Paper presented during the EAWOP Conference 2015 in Oslo, Norway

1. CRAFTING YOUR CAREER
JOS AKKERMANS & MARIA TIMS
EAWOP MEETING 2015, OSLO

2. KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS PRESENTATION
 CAREER COMPETENCIES & JOB CRAFTING
 Are positively related
 … but reducing hindering demands shows different results
 JOB CRAFTING AS A MEDIATOR
 … between career competencies and perceived employability
 … between career competencies and work-home interaction
 SPILLOVER BETWEEN DOMAINS
 Career, Job, and Life

4. INTRODUCTION:
THE CHANGING WORLD OF WORK ÁND CAREERS
 PROACTIVE SELF-MANAGEMENT
 Crafting a job
 Crafting a career
 Spillover between domains

5. Career
Competencies
Reflective
Competencies
Communicative
Competencies
Behavioral
Competencies
Reflection on Motivation
Reflection on Qualities
Networking
Self-profiling
Work Exploration
Career Control
CAREER COMPETENCIES
(AKKERMANS ET AL., 2013; 2014; 2015)

6. Job
Crafting
Increasing Structural
Job Resources
JOB CRAFTING
(TIMS ET AL., 2013; 2014; 2015)
Increasing Social Job
Resources
Increasing
Challenging Job
Demands
Decreasing
Hindering Job
Demands

7. THE CHANGING WORLD OF WORK ÁND CAREERS

8. METHOD
 2-WAVE DATASET
 Total matched N=183
 Approximately 1 month in-between measurement moments
 DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
 59.4% female; 35.47 hours per week
 Young employees
 STRATEGY OF ANALYSIS
 Latent variable SEM with AMOS 21

9. RESULTS
 BASIC FINDINGS
 Reducing hindering demands did not fit latent JC factor
 Correlations all in the expected directions
 CC  JC  EPE & IPE
 Job crafting does mediate between CC and EPE
 Job crafting does not mediate between CC and IPE
 CC  JC  WHI & WHE
 Job crafting does mediate between CC & WHI
 Job crafting does mediate between CC & WHE

10. RESULTS

11. DISCUSSION: CRAFTING YOUR CAREER
 INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH ON WORK AND CAREERS
 … which has surprisingly been studied apart for a long time!
 First study to show a positive link between CC and JC
 EXTENSION OF SPILLOVER MODELS
 Spillover not only between work and life domains
 Three-way spillover: work, career, ánd life
 SMART JOBS
 Job crafting and career crafting as building
blocks for “smart jobs”

12. j.akkermans@vu.nl
m.tims@vu.nl