Abstract
Contemporary career guidance and counselling approaches with particular interest to subjects which concern the development of career management skills since these skills are considered important means for the active exploration of the vocational course and the development of a career. The development of skills related to career adaptability and self-efficacy in the planning of a career could help students who are finishing Upper-secondary School (Lykeio) to approach creatively their career aims, and to deal effectively with the transitions or unexpected events by applying appropriate actions. The present study employed the survey research strategy in order to examine the level of the career adaptability and self-efficacy in the planning of a career with male and female students (N = 240) of Upper-secondary Schools (General Lykeia - GEL) and Vocational Upper-secondary Schools (Vocational Lykeia - EPAL) in Greece. Specifically, it examined the level of skills which students declare that they possess regarding the type of school, their gender and the educational level of the parents. The finding that the levels of career adaptability differentiated not only as regards the gender of the students but also the studies of the father and the mother has presented particular interest while the students who study at the General Lykeia were found to have higher scores in the areas: “career interest” and “curiosity” in the Career Adapt-abilities Scale (CAAS) compared with students who study at the Vocational Lykeia (EPAL). Finally, the motif of the scores in the B’ Class of Lykeio showed that the students of EPAL excelled in all the skills apart from the factor “career interest” while correspondingly in the C’ class of Lykeio students of the General Lykeio (GEL) excelled in all skill categories. Keywords: upper-secondary school students, self-efficacy, career adaptability, career management, Perceived Self-Efficacy in Career Planning, Career Adapt-Abilities Scale.
Highlights
In a world of employment that suffers enormous changes within the given environment of a very deep crisis, the development of skills for the life-long management of a career is thought to be a very important resource of every human being’s personal and professional life
In the present research we examined the relationship between the dimensions of the previous scales that refer to specific crucial skills of career development as well as to what degree the scores are differentiated in the dimensions of these scales under the influence of demographic variables
The relationship between the career adaptability and the self-efficacy in career planning was found to be positive, a finding that shows particular importance, since it shows that the readiness of the individual to confront the unexpected adjustments and transitions of his/her career course is related with the feeling of his/her own efficacy for career issues
Summary
In a world of employment that suffers enormous changes within the given environment of a very deep crisis, the development of skills for the life-long management of a career is thought to be a very important resource of every human being’s personal and professional life. It concerns those skills which help the individual of every age to collect, analyse, compose and organise information for himself, education and professions, as well as skills in order to take decisions, to effect transfers and to be flexible and adaptable (European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network, 2012). The readiness of the individuals to continuously explore themselves and the environment in order to face up or to accept the change of the working roles in the career and to handle with success all the unexpected transitions in the working area and in the labour market (Savickas, 2013)
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