Career Decision-Making (1991- 2018): A Systematic Literature Review and Prospect for Future Research

Abstract

The present paper brings a dynamic and systematic literature review (SLR) on career decision-making (CDM) with the purpose to a) to review and analyze the academic literature on career decision-making, conduct a content analysis for the purpose of classification and provide a comprehensive bibliography b) to categorise the articles according to journals, authors, and year of publication c) develop a classification of the research articles on the basis of research methods mostly conceptual, empirical or case study. In addition, this paper contributes an overview of 127 peer-reviewed journal articles on CDM from 1991 to the end of 2018.  Moreover, the study contributes to identifying the various untapped areas for further research in terms of industry, country of study, research methods, type of study, by providing propositions that guide upcoming research.