Psycho-Social Career Meta-Capacities: Dynamics of Contemporary Career Development

Book Overview

This book introduces a coherent perspective on the self-regulatory career meta-capacities that individuals, as career agents, need to successfully manage their career development in a boundaryless occupational world. Enriched by empirical data and case studies by subject specialists in the fields, it serves as a cutting-edge benchmark for specialists, professionals and post-graduate students in the careers field to study. This book allows an in-depth view of the most recent research trends on the critical psycho-social constructs influencing the adaptation, adaptivity, adaptability and employability of individuals in a turbulent, uncertain and chaotic work world. In addition, it offers the practising professional new perspectives of career constructs and measures to consider in career counseling and guidance for the contemporary career.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319006444
• ISBN13: 9783319006444
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"