"The Routledge Companion to Career Studies is an in-depth reference for researchers, students and practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of career studies. Split into five parts, with each part opening with a contextualising introduction, the volume looks at...

Career success has hitherto been conceptualized in ways that make its operationalization difficult to distinguish from other properties of the person, such as job satisfaction or remuneration. We argue that this is because these conventional operationalizations neglect the 'career' dimension of...

The promise of careers as a focal point for better understanding the relationship between individuals, institutions and society has not yet been fulfilled. A major reason for this is the lack of a joint framework and language that facilitate a mutual exchange of ideas between career studies and...