Career Engagement Scale.
CES-Hirschi
The degree to which a person proactively develops their career by showing self-directed, future-oriented career behaviors (e.g. career planning, networking, skill development, seeking feedback, voluntary further training). Unidimensional summary of proactive career behavior.
- Length and format
- 9 (unidimensional). 5-point frequency rating (1 = hardly ever to 5 = very frequently) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- German and English originals; validated Turkish adaptation (Korkmaz et al. 2020) and other translations; measurement invariance across gender and time
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Hirschi, A., Freund, P.A., & Herrmann, A. (2014). The Career Engagement Scale: Development and validation of a measure of proactive career behaviors. Journal of Career Assessment, 22(4), 575-594. http://www.andreashirschi.org/
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