Proactive career behaviors and career success during the early career
De Vos, Ans De Clippeleer, Inge Dewilde, Thomas
De Vos, Ans
De Clippeleer, Inge
Dewilde, Thomas
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Publication Year
2009
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Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
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Publication Volume
82
Publication Issue
4
Publication Begin page
761
Publication End page
777
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The current article tests a longitudinal model of the process of proactive career behaviours and career success with two samples of graduates making the transition from college to work. Using structural equation modelling, we tested a theoretical model that specified the relationships between career progress goals, career planning, networking behaviours, and career success. A longitudinal panel study was conducted within two samples using a 3-year (sample 1) and 1-year (sample 2) time lag between the first and second data collection. The results support the process model and suggest that at graduation, career planning is affected by the goal of making career progress. In turn, career planning is positively associated with networking behaviours. Both career planning and networking at graduation are positively related to career planning and networking 1 year later (sample 1) but in sample 2, in which a 3-year time lag was used, these relationships were no longer significant. Support is found for the relationship between networking during the early career and objective and subjective career success. The findings are discussed in terms of their general implications for understanding the proactive career behaviour process through which graduates affect their career success during the first years of their professional career.
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Career Management