Developing career resilience and adaptability

By S. Seibert, Maria L. Kraimer, Peter A. Heslin. 2016

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Developing a clear set of career goals and plans can be beneficial at almost any stage of your career, though careers rarely unfold as intended or imagined. No matter how much people analyze their aspirations and opportunities in the service of planning their career, unexpected developments often bring unforeseen changes. Such developments can be driven by processes within you, such as changing personal aspirations and growth needs, or by external events that you did not plan or expect, such as the fortuitous opportunity that seems to drop from the sky or shocks that derail progress along an intended career pathway. It’s wise to expect the unexpected to occur at some point in your career. This is why it is important to build resilience and adaptability into your career — before the unforeseen happens. Resilience is the capacity to bounce back from disruptions. In terms of careers, resilience is the capacity to continue making progress toward your current career goals with the resources and strategies you have already developed; to Keep Calm and Carry On, as it were. But sometimes events require you to change. Adaptability involves reformulating your goals and/or strategies to adapt to new work and career realities. Such changes ideally leave you less vulnerable to the previous types of shocks and more aligned with your new work environment. The focus of this article is on how you can build your capacity to anticipate and respond to shocks so that you are both more resilient in the face of unexpected events and more able to make changes to your

Subfields: Clinical Psychology

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