CRAFTING YOUR CAREER

JOS AKKERMANS & MARIA TIMS EAWOP MEETING 2015, OSLO

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS PRESENTATION

CAREER COMPETENCIES & JOB CRAFTING Are positively related … but reducing hindering demands shows different results

JOB CRAFTING AS A MEDIATOR … between career competencies and perceived employability … between career competencies and work-home interaction

SPILLOVER BETWEEN DOMAINS Career, Job, and Life

INTRODUCTION: THE CHANGING WORLD OF WORK ÁND CAREERS

PROACTIVE SELF-MANAGEMENT Crafting a job Crafting a career Spillover between domains

Career Competencies

Reflective Competencies

Communicative Competencies

Behavioral Competencies

Reflection on Motivation

Reflection on Qualities

Networking

Self-profiling

Work Exploration

Career Control

CAREER COMPETENCIES (AKKERMANS ET AL., 2013; 2014; 2015)

Job Crafting

Increasing Structural Job Resources

JOB CRAFTING (TIMS ET AL., 2013; 2014; 2015)

Increasing Social Job Resources

Increasing Challenging Job

Demands

Decreasing Hindering Job

Demands

THE CHANGING WORLD OF WORK ÁND CAREERS

METHOD

2-WAVE DATASET Total matched N=183 Approximately 1 month in-between measurement moments

DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS 59.4% female; 35.47 hours per week Young employees

STRATEGY OF ANALYSIS Latent variable SEM with AMOS 21

RESULTS

BASIC FINDINGS Reducing hindering demands did not fit latent JC factor Correlations all in the expected directions

CC JC EPE & IPE Job crafting does mediate between CC and EPE Job crafting does not mediate between CC and IPE

CC JC WHI & WHE Job crafting does mediate between CC & WHI Job crafting does mediate between CC & WHE

RESULTS

DISCUSSION: CRAFTING YOUR CAREER

INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH ON WORK AND CAREERS … which has surprisingly been studied apart for a long time! First study to show a positive link between CC and JC

EXTENSION OF SPILLOVER MODELS Spillover not only between work and life domains Three-way spillover: work, career, ánd life

SMART JOBS Job crafting and career crafting as building

blocks for “smart jobs”

j.akkermans@vu.nl m.tims@vu.nl