CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Abozeid, Omar F. |
|---|---|
| Title | Career Knowledgeability: Agency-structure interplay in career self-management |
| Summary | In response to the challenging transition-to-employment and career ambiguity of higher education graduates from occupationally transversal disciplines (OTD-graduates), this exploratory study delves into the complex interplay of agency and structure within the career self-management process of OTD-graduates. It offers a profound and nuanced understanding of the introduced Career Knowledgeability concept and its role in OTD-graduates’ career self-management. The study critically examines the neoliberal policy paradigm's emphasis on individual agency in career self-management as manifested in the graduate employability narrative. Moreover, it goes beyond the notion of graduate employability towards a more holistic understanding of agency-structure interplay in OTD-graduates’ career self-management. The study employed a modified version of the analytic induction approach to analyze the career stories of non-European OTD-graduates navigating European labor markets. The analysis of the study participants’ career stories resulted in not only answering the study questions and confirming, and further refining, the study hypotheses, but has also led to the emergence of a broader understanding of the career self-management dynamics. The key contribution of this study is the introduction of the career knowledgeability conceptual framework. The framework/model illustrated the nature and role of career knowledgeability within the context of OTD-graduates’ career self-management. The study findings suggest that enhancing the career knowledgeability of OTD-graduates can improve their employment outcomes and career satisfaction. It advocates for policy interventions that address existing structural constraints and aims at enhancing the agentic capacities of OTD-graduates. Moreover, it calls for the integration of the career knowledgeability concept into the career development services offered by higher education institutions. |
| Supervisor | Matei, Liviu |
| Department | Political Science PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/abozeid_omar.pdf |
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