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Protean Careers at Work: Self-Direction and Values Orientation in Psychological Success
April 2018

How do self-direction and personal values influence career outcomes? Such questions have been central in research on the protean career

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The Chaos Theory of Careers
October 2003

The Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC; Pryor & Bright, 2011) construes both individuals and the contexts in which they develop their careers in terms of complex dynamical systems.

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How accurate are interest inventories? A quantitative review of career choice hit rates
September 2020

Vocational interests have a rich history throughout the last century of psychological research, playing an influential role in fields such as personality, development, education, counseling, and organizational psychology.

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100 years of applied psychology research on individual careers: From career management to retirement
March 2017

This article surveys 100 years of research on career management and retirement, with a primary focus on work published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

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Personality and career success
July 2007

The relationship between personality and career success has provoked a great deal of speculation.

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Do I want this job? Integrating research across psychological subfields to examine how individuals think about perceived values during career decision making.
2024

Much research across different psychological traditions emphasizes the role of value perceptions in career decision making, but different psychological subfields rarely incorporate insights from other subfields in discussing this topic.

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