“…While a planned career transition creates opportunities to assess skills and prepare for the transition, the impetus for a career transition can also be unplanned due to circumstances like corporate downsizing (Unisen & Polat, 2016), creating a need for the actor to unexpectedly craft her next career move. For a career transition that is unplanned or unexpected, her mental, physical, and emotional health can be strained as she learns to embrace and cope with the change (Greer, 2017) and deal with feelings of negativity, uncertainty, anxiety, helplessness, and even low self-esteem (Kenttä et al, 2016; Unisen & Polat, 2016; Vilanova & Puig, 2016). Therefore, during the career preparation phase, she requires self-efficacy, resilience, and motivation to seek the knowledge and skills needed to prepare herself for the career transition and hunt for new job opportunities.…”