Principal speaker
Dr Teresa Marchant
Abstract: Many people are familiar with the rhetoric of ‘new’ careers including the boundaryless and protean concepts. Responding to rapid organisation change in the 1990s new careers such as boundaryless and protean were posited to represent new patterns for careers. The upward linear organisation career is dead! People are changing jobs more often. Each individual must take charge of their own career. Employees now don’t so much expect the organisation to take care of their careers for them or to provide a job for life. For nearly two decades, research focussed unquestioningly on the boundaryless career but recently this and other contemporary concepts have been critiqued. Is there evidence for boundaryless careers? Do individuals have the attributes and agency to shape their own careers? Are there really no limits or boundaries? We explore these issues through proposing a set of dimensions that shape external career contexts and may place limits on ‘boundaryless’. We also draw on data from a multi-method research project with final year undergraduates and recent graduates to explore their very early career transitions. Participants include final year students in work integrated learning, employed undergraduates who are completing their degree part time and graduates who have recently commenced professional employment.
Speakers: Teresa Marchant, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources, Griffith Business School, Griffith University. She specialises in training and development and conducts research in gender, learning and career development.
Jan Ferguson is now a PhD candidate having had a career as a principal lecturer in management and HR in UK, Bahrain, New Zealand and Australia. Jan is a Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) UK and a Certified Member of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI). Jan specialises in learning and development and her research interests include graduates’ transition to employment and the use and value of graduate attributes in managing their careers
Lynlea Small, MBA, is the Coordinator, Work Integrated Learning Programs at Griffith Business School. Currently enrolled into the GBS Honours Program as a pathway to the PhD, Lynlea’s research focus is employability, and the impact that project-based internships have on the employability and future career direction of final year business students.
Kate Shacklock, PhD is an Associate Professor and the Discipline Leader (HRM and ER) at the Griffith Business School's Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources, Griffith University. Her research interests include the ageing workforce, inter-generational issues and human resource management generally. She had over 20 years' experience in human resource management prior to joining academia.
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