Author(s)

Hou Jun, Xie Jinyu, Tian Guomei, Lixia Zhong

Corresponding Author

Hou Jun

Abstract

As an important part of the labor market, people engaging in a profession for the young only must experience career transition of their 20s and 30s. Greatly different from the traditional career transition, they experience career transition very early and mostly not out of their own free will, with a low success rate. In the existing career transition literatures, a complete system has not been established for the study in this population, and it's short of guidance which is available for the improvement of the career transition process. This paper studies the career transition process of people engaging in a profession for the young only by studying the career transition process of ballet dancers, a representative of this population. It has been found in this study that each stage of career transition of ballet dancers varies from each other: (1) Ballet dancers feel puzzled mainly due to their emotional tie to the original career and single skill; (2) It is more possible for them to use internal resources from the original career and ignore social resources when coping with the transition; and (3) They pay more attention to their independent development in the new career and requiting ballet. On these basis, this paper emphasizes the combination of the career transition process and transition coping strategies, proposes an optimized career transition model for ballet dancers, and summarizes the main characteristics of the career transition of people engaging in a profession for the young only, enriching relevant theoretical studies.

Keywords

People engaging in a profession for the young only; career transition process; optimized model