Career Development International: Volume 20 Issue 4

Unintended consequences of a digital presence: Employment-related implications for job seekers

Jennifer A. Harrison, Marie-Hélène Budworth

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate how job seekers’ digital profile influences employment-related outcomes, namely recommendations on hiring and salary.

Facilitators and barriers to the assimilation of function-specific executives into senior management roles

Roger Bennett

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that might contribute to the ease with which marketing executives in UK charities who have been promoted to senior general…

Informal learning of temporary agency workers in low-skill jobs: The role of self-profiling, career control, and job challenge

Paul Preenen, Sarike Verbiest, Annelies Van Vianen, Ellen Van Wijk

The purpose of this paper is to develop and investigate the idea that self-profiling and career control by temporary agency workers (TAWs) in low-skill jobs are positively related…

Resilience in the modern career

Sean T. Lyons, Linda Schweitzer, Eddy S.W. Ng

Career resilience (CR) is an increasingly important, but under-researched aspect of modern careers. The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of CR on the…

Psychosocial factors in retirement intentions and adjustment: a multi-sample study

Gabriela Topa, Carlos-María Alcover

Retirement adjustment is the process by which aged workers become accustomed to the changed facts of life in the transition from work to retirement and develop psychological…

Antecedents of perceived overqualification: a three-wave study

Laura Guerrero, John-Paul Hatala

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of job search on perceived overqualification by applying the theory of planned behavior and including financial need and…

Trajectory classes of job performance: The role of self-efficacy and organizational tenure

Mariella Miraglia, Guido Alessandri, Laura Borgogni

Previous literature has recognized the variability of job performance, calling attention to the inter-individual differences in performance change. Building on Murphy’s (1989…