Career Development International: Volume 9 Issue 3

Researching work identities in a European context

Simone Kirpal

The contributions in this CDI special issue present research findings that have been generated in the course of the research project, Vocational Identity, Flexibility and Mobility…

Conflicting vocational identities and careers in the sector of tourism

Fernando Marhuenda, Ignacio Martínez, Almudena Navas

This article investigates the formation of vocational identities of workers in the sector of tourism in the Czech Republic, Greece and Spain. Major challenges and conflicts shape…

Engineering identities

Alan Brown

Employers attempt to shape employees' work identities through the organisation of work. However, they are partly constrained by employee expectations related to education and…

Work identities of nurses: Between caring and efficiency demands

Simone Kirpal

This paper reports on a comparative qualitative study across four European countries which explored the formation of work identity amongst nurses and other professionals in the…

Vocational identities in change in the telecommunications sector

M'Hamed Dif

During the last decade the telecommunications sector has undergone an accelerated structural change in work organisation, qualification profiles and the mode of socialisation at…

Identification‐flexibility dilemma of IT specialists

Krista Loogma, Meril Ümarik, Raivo Vilu

Information technology (IT) is a new service sector characterised by an intensive dynamic that puts high demands of learning, flexibility and mobility on IT specialists. This…

Advancing women's careers