Question

Reflect on the four attitudes for coping with career transitions: concern, curiosity, confidence, and control. For each attitude, provide examples of how you are adaptable and are responsible for constructing your own career.
Write your response, including your answers to the above questions, in a 300-550 word

Answer 1

• To survive and thrive in the current volatile labour markets across the world, individuals need to develop career adapt-ability competencies.Career adapt-ability is ‘the capability of an individual to make a series of successful transitions where the labour market, organisation of work and underlying occupational and organisational knowledge bases may all be subject to considerable change.’
• Career adapt-ability came into use to define the ability to make career choices and adapt to vocational tasks. The four career adapt-abilities are: concern, control, curiosity and confidence.
• Having concern for my career will leade to high interest levl build one, I will already have a Plan A for my future. It is always a good strategy to have a Plan B up your sleeve, as even if you know what you want to do next, things may change in the future. I will develop an action plan for my future and keep checking it from time to time to make sure everything is in place.
• Controling what career I want to build for myself will lead to me having a positive approach to my future and I may have given thought to what I want from my future working life. For that I would need some expert advise,which I can take from a vocational counselor or career coach,to get more clarity my field of profession and to how to grow in it.Harnessing the knowledge of others around you is also a positive step. For example asking others about the recruitment and selection processes that they experienced will help me prepare for my interview and learn from the mistakes others have done to make my mark and get the job.
• Having curiosity about my field,which is industrial psychology,I would be doing all he fact searching about it.To make my decisions about my future career,I would dig deeply into information about my chosen occupation or sector of work – what are the upcoming challenges? What might change in the foreseeable future? Which employers offer the best training or pay? Where do the best long-term promotion prospects lie? Will there be opportunities to travel overseas?Reflect on all the information to make the final decision of starting my job.
• Finally,having confidence in yourself and your decisions is important.After preparing everything and gathering all the information,confidence and clarity will develop.Now I should make sure I am doing the right things.Resilience, tenacity and honesty with yourself are your best allies in making the transition into further training or employment and remember, it’s a strength to ask for help sometimes.