Purpose

The purpose of this study is to investigate the structural relationships between protean career attitude, career resilience, proactive career behavior and external employability.

Design/methodology/approach

This study sampled 212 training apprentice employees who participated in training programs using a proportional stratified sampling in South Korea. The study tested the research model using structural equation modeling.

Findings

This study revealed that protean career attitude influenced external employability through career resilience and proactive career behavior. Career resilience fully mediated the relationship between protean career attitude and external employability and partially mediated protean career attitude and proactive career behavior. Proactive career behavior also mediated the relationship between protean career attitude and external employability.

Research limitations/implications

This study has a limitation by relying on cross-sectional data. In terms of theoretical implications, this study can add new knowledge to the protean career research by demonstrating that the protean career attitude influences perceived external employability through career resilience and proactive career behavior for the sample of young training apprentice employees.

Originality/value

This study uncovers the dynamic processes between protean career attitude and perceived external employability. Moreover, this study’s sample is significant because training apprentice employees are mostly young in their 20s and 30s with less than three years of working experience and working in small and medium-sized enterprises in South Korea.

中文翻译：

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多变的职业态度如何影响外部就业能力？职业韧性和主动职业行为的作用

目的

本研究的目的是调查多变的职业态度、职业弹性、积极的职业行为和外部就业能力之间的结构关系。

设计/方法/方法

本研究在韩国使用比例分层抽样对 212 名参加培训计划的培训学徒员工进行了抽样调查。该研究使用结构方程模型测试了研究模型。

发现

这项研究表明，多变的职业态度通过职业弹性和积极的职业行为影响外部就业能力。职业复原力在多变的职业态度和外部就业能力之间完全中介，部分介导多变的职业态度和积极的职业行为。积极的职业行为也介导了多变的职业态度和外部就业能力之间的关系。

研究限制/影响

本研究依赖横断面数据存在局限性。就理论意义而言，本研究通过以年轻培训学徒员工为样本，证明多变的职业态度通过职业弹性和积极的职业行为影响感知的外部就业能力，可以为多变的职业研究增加新的知识。

原创性/价值

本研究揭示了多变的职业态度与感知的外部就业能力之间的动态过程。此外，本研究的样本意义重大，因为培训学徒员工大多是 20 多岁和 30 多岁的年轻人，工作经验不足三年，在韩国的中小企业工作。