“…Career adaptation concerns reflect individuals’ cognitive appraisal of how changes in the external environment (i.e., job, occupation or employment market) affect the current fit between their personal interests, talents, and capabilities and employer demands for employability. Strong career adaptation concerns allude to preoccupations triggered by external demands and involve concerns about upskilling, making a career change, or pursuing different types of career opportunities with the view to restore optimal person-environment congruence, all of which signal a temporary state of loss of autonomy (Coetzee, 2017; Potgieter, Coetzee, & Ferreira, 2018). Preliminary research indicates associations between workers’ career adaptation concerns and their satisfaction with employability-supportive human resources practices such as, for example, training and development and career development opportunities.…”