Apologies for cross-postings
Dear colleagues
For the past few years, together with colleagues from PennState and ESCP, we have been running a series of International HRM seminars. I usually do not post on the Careers Division list as not everyone studying Careers is as excited about HR as we are but I am delighted to announce that our next webinar, on November 20th (at 11:30 AM Eastern time/ 17:30 CET/ 16:30 UTC), will have our very own Careers Division Jos Akkerman's present on "How Can Research on Career Shocks Inform IHRM?" - which is probably of interest to many division members.
Here is where you can find more information about the event and register:
And while you are at it, you can perhaps check out the full series of webinars- all the videos can be find here and we have had several Career scholars on the series in the past so these are definitely worth checking out.
Best wishes
Mila
In our next IHRM Webinar, we are excited to welcome Prof. Jos Akkermans (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) who will discuss How Research on Career Shocks Can Inform IHRM
Date & Time:
- November 20 16:30- 18:30 (UTC).
- November 20 8:30 - 9:30AM PST (Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco)
- November 20 11:30 AM - 12:30PM EST(Toronto, Boston, New York, Miami)
- November 20 16:30 -17:30 GMT(London)
- November 20 17:30 - 18:30 CET (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb) November 20
- November 20 18:30 - 19:30 EET (Helsinki)
- November 21–12:30 AM -1:30 AM CST (Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei)
- November 21 1:30 AM - 2:30 AM JST (Tokyo, Kyoto)
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* This event is free and open to anyone who is interested, but you must register to receive the zoom link to attend. This link will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event
Register here: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/how-can-research-on-career-shocks-inform-ihrm/
As an international partnership, the IHRM series welcomes speakers from all over the world and multiple time zones. This session will be recorded to share with registrants who are not able to attend the live session
Additional details:
Abstract: Research in the area of careers and career development has focused strongly on individual agency and control. Though this research has offered many essential insights into how people can effectively navigate their careers, it also suffers from a critical blind spot: the role of major events that we cannot predict or control. Recently, research on career shocks – disruptive events that lead to deliberate career reflection – has "made a comeback" in the scholarly literature on career development. Studies show that such shocks happen to essentially everyone and can significantly impact people's career paths. For example, career shocks can cause changes in career decisions, employability, and (work and career) engagement. In this IHRM webinar, Professor Jos Akkermans will discuss the initial conceptualization of career shocks and recent conceptual and empirical developments about the role of career shocks in various work- and career-related outcomes. During this discussion, he will reflect on the implications of career shocks research for International HRM. After all, if we cannot predict and control career shocks, what can HR possibly do…?
Speaker: Jos Akkermans is a Full Professor of Sustainable Careers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research mainly focuses on career sustainability and career success. Within these areas, he studies topics such as career shocks, career transitions, and employability. Prof. Akkermans is one of the developers of the sustainable career model (De Vos et al., 2020) and research on career shocks (Akkermans et al., 2018; 2021). He also has a special interest in studying nontraditional and understudied groups of workers, such as gig workers and entrepreneurs. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Vocational Behavior and a Past Division Chair of the Academy of Management Careers Division. He has also been actively involved in collaborating with career and HR professionals, for example, through career-related interventions and workshops.
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Mila Lazarova, PhD
William Saywell Professor of International Business
Beedie School of Business
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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