Abstract
Career guidance needs new perspectives, considering the challenges that characterize our future, and it cannot exist without solidarity, inclusion, and attention to environmental challenges. It should also positively influence stakeholders to invest in the values of the 2030 Agenda recently proposed by the United Nations, and its encouragement to think about some of the emergencies that new generations will have to face in the future. Based on these premises, we designed and validated a sustainable career guidance intervention for high school students. The participants (N = 75) were assigned to an experimental or a control group. All of the participants answered questions pre- and post-intervention to measure career adaptability, training, future investment, and wishes about the feature. The students from the sustainable career intervention group increased their post-intervention scores on control, curiosity, confidence, training, and future investment. They also indicated future wishes that take into more account attention to relationships and social challenges.
Highlights
The idea of the present and the near future involves high levels of ambiguity, change, and complexity
We have examined the propensity to identify desires for the future that take into account personal goals and the social challenges encountered today, with a focus on sustainable and equal development and career adaptability, which are essential to the design and management of a professional future [28], and investmentment in the future and education [41]
In order to realize this ambition, a new approach to career intervention which takes this into account is needed
Summary
The idea of the present and the near future involves high levels of ambiguity, change, and complexity. It is easy to believe that our towns, cities, and regions will be more and more characterized by super-diversity. This term refers to a dynamic interaction of variables among a growing number of individuals who present multiple origins, who are transnationally related, socio-economically differentiated, and legally layered [7]. These individuals contribute to the development of complicated, unpredictable events [8]. All of this is compounded by the technologies contributing to the worsening of working conditions for many people, increased wage disparities, the polarization of richness, and occupations [9]
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