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Employability and Career Success: The Need for Comprehensive Definitions of Career Success

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Deborah A. Olson  and
Kenneth S. Shultz
Deborah A. Olson*
Affiliation:
University of La Verne
Kenneth S. Shultz
Affiliation:
California State University, San Bernardino
*
E-mail: dolson2@laverne.edu, Address: Department of Management and Leadership, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA 91750
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In their focal article, Hogan, Chamorro-Premuzic, and Kaiser (2013) define career success objectively “in terms of occupational prestige and financial attainment.” However, it is clear from the careers literature that workers in early, mid, and late career are likely to define both subjective and objective career success differently (Wang, Olson, & Shultz, 2013). Therefore, we recommend an expanded definition of career success that includes both subjective and objective measures when exploring the relationship between employability and career success across individuals' careers.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 17 - 20
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2013 

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