Proactive Career Behaviors, Subjective Career Success, and Job Marketability: Test of a Social Cognitive Model Among Turkish Workers

We examined the applicability of the social cognitive career self-management (CSM) model of proactive career behaviors in a new cultural, economic, and linguistic context. A sample of 536 Turkish workers completed measures of supervisory support, proactive personality, proactive career behavior, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, two indicators of subjective career success (career satisfaction and organizational rewards), and job marketability. The measurement and structural models provided good fit to the data, with the structural model also showing invariance across gender and educational level (i.e., workers with and without a college degree). The results extend previous research by providing preliminary evidence for the international applicability of the CSM model of proactive career behaviors and its linkage to subjective career success and job marketability. We discuss future directions for research and practice on career progress and sustainability through a social cognitive lens.