How to Take Proactive Control of Your Career and Find Meaningful Work

Anna is HR consultant and applied researcher at eelloo. She holds an MSc In Psychology from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology from Justus-Liebig-University. Anna’s research focuses on proactive career behavior, sustainable employability and the role of identity in development and finding work. As a consultant she helps organizations to align work with people’s personal stories.

We connected with Anna as we share a common passion for helping people find work that is meaningful to them in a changing environment. We talk about Anna’s own career story, her work on the theory and application of Career Adaptability, a tool she created to help individuals write their career story, how her company is experimenting with the way they work and new projects on the horizon.

Links from the episode: 

• Anna’s Linkedin profile
• Eelloo’s website (in Dutch)
• A recent research paper from Anna “Enhancing career adaptive responses among experienced employees: A mid-career intervention” in the Journal of Vocational Behavior