14122: Enhancing Sustainable Careers in Turbulent Times: Integrating Insights Across Disciplines

The world in which we live and work is changing rapidly as a result of major global developments, including demographic change, the rise of technology and artificial intelligence (AI), new forms of work, climate change, and globalization - in particular, migration (OECD, 2024). These grand challenges generate novel problems and questions regarding the resilience of many workers who have to increasingly deal with uncertainty about finding and keeping work, adjust to changing ways of working, rapid digitization, and the rise of AI, combined with a pressure to perform and to stay employable. Altogether, these developments seriously challenge their ability to preserve and renew their career-related resources, i.e., their career sustainability. This challenges us, scholars, to broaden our perspective upon the meaning of a career and of the multiple, interrelated factors at both macro, meso, and micro level affecting career decisions and outcomes. In this panel symposium we approach the possible impact of these grand challenges on career sustainability from an integrative perspective thereby addressing the implications for diverse stakeholders at multiple levels. Our overarching aim is to advance research on career sustainability that matters in today’s turbulent context through a moderated discussion with panelists and including input from the audience. We bring together scholars with diverse yet complementary, highly relevant scholarly expertise on these core topics. We aim to engage in an intriguing conversation around how the insights each scholar has gained from their research on the topics under interest, together, can help to increase our understanding of what the changes and developments occurring in the current turbulent times imply for the sustainability of careers over time and in different contexts .