Editorial

Excerpt

Change is an inherent part of the human condition, but when it comes to career development change may not occur always naturally or productively. Also, changing within career development has become more complex as the world of work has become less predictable and challenging. Thus, people use different coping or adaptive resources to manage their careers and adjust to an ever-changing work environment. Vocational guidance and career counseling interventions are designed to assist people in making career choices, to manage professional transitions, but also to increase the resources to do so. Hence, career counseling is also about inducing change. Having to adapt and to change can in some circumstances lead to dramatic social situations but in some other circumstances change can be seen as the ability to take advantage of these circumstances. For this reason, it is important to consider that a change and its outcomes does not only depend on a person but also on his complex social, economical, and political environment. …