In Search of Responsible Career Guidance: Career Capital and Personal Purpose in Restless Times

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  • Author(s): Franz Wohlgezogen (ORCID Franz Wohlgezogen (ORCID 0000-0003-1660-512X); Valeria S. Cotronei-Baird
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Journal of Management Education. 2024 48(2):180-200.
  • Publication Date:
    2024
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Evaluative
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: https://sagepub.com
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      21
    • Education Level:
      Higher Education
      Postsecondary Education
    • Subject Terms:
      Career Guidance; Administrator Education; Business Education Teachers; Job Skills; Resilience (Psychology); Career Readiness; Employment Potential; Foreign Countries; College Faculty; School Business Relationship; Cooperative Education; Social Capital; Human Capital; Goal Orientation; Self Concept; Quality of Life; World Views; Work Attitudes
    • Subject Terms:
      Australia
    • Accession Number:
      10.1177/10525629231218941
    • ISSN:
      1052-5629
      1552-6658
    • Abstract:
      Management educators have developed a wide variety of approaches to ensure students develop job-ready skills, resilience, and other forms of career capital to gain and retain employment in an ever-changing, competitive job market. Yet, concerns about the employability agenda's consequences for students' self-concept and wellbeing have gained urgency amid a crisis of confidence in capitalism. Humanistic approaches to management education map an alternative path, starting from students' unique values, voices, and experiences, and leading to the pursuit of a personal purpose. In this essay, we explore the tensions and potential synergies of the career capital and personal purpose approaches to career preparation and support. Building on our experiences at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Business and Economics, we discuss how integrative learning experiences can combine these two approaches to (1) encourage students to recognize the mutual influence of career capital and personal purpose; and (2) provide rich opportunities for external stakeholder involvement to contribute to students' career capital and personal purpose development efforts. We believe that our proposals for embracing both career capital and personal purpose considerations can help management educators recalibrate their efforts to help students develop personally meaningful and sustainable careers.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2024
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1416702