Toward a More Complex View of Career Exploration‪.‬

********** Traditionally, career exploration was most commonly associated with the school-to-work transition as a critical stage in an individual's career development (Savickas, 1997; Super, 1957). More recently, scholars and practitioners have started to embrace the idea of career exploration as a lifelong pursuit occurring across life roles and as a means to cope with a variety of career transitions (Blustein, 1997; Niles, Anderson, & Goodnough, 1998). With a focus more on developing an exploratory attitude to life and to the various roles people engage in, career exploration is now seen as an adaptive mechanism that helps individuals manage rapid changes in today's work environment (Blustein, 1997; Super & Knasel, 1981; Zikic & Klehe, 2006).