Reconceptualizing career success

What it means to succeed: Personal perceptions of career success held by senior managers

“…Most of the studies that explore the concept of career success have been conducted across international boundaries (Arthur et al, 2005;Dries et al, 2008;Eby, Butts & Lockwood, 2003;Eddleston et al, 2004;Heslin, 2003Heslin, , 2005Gunz & Heslin, 2005;McDonald & Hite, 2008;Ng et al, 2005). South African studies that explore the concept of career success are however rather limited, especially in terms of capturing subjective career success of senior managers who are generally perceived to have successful careers based on their income, status and occupational level (Ng et al, 2005).…”

Das Konstrukt des Berufserfolgs: Messmethoden und ein empirisches Beispiel

“…Career success has long been of interest not only to individuals engaged in a career, but also to career researchers and to practitioners in the field (Gunz and Heslin 2005;Hughes 1937;Parsons 1909;Super 1990). Career researchers want to analyze the determinants of more or less successful careers, practitioners want to know how to advise people in their careers; and employees want to be successful because career success is one main goal in many people's lives and career success can be a powerful motivator for further positive outcomes like performance, well-being, or further success.…”

Psychological career resources as predictors of working adults’ career anchors: An exploratory study

“…Based on Adler's (1956) viewpoints on the concept of consciousness, Coetzee (2007) describes career consciousness as people's conscious, career-related cognitions (that is, perceptions, awareness and self-evaluations) of their career preferences, values, skills, attitudes and behaviours that are understood and regarded by people as being helpful in realising their goals and achieving career success. In this regard, individuals' repertoires of psychological career resources consist of those career preferences, career values, attitudes and competencies that go beyond work-related technical skills (Coetzee, 2008;Gunz & Heslin, 2005). Psychological career resources have been found to be linked to people's experiences of life satisfaction and job/career satisfaction, perceptions of general employability and their ability to deal resourcefully with life and career challenges (Coetzee & Bergh, 2008;Esterhuizen & Coetzee, 2008;Fugate et al, 2004;Parker, 2008).…”