Increased globalization and rapid technological advances have greatly affected how careers are enacted. Many of today's workers are transitioning across the boundaries of occupations, organizations, and countries more frequently than previous generations of workers. Despite these great changes in the contemporary workplace, relatively little recent academic consideration has been devoted to the career transition (CT) construct or the commonalities in the decision-making process used by individuals to determine whether to make a CT. Given the many significant changes that have affected careers over the last several decades, the purpose of this paper is to offer a contemporary typology of CTs, a theory-driven model of the voluntary inter-role CT decision-making process, and propositions for future research. The proposed typology and model should also help people make better decisions about CTs.

全球化程度的提高和技术的快速进步极大地影响了职业的制定方式。今天的许多工人比前几代工人更频繁地跨越职业、组织和国家的界限。尽管当代工作场所发生了这些巨大变化，但最近的学术考虑很少关注职业转型 (CT) 结构或个人用于确定是否进行 CT 的决策过程中的共性。鉴于过去几十年影响职业生涯的许多重大变化，本文的目的是提供当代 CT 类型学、自愿跨角色 CT 决策过程的理论驱动模型，以及未来的建议研究。