It's All About CareerSKILLS: Effectiveness of a Career Development Intervention for Young Employees

Human Resource Management

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 533-551

  Akkermans, Jos ^a   Brenninkmeijer, Veerle ^b   Schaufeli, Wilmar B ^b,c,d   Blonk, Roland W B ^b,e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Career competencies; Career development; Perceived employability; Quasi randomized control trial; Work engagement; Young employees

Indexed keywords

CAREER; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYABILITY; EMPLOYEE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTIVATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CARE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; WELLBEING;

EID: 84943532733     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21633     Document Type: Article

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