The role of information in career development
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https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4703Keywords:
Career information, Information science, Labour market information, Career information literacy, Cognitive information processingAbstract
The role of information in career development has received relatively little research attention. A literature review completed as part of a doctorate in the first half of 2021 indicates that career information features in only a small number of publications spread across Career Studies, Organisational Studies, and Education in the time period between 2000-2021. In many cases, career information has not been the main focus of these publications. It has, instead, been viewed as a by-product of other phenomena. This article contends that information should be treated as central, rather than peripheral, to career development processes.
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