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Developmental tasks, vocational development and career adaptability

Explore career adaptability and developmental tasks in early adulthood, focusing on successful transitions and vocational development. Gain insights into the evolving global workforce and the importance of adaptability in various industries.

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Developmental tasks, vocational development and career adaptability

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  1. Developmental tasks, vocational development and career adaptability INAP Assuring the Acquisition of Expertise: Apprenticeship in the Modern Economy Beijing, China, 26 – 27 May 2011 Alan Brown and Jenny Bimrose alan.brown@warwick.ac.uk

  2. Developmental Life Stages Early adulthood: • ‘getting started in an occupation’ • tentative in relation to vocational development Much VET assumes: • commitment to a sector • appropriate work will follow

  3. Global context Fluidity & change: • labour markets; • organisation of work; • occupational knowledge base; • organisational work process knowledge

  4. Making their way: Successful life-course transitions Career identity: • Less stable than previously Occupational choice: • more tentative Developmental task: • becoming career adaptable

  5. Career Adaptability ‘The capability of an individual to a series of successful transitions where the labour market, organisation of work and underlying occupational and organisational knowledge bases may all be subject to considerable change’. Reference: Bimrose et al., 2011

  6. Career Adaptability: 5 ‘C’s Psycho-social competency approach: Control: exert influence Curiosity: broaden horizons Confidence: belief in oneself Concern: positive attitudes Commitment: broad focus Reference: Savickas et al., 2009

  7. Research data: patterns of career development • c2000 adults since 2001 • 50 young people (up to age 30) making successful transitions • aerospace; banking; chemicals; ICT; media; sports marketing; health • England, Germany, Norway

  8. Career Decision-making • Ability to review and reflect v. opportunistic approaches • Engagement with learning and development pathways • Upskilling, reskilling or transformational shifts in perspective • Key issues: individual proactivity; relational issues; support

  9. Results: successful transitions 1 • Importance of challenging work for all • Varying patterns of engagement with learning activities • Personal autonomy and meaning of career • Discussions with others about possible lines of career development • Formal learning often valued • Identification with occupation and / or organisation or skill set recontextualisation

  10. Results: successful transitions 2 • Proactive in shaping career and learning pathways but often need support to become more reflective • Anxieties common • Help individuals develop their own career stories: sense of direction • Career options and choices limited by context: easier message learning for personal development: personal networks and meeting new challenges

  11. Results: successful transitions 3 • Opportunity structures key, so adaptability more powerful message than employability • ICT: learning and career patterns often individualised • Engineering: strong linkages between learning and careers • Health: complex linkages: vertical and horizontal progression; qualifications important

  12. Conclusions: successful transitions Career adaptive: • (proactive) personality; • interactions with others; • engagement with challenging opportunities

  13. Conclusions: successful transitions Two groups: • happy / unhappy with current experienced skilled worker status (initial occupational choice) • Focus on career adaptability would be useful

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