Replication material for: “Drivers of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Study of Push, Pull, Anti-Push, and Anti-Pull Factors”
2025
Brazier, C. É., Masdonati, J., Borges, A., Fedrigo, L., & Cerantola, M. (2024). Replication material for: Drivers of Involuntary Career Changes: A Qualitative Study of Push, Pull, Anti-Push, and Anti-Pull Factors. FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.25597/ekg0-mg94
FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences
Although research on work transitions is extensive, little is known about the specific challenges of involuntary career changes. This study focused on how people articulate push, pull, anti-push, and anti-pull factors when facing an involuntarily triggered career change. We conducted 19 semistructured interviews with people forced to change careers due to health issues, migration, or unemployment in Switzerland. Through a consensual qualitative analysis, we showed that career changes were driven (i.e., facilitated or inhibited) by participants’ interests, values, or skills. This resulted in five types of processes of career change, depending on whether participants were aiming to maintain their values, update their values, transpose their interests, resuscitate forgone interests, or valorize their skills despite the involuntary nature of the change they were undergoing. Overall, findings stressed individuals’ struggle to regain a sense of control when having to face a career change. Limitations and implications are discussed.
career change
career transition
push pull anti-push anti-pull factors
career control
consensual qualitative research
Word file: Codebook - Qualitative thematic tree, with 51 codes and selected excerpts illustrating them (F)
PDF: Readme for Codebook & Bibliography (F)
French-speaking part of Switzerland
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