Career self-management as resource management through action regulation: Theoretical concepts and practice implications for promoting career management skills

Schläpfer, Dawa; Wilhelm, Francisco; Hirschi, Andreas (2023). Career self-management as resource management through action regulation: Theoretical concepts and practice implications for promoting career management skills (In Press). In: Developing Career Management Skills. NICE Foundation

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Career management skills are important in today’s labor market, which is characterized by increased volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. This chapter aims to provide a better understanding of core career management skills by presenting a framework which sees career self-management as an active process of resource management. Based on this perspective, career self-management consists of building, maintaining, and applying knowledge and skills, psychological (motivational/ attitudinal), and contextual resources through various career self-management behaviors. We moreover suggest how career self-management skills can be enhanced throughout the lifespan by presenting career self-management as an action-regulation process. This process consists of four phases in terms of (1) goal setting and development, (2) mapping the environment for goal-relevant resources and barriers, (3) planning and execution of behaviors, and (4) monitoring and feedback processing. Based on this conceptualization of career self-management, we discuss how practitioners can assist clients in this process across different action regulation phases of career self-management.

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