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Future-proofing individuals for sustainable and meaningful careers amid the challenges and demands posed by Industry 4.0 , calls for a critical review of enabling career self-management capabilities. The objective of the chapter is to offer an analytical assessment of the role of psychosocial career capabilities in individuals’ self-directed career management and the relevance of these capabilities in facilitating future-fit careers. The chapter presents a thematic synthesis of the careers literature on future fit career self-management capabilities. The role of these capabilities as psychosocial career resources that facilitate career wellbeing are evaluated from the perspective of the normative social cognitive model of wellbeing and the broaden-and-build theory. The proposition is made that people and their career development remain important in the digital era, and a broadened repertoire of essential psychosocial career self-management capabilities are crucial to help them successfully adapt to rapidly changing technological-driven work contexts. The chapter offers implications for practice and makes recommendations for future research.
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Coetzee, M. (2019). The Value of Future-Fit Psychosocial Career Self-management Capabilities in Sustaining Career Wellbeing. In: Potgieter, I., Ferreira, N., Coetzee, M. (eds) Theory, Research and Dynamics of Career Wellbeing . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28180-9_7
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