726: Navigating Career Transitions: Early Development, Alternative Paths, and Late-Career Perspective (17004)

Organizer(s)

• GW

  Gloria Willhardt

  Justus-Liebig-U. Giessen, Germany

Presenter(s)

• SM

  Soodabeh Mansoori

  York U., Toronto, Canada

Participant(s)

• JZ

  Jelena Zikic

  York U., Canada

Presenter(s)

• AH

  America Harris

  U. of Hohenheim, Germany

Participant(s)

• MD

  Meghan Davenport

  U. of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
• UF

  Ulrike Fasbender

  U. of Hohenheim, Germany

Discussant(s)

• AD

  Ans De Vos

  U. of Antwerp/ Antwerp Management School, Belgium

Organizer(s)

• KW

  Katja Wehrle

  Justus-Liebig U. Giessen, Germany
• MK

  Mari Kira

  U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States

Presenter(s)

• GW

  Gloria Willhardt

  Justus-Liebig-U. Giessen, Germany

Participant(s)

• UK

  Ute-Christine Klehe

  Justus-Liebig U. Giessen, Germany
• MS

  Miriam Schäfer

  Justus-Liebig-U. Giessen

Presenter(s)

• JN

  Jordan Nye

  U. of Michigan, Ross School of Business, United States
• EJ

  Elise Jones

  US Coast Guard Academy, United States

Participant(s)

• CH

  Christina Hymer

  U. of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States

While successful career transitions are vital for overall career quality, those transitions are complex and can be challenging. Occurring at different career and life stages, workers need to repeatedly maneuver transitions throughout their career journeys, ranging from school to work until retirement. Amidst the evolving modern career landscape, also our understanding of careers is shifting, and workers progressively seek to, e.g., experience meaningfulness and realize work flexibility. While research provides valuable insights into how people successfully manage diverse career transitions, we lack knowledge on what influences workers’ career choices and their experiences when transitioning across key career stages. This symposium integrates research on key career stages, ranging from school-to-work transitions, to people moving in between their work and leaving traditional paths of employment to seek fulfillment in alternative careers, to the late career stage and retirement. By this, we explore how workers experience and thus choose to develop their careers, how they make career choices to better align their careers with their identities and with what is important to them, and how they navigate new, alternative, and difficult career transitions. We advance knowledge on career transitions and offer a comprehensive view of how workers maneuver and experience their career journeys.

Presentations:

• 11:30 – 13:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  726: Setting Sails for your Harbor: Exiting NEET Status through Self-Efficacy and Career Decidedness? (17004)
  

  Author: Gloria Willhardt – Justus-Liebig-U. Giessen

  Author: Ute-Christine Klehe – Justus-Liebig U. Giessen

  Author: Miriam Schäfer – Justus-Liebig-U. Giessen
• 11:30 – 13:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  726: ‘Work Moves’ in the New World of Work: Examining the Role of Self-Narratives and Significant Others (17004)
  

  Author: Jordan Nye – U. of Michigan, Ross School of Business
• 11:30 – 13:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  726: Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Is Meaningfulness Sought or Discovered in Career Change? (17004)
  

  Author: Elise B. Jones – US Coast Guard Academy

  Author: Christina Hymer – U. of Tennessee, Knoxville
• 11:30 – 13:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  726: Alternative Career Pathways of Skilled Migrants: Looking for New Meanings amid Starting Again (17004)
  

  Author: Soodabeh Mansoori – York U., Toronto

  Author: Jelena Zikic – York U.
• 11:30 – 13:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  726: Utilizing Uncertainty Regulation as a Late Career Strategy (17004)
  

  Author: America Harris – U. of Hohenheim

  Author: Meghan Davenport – U. of North Carolina at Charlotte

  Author: Ulrike Fasbender – U. of Hohenheim