Coping with Career Changes

Contemporary careers come with a lot of change. Sometimes we seek out the change ourselves when, for example, we pursue promotion and are successful. Sometimes change happens to us - we're made redundant or the organisation shifts direction and is no longer a good fit.

Changes, shifts, and transitions in a career are challenging. So how do we cope? How do we remain that captain of our ship even in stormy weather?

In this episode I'll take you through three areas of focus:

1. Career mapping
2. Network crafting
3. Resilience building

Cited work in this episode include:

- Protean Careers at Work: Self-Direction and Values Orientation in Psychological Success (Hall, Yip & Doiron, 2018)

- Online identities in and around organizations: A critical exploration and way forward (Barros, Alcadipani, Coupland & Brown, 2022)

- Crafting networks: A self-training intervention (Wang, Demerouti, Rispens & van Gool, 2024)

- Enhancing job seeker self-efficacy, use, and benefits: Effects of an online training program (Wanberg, Van Hooft, Liu & Csillag, 2020)

- Cultivate Self-Efficacy for Personal and Organizational Effectiveness (Bandura, in "Principles of Organizational Behavior: The Handbook of Evidence‐Based Management 3rd Ed., 2023)

- Building Relationships and Improving Opportunities (BRIO) online course- Goal setting frameworks

- Developing Career Resilience Open Uni course

Good luck, Professionals!