ABSTRACT
What are the individual career outcomes that we, as career scholars and practitioners, should be focusing on in our research and career counseling or management practice? Traditionally, the focus has been on career success – the positive material and psychological outcomes resulting from a person’s work-related activities and experiences (Seibert, 2006: 148). Research adopting career success as its main outcome of interest has typically studied how specific career strategies (e.g., frequent organizational moves, networking) can help people achieve success; how personal characteristics (e.g., personality traits, gender, race) relate to career success; and how planned or unplanned life events (e.g., becoming a parent) might hinder the road to success (Shockley et al., 2016).
