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Career Choice

Career Choice is a developmental decision-making process within vocational guidance whereby an individual selects a profession or occupational path based on the alignment of personal attributes, such as interests, values, and abilities, with external labor market opportunities and educational trajectories.

6.4K

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Toward a Unifying Social Cognitive Theory of Career and Academic Interest, Choice, and Performance

Robert W. Lent, Steven D. Brown, Gail Hackett · Journal of Vocational Behavior · 1994 · 7.3K citations

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A life-span, life-space approach to career development

Donald E. Super · Journal of Vocational Behavior · 1980 · 4.2K citations

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Career Choice and Development.

Kenneth I. Spenner, Duane Brown, Linda Brooks · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1986 · 3.2K citations

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Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences

Shelley J. Correll, Elaine Seymour, Nancy M. Hewitt · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1997 · 3.1K citations

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PREDICTORS OF OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE CAREER SUCCESS: A META‐ANALYSIS

Thomas W. H. Ng, Lillian T. Eby, Kelly L. Sorensen et al. · Personnel Psychology · 2005 · 2.4K citations · Full text

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Authors

13K

  1. IG
    Itamar Gati

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    54 publications · 4.1K citations

    37

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  2. RW
    Robert W. Lent

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    36 publications · 15.2K citations

    32

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  3. PA
    Peter A. Creed

    Griffith University, Australia

    33 publications · 2.8K citations

    27

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  4. AH
    Andreas Hirschi

    University of Bern, Switzerland

    25 publications · 2.8K citations

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  5. TW
    Trevor W Lambert

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    31 publications · 1.6K citations

    22

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Institutions

3.4K

  1. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    37 h-index

    116 publications

    8.6K citations

  2. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    36 h-index

    82 publications

    13.4K citations

  3. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    35 h-index

    91 publications

    8.2K citations

  4. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    32 h-index

    94 publications

    4.8K citations

  5. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    31 h-index

    85 publications

    27.2K citations

  6. Griffith University

    Brisbane, Australia

    31 h-index

    97 publications

    7.1K citations

  7. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    30 h-index

    76 publications

    5.4K citations

  8. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    30 h-index

    99 publications

    6K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Vocational Behavior

    425 publications · 51K citations

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  2. Journal of Career Assessment

    215 publications · 13.7K citations

    70

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  3. The Career Development Quarterly

    CDQ · 202 publications · 13.9K citations

    67

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  4. Journal of Counseling Psychology

    168 publications · 18K citations

    61

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  5. Journal of Career Development

    JCD · 180 publications · 8.6K citations

    52

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