This article outlines a concurrent complementarity, mixed methods research design to explore the careers of university professional staff through the application of a contemporary career profile framework. Two hundred and twenty-six participants from Australia and the UK completed a multi-method questionnaire. Integration occurred at three points: the conceptualisation stage using a multi-method instrument; the experiential stage where the quantitative data results acted as a priori themes for the theoretical thematic analysis; and the inferential stage where both convergent and divergent triangulation of the results took place to provide a broader and deeper understanding of the phenomenon under study. This methodological design aims to demonstrate the usefulness of mixed methods in carrying out careers research. The findings extend the career profile theory by highlighting individual needs, related behaviours and outcomes and by suggesting that there are various psychological mechanisms acting to drive career behaviours.

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大学的专业人员：职业需求、价值观、态度和行为

本文概述了一种并行互补、混合方法的研究设计，以通过应用当代职业概况框架来探索大学专业人员的职业生涯。来自澳大利亚和英国的 226 名参与者完成了多方法调查问卷。整合发生在三个点：使用多方法工具的概念化阶段；定量数据结果作为理论主题分析的先验主题的体验阶段；以及对结果进行收敛和发散三角测量的推理阶段，以提供对所研究现象的更广泛和更深入的理解。这种方法论设计旨在证明混合方法在开展职业研究中的有用性。