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| Author(s): |
Ribeiro, Marcelo Afonso
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Psicol, BR-05508030 Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR; v. 88, p. 19-27, JUN 2015. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 4 |
| Abstract | |
By means of a qualitative approach, this study sought to understand the patterns of career construction in contemporary times through content analysis of the narratives generated by a set of 40 urban workers in sao Paulo (Brazil), intentionally selected. Five narrative patterns of career construction were found and related to the existing concepts (organizational career, protean and boundaryless career, professional career, transitional career, and hybrid careers), which were respectively described by their core feature (nostalgia, possibility, enclosure, instrumentality, and hybrid). The main results showed that one quarter of participants sought career stability, continuity, and linearity (Nostalgia), one quarter sought flexibility and discontinuity (Possibility), about 1/7 sought a career based on the profession/occupation (Enclosure), about one-third constructed hybrid career narratives, and there was a frequent emergence of crises (Instrumentality). The main contribution of this study was confirming the hybrid nature of contemporary career constructions produced in a constant tension between stability and flexibility, as well as between permanence and change; nevertheless, based on collective standards. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/24735-0 - Internacionalization of scientific production at the Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo: support to publication in peer reviewed and high impact journals |
| Grantee: | Gerson Aparecido Yukio Tomanari |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Grants - Technical Reserve for Institutional Research Infrastructure |