New Paper: Tales of the Unexpected - Integrating Career Shocks in the Contemporary Careers Literature

Our conceptual paper about the role of career shocks in contemporary career development is out now, published open access in the SA Journal of Industrial Psychology.

April 19, 2018

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Career Shocks in Career Development International

Call for papers: Special issue in Career Development International about career shocks

April 3, 2018

Academy of Management 2018: Here I Come!

Academy of Management just officially sent the decisions about submitted papers and symposiums. It gave us a lot of good news: 3 accepted symposiums and 2 accepted PDW sessions. Of the symposiums, two have been accepted as showcase symposium, which makes us even more proud and happy. Chicago: here we come!

March 28, 2018

Research Visit @ King's College London

Last week, I was at King's College London for a 1-week research visit at their KCL Business School.

February 19, 2018

BNR Newsradio on Proactive Work Behavior

On Tuesday January 30th 2018 I was part of the radio show "Werkverkenners" (work explorers) of BNR Newsradio, where we talked about proactive work behavior.

January 30, 2018

Joining the JVB Editorial Board

Starting 2018, I have officially joined the editorial board of Journal of Vocational Behavior.

January 16, 2018

BNR Newsradio on Challenges during Early Careers

On Tuesday November 14th 2017 I was part of the radio programme "Werkzoekers" (work seekers) of BNR Business Radio. The discussion focused on common pitfalls that young individual may face during their early careers. The broadcast can be listed to (in Dutch) HERE.

November 18, 2017

Media Attention for Career LEAP Program

On Thursday November 9th 2017, we had the official launch of the second part of the Career LEAP program. I am working on this project together with Carmel O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and Jennifer Symonds (University College Dublin, Ireland), and the main aim is to help prepare young unemployed (NEET) individuals for a future job and career.

November 18, 2017

Horizon 2020 ITN Grant (€4 million) about Global Careers

A team of career scholars from the VU School of Business and Economics - Prof. Dr. Svetlana Khapova, Niki Konijn, Dr. Jos Akkermans, Dr. Evgenia Lysova - together with an international consortium of leading European universities and business partners, received a 4 million EUR Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Network (ITN) grant for an international research project on “Global mobility of employees” (GLOMO).

November 2, 2017

PhD Defense Inge de Clippeleer

On Wednesday October 25th 2017, Inge de Clippeleer defende her PhD thesis entitled: "Being in the driver's seat of your job: Investigating determinants, mechanisms and outcomes of job crafting and team crafting", at Ghent University, Belgium. I was part of her supervisory committee and also of the jury. Inge first presented the highlights of her PhD thesis in very engaging fashion and in understandable terms for the audience. Then, she did a fantastic job answering the questions from the jury members. A well deserved success and now officially "Dr. Inge"!

October 27, 2017

Lecture "Universiteit van Nederland" about Finding Your First Job

My lecture at the Universiteit van Nederland is now online! During this lecture, I talked about strategies of finding your first job, discussing questions such as: "How can I find my first job?" and "How can I make sure I remain engaged after obtaining the first job?". Some of the topics I discussed included employability and career competencies.

October 27, 2017

New Paper Published: #Trending Topics in Careers - A Review and Future Research Agenda

We just published our review paper "#Trending topics in careers: A review and future research agenda" in Career Development International. In this study, we reviewed all 693 published papers in Career Development International, Career Development Quarterly, Journal of Career Assessment, and Journal of Career Development between 2012-2016. In doing so, we formulated the topics that were most popular in these journals, which we called "trending topics". For each of the 16 trending topics that we found, we provide a brief description, some statistics on their publication frequence and potential differences between the journals, and some suggestions for future research on each of these topics.

October 13, 2017

PhD Defense Maxim Kovalenko

On Friday September 29th 2017, Maxim Kovalenko defended his PhD thesis at the University of Antwerp. Maxim has written a very interesting thesis in which he aims to build bridges between Sociology and careers research, thereby examining both micro and macro factors of career development. Among other things, Maxim discovered several patterns of career development over a long period of time, thereby showing that the transitional career pattern, which is characterized by flexibility and job transitions - already existed well before careers researchers started writing about this in the 1990s. Maxim was also critical of the neo-liberal perspective of individual agency and responsibility, noting that there might a possible "Matthew effect" in which the highly skilled profit from agency and become successful, whereas disadvantaged people may become even more disadvantaged because the added pressure of having to manage their own careers might be too much of a burden.

September 30, 2017

Academy of Management 2017 Update Part 2

Academy of Management 2017 Update Part 2

August 18, 2017

New Article in PLOS ONE: CSE and Work Engagement: Testing a Perception, Action, and Development Path

New article published in PLOS ONE about CSE, job crafting, career competencies, and work engagement.

August 17, 2017

Academy of Management 2017 Best Reviewer Award

I was awarded an Outstanding Reviewer award during the Academy of Management conference 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

August 8, 2017

Academy of Management 2017 Update Part I

This is a brief summary of my first two days at AOM 2017, including two great mentoring activities for the Careers Division.

August 6, 2017

JVB Special Issue on Sustainable Careers

JVB Special Issue on Sustainable Careers

July 11, 2017

Keynote @ CityWork Amsterdam Meeting 29 May 2017

Keynote @ CityWork Amsterdam Meeting 29 May 2017 about Sustainable Career Management of Young Workers

June 22, 2017

Keynote @ VU Amsterdam Appreciation of University Teachers

Keynote @ VU Amsterdam Appreciation of University Teachers

June 20, 2017

Joined Inge de Clippeleer's PhD Supervisory Committee

Joined the supervisory committee of Inge de Clippeleer's PhD project.

June 7, 2017

External Examiner of Fiona Dowling’s PhD Thesis

External examiner for PhD project of Fiona Dowling.

June 7, 2017

Upcoming Keynote at CityWork Amsterdam 2017

Upcoming keynote at CityWorks Amsterdam

June 7, 2017

New Publication about Career Competencies, Job Crafting and Employability

New publication in Applied Psychology: An International Review on career competencies, job crafting, employability, and work-home interaction.

June 7, 2017

New Publication about Future Time Perspective, Job Crafting, Work Engagement and Performance

New publication in European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology on future time perspective, job crafting, work engagement, and job performance.

June 7, 2017

Upcoming Keynote Talk during Symposium on Appreciating University Teachers

Keynote talk of sustainable careers and appreciation for university teachers.

May 22, 2017