Table 7.

Summary of successful transition antecedents by transition type.

Prominent career outcomes
Career stage	Type of transition	Job search related resources/actions	Employment status	Personal resources
Early career	Entry	A) Individual perceptions relating to career -Individual perceptions of skills and employability -Career self-efficacy -Career insight Career planning B) Advantages and Disadvantages related to career -Career barriers -Access to resources C) Experiences -Career programs -Internships -Professional -Experience -Voluntary work D) Programs and Individual Actions -Social support -Career counselling -Life design group intervention -Productive coping strategies	A) Individual perceptions and actions relating to career -Career adaptability -Career adaptive responses -Job search strategies -Labour market ambiguity B) Individual attributes and access to resources -Demographic characteristics -Access to resources -Social capital Social connections -Social support -Social networks -Personal capital -Professional experience	A) Demographic characteristics B) Individual perceptions -Compromise -Attachment anxiety -Perceived Parenting style C) Individual actions -Achievement -Learning D) Career adaptability E) Organizational characteristics
Mid career – upskilling or continued education	Work to school
	School to higher education		A) Individual characteristics -Demographic characteristics -Gender -Social position -Family characteristics -School performance B) Attitudes -Career -Engagement -Satisfaction	-Demographic characteristics; -Training
Mid career – progression or positive change	Promotion		-Demographic characteristics -Skills -Training -economic environment -Flexibility	-Type of transition -Transition characteristics
	Lateral		A) Objective experience -Skill utilization; -Career programs -Organizational support B) Individual perceptions and traits -Attitudes towards work values and practices -Career orientations -Community engagement -Cultural capital -Social capital -Vocational pride	-Personal calling
Mid career –change in work arrangement	Full-time to part-time
	To self-employment		-Personality traits -Family characteristics -Mentorship
	Part-time to full-time		-Demographic characteristics -Education -Motivation -Priorities social skills
Mid career –change in industry/field	Precarious to stable		-Socioeconomic background
	To portfolio career
Mid career – unforeseen or negative change	Involuntary	-Career orientations -Career self-management -Mobility -Career counselling	-Career orientations -Career self-management -Demographic characteristics -Hiatus -Mobility -Social support
	Stalled
	Resignation
Late career	Retirement		A) Individual Characteristics -Demographic characteristics -Education -Financial situation -Health B) Individual characteristics relating to work -Person-vocation fit -Person-job fit -Person-organization fit -Person-group fit -Social support -Organizational change
	Non-specific transition		-Demographic characteristics -Professional experience -Network -Perceptions of work context -Safety net

Prominent career outcomes
Career stage	Type of transition	Adjustment & coping	Career-related resources	Affective outcomes
Early career	Entry	A) Individual perceptions -Belonging -Perceived discrimination -Career doubt -Locus of control B) Actions and resources -Career skills -Productive coping strategies -Goal appraisal C) Programs and policies -Guidance -Career programs -Training	A) Demographic characteristics -Gender -Demographic Characteristics -Demographic variables B) Individual characteristics and perceptions about themselves -Personality traits -Self-esteem -Self-efficacy -Self-knowledge C) Values/ attitudes -Career-related filial piety -Cultural beliefs -Norms and values -Expectations D) Individual actions -Personal exploration -Learning -Goal appraisal -Construction exercise E) Support sources -Mentorship -Career support -Social support F) Individual approaches and perceptions relating specifically to careers -Career thoughts -Career planning -Career decidedness -Career decision-making -Career maturity -Efficacy G) Programs/Jobs -Career development programs -Training -Group career Internships -Internships -Job	A) Objective aspects of job -Salary -Job characteristics B) Individual attitudes and perceptions relating to job/career -Job fit -Motivation -Work values -Career maturity
Mid career – upskilling or continued education	Work to school		A) Personality traits -Commitment to learning -Ego development -Inner directedness B) Experience -Progression -Scope of transition
	School to higher education	-Optimism
Mid career – progression or positive change	Promotion	-Self-concept -Decision Making -Learning -Collaboration -Social support	A) Experience at work -Promotion -Training -Working conditions -Organizational characteristics B) Demographic characteristics	-Type of transition
	Lateral	-Mentorship -Career capital -Social capital -Cultural capital -Diversity -Network	A) Individual Characteristics and perceptions -Perceived barriers -Financial situation; B) Experience at work -Working conditions -PROMOTION -Professional growth -Training -Social support -Support systems	-Type of transition
Mid career –change in work arrangement	Full-time to part-time	-Identity
	To self-employment
	Part-time to full-time	-Training
Mid career –change in industry/field	Precarious to stable
	To portfolio career		-Network -Norms -Skills
Mid career – unforeseen or negative change	Involuntary			-Organizational enabling characteristics
	Stalled		-Demographic characteristics
	Resignation			-Type of transition
Late career	Retirement			-Type of transition
	Non-specific transition	-Demographic characteristics -Career counselling	-Social support -Work values -Demographic characteristics	-Scope of transition