De sleutel tot succesvolle re-integratie: over de cruciale rol van inzetbaarheid bij het vinden van (passend) werk

Abstract

Employability and the pursuit of reemployment success Employability and the pursuit of reemployment success Searching for a job often does not suffice when searching for suitable first time employment and reemployment. This paper discusses how employability and its underlying factors (adaptability, human capital, social capital and career identity) can contribute to an individual’s reemployment success. More specifically, we found that people’s employability contributes to finding reemployment over and above how hard they search. We also showed that adaptability in particular influences people’s job search strategies and their subsequent reemployment potential. Moreover, we expect that compulsory reemployment interventions can – under certain conditions – improve unemployed people’s employability and job search behavior. In this paper, we discuss three sub-studies that tested these expectations. Together these studies provide compelling evidence that employability offers a robust and comprehensive basis for an approach to genuine reemployment success. Employability factors provide people with the resources to engage in and persist with effective job search methods and to find suitable reemployment.