, 2011; Rothwell and Arnold, 2007; Van der Heijden, de Lange, Demerouti and Van der Heijde, 2009). On the other hand, the meaning of career success is rapidly changing. In addition to the objective perspective, which uses indicators such as organizational position or attained promotions to measure the positive work-related outcomes resultant of one’s work experiences, more and more frequently, research on career success has assumed the subjective perspective, which focuses on workers’ evaluations of personal accomplishments and prospects. Moreover, the recent conceptual model of sustainable careers (De Vos, Van der Heijden, and Akkermans, 2020) suggests taking into account the interconnection between career success, employability, and health, given that happiness, performance, and health are considered three groups of indicators of a sustainable career. In view of this, this Special Issue invites the submission of high-quality conceptual and empirical papers to systematically and comprehensively advance the connections between employability and career success. Possible questions to be addressed by papers in the Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- How are employability and career success currently being conceptualised and measured?
- How does COVID-19 impact the perception of employability and career success?
- What is the relationship between employability and career success?
- How are employability and career success related to career stages and individual differences?
Prof. Dr.Rita Chiesa
Prof. Dr.Marco Giovanni Mariani
Prof. Dr. Judith Volmer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Employability
- Career success
- New careers
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Sustainable career
