What is Career wellbeing?

And what impact does it have on your overall wellbeing?

As part of our Career Wellbeing Series these are exactly the questions we are going to think about, explore and answer together.

Some background...

In today's fast-paced and demanding work environments, the concept of career wellbeing has gained significant attention. However, beyond the surface-level advice and conventional approaches lies a deeper exploration that calls for a more critical reflection.

As a career psychologist, who both practices and researches, I have an healthy obsession (I hope) with trying to better understand and unravel the dimensions of career wellbeing, to challenge prevailing assumptions, and offer fresh insights based on emerging research evidence in the fields of career, organisational and critical psychology.

As I talk about career wellbeing, I have noticed the term being used more and more frequently on social media, by media outlets and within organisations – an important conversation I think but…

And this is an important but…before we start to talk about career wellbeing and as we begin to understand it as part of our overall wellbeing, we must take stock of what we know, what we don’t know, and the contexts within which we use term…

In this series of 4 articles on the topic of career wellbeing we will address what career wellbeing is, why it is important, the pillars upon which wellbeing and career wellbeing is built and outline some practical strategies to help you craft your own career wellbeing.

If you would like to find out more about Career Wellbeing our Founder Sinead, recently partnered with IMAGE.ie to talk about Career Wellbeing which is linked for you. 

Part One What is Career Wellbeing