Career Choice & Change: Job Hunting, Internship Seeking & Discovering Your Career Path: UC San Diego Career Center

This publication is an in-depth reference for researchers, students and practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of career studies. Split into five parts, the volume looks at major areas of research within career studies and reflects on the latest developments in the area of theory, empirical studies and methodology.

Career guidance is fundamental to help adults successfully navigate a constantly evolving labor market through advice and information on job and training opportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of career guidance services, but compared to these services for youth, adults receive relatively little policy attention, and little is known of how often existing services are used. This report describes initiatives in the area of career guidance for adults in OECD countries, drawing lessons on how to strengthen adult career guidance systems in terms of coverage and inclusiveness, provision and service delivery, quality and impact, and governance and funding. The findings build on results of the 2020 Survey of Career Guidance for Adults (SCGA), an online survey of adults’ experience with career guidance.

This book is based on the Life Design paradigm and discusses the efforts made to overcome the matching between individuals and their work contexts. Starting from the evolution of career counselling and vocational guidance in the 20th century and then following the more updated reflections in the paradigm, this book discusses research results from the Larios Laboratory (Padova, Italy) in collaboration with numerous international colleagues and institutions. This book reveals how trajectories can be created from one's own mission, realized with the help of others and newly acquired strengths. It shows how career counselling and vocational designing can help people to build their own future from an inclusive and sustainable perspective, based on social justice, and to help build a better future for all.

This book examines a topic widely regarded as the most pressing in career counselling today, i.e., how to ensure that everyone receives career counselling and that all workers have the opportunity to engage in sustainable, decent work. Furthermore, the book criticizes global society for overlooking the basic needs of many workers, especially the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. An important feature of the book is its emphasis on promoting a creative and innovative approach to career counselling so as to better answer contemporary career-related questions.

This handbook offers a comprehensive review on career guidance, with an emphasis on the applied aspects of guidance together with research methods and perspectives. It features contributions from more than 30 leading authorities in the field from Asia, Africa, America, Australasia and Europe and draws upon a wide range of career guidance paradigms and theoretical perspectives. This handbook covers such subjects as educational and vocational guidance in a social context, theoretical foundations, educational and vocational guidance in practice, specific target groups, testing and assessment, and evaluation.

There has been a marked increase in the number of immigrants worldwide. However, there is still limited research on immigrant experiences at work, especially the challenges and opportunities they face as they navigate and (re-)establish careers in new host countries. The book presents research on the challenges, opportunities, and outcomes immigrants face as they navigate new employment and career landscapes.

As organizations rise to meet the challenges of technological innovation, globalization, changing customer needs and perspectives, demographic shifts, and new work arrangements, their mastery of soft skills will likely be the defining difference between thriving and merely surviving. This book describes the methodology managers can use to help demonstrate the effects of soft skills, so that stakeholders' hearts and minds are shifted toward securing support for future efforts. This book describes how to align training programs with organizational strategy, justify or enhance budgets, and build productive business partnerships. Included are job aids, sample plans, and detailed case studies. The authors guide readers through an easy-to-apply process that includes: business alignment, design evaluation, data collection, isolation of the program effects, cost capture, ROI calculations and results communication.

The talent development field is deep and wide, encompassing the efforts that foster learning and employee development to drive organizational performance, productivity, and results. Major societal forces and business changes require talent development professionals across all industries to adopt new approaches and upgrade skills to keep pace and grow. Capabilities for Talent Development presents the new ATD Capability Model, a powerful framework to guide the profession in what practitioners need to know and do to develop themselves, others, and their organizations.