Career Development International: Volume 21 Issue 3

Competencies for entrepreneurship as a career option in a challenging employment environment

María Carmen Pérez-López, María José González-López, Lázaro Rodríguez-Ariza

Entrepreneurship is an increasing relevant career option in the present labour market, which is complex and ever less rigidly structured. In this context, individuals need to…

Gender discrimination and job characteristics

Lonneke Dubbelt, Sonja Rispens, Evangelia Demerouti

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between gender discrimination and the perceived job demands and job resources of women and men. This is important because…

On the reciprocal relationship between individual job insecurity and job insecurity climate

Lena Låstad, Tinne Vander Elst, Hans De Witte

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between individual job insecurity and job insecurity climate over time.

Personality and occupational specialty: An examination of medical specialties using Holland’s RIASEC model

Stephen A Woods, Fiona C Patterson, Bart Wille, Anna Koczwara

The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the role of personality in occupational specialty choice, to better understand how and in what ways personality traits might influence…

The toll of perceived injustice on job search self-efficacy and behavior

Simon Taggar, Lisa K. J. Kuron

Individuals normally make fairness judgements when experiencing negative outcomes on an important task, such as finding employment. Fairness is an affect-laden subjective…

The impacts of family-work conflict and social comparison standards on Chinese women faculties’ career expectation and success, moderating by self-efficacy

Taejun Cho, Kiung Ryu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships among self-efficacy, family-work conflict, social comparison standards, career expectation (CE), and career success…