Research Handbook on Career Transitions

This timely Research Handbook presents key insights into the messy modern labour market, marked by unprecedented diversity and unpredictability in career paths. Against this backdrop, the Handbook offers a timely and critical exploration of psychological and systemic forces shaping current career transitions.Leading experts examine the hidden mechanics of job changes and their processual nature, presenting them as ongoing journeys shaped by the interplay between individual agency and contextual forces. They provide a crucial understanding of the friction of moving between roles, cultures, and identities in an era of consistent disruption. These chapters challenge the assumption that careers require constant progression. Through research on inertia and flat careers, they emphasise the role of daily interactions and offer a life-course view that captures a wide range of transitions.The Research Handbook of Career Transitions is an essential resource for scholars, students and academics of management, sociology, and social studies, as well as vocational psychology. Organisations and people management will also benefit from the insights into assisting their own employees.