한국 근로자의 경력 크래프팅(career crafting) 개념과 구성요인 탐색 연구

This study aims to conceptualize career crafting and identify its core components among Korean workers. To achieve this objective, a review of prior research on career crafting was conducted, followed by in-depth one-on-one interviews with 23 Korean employees across diverse occupations, generations, and organizational types. The interview data were analyzed using a comprehensive qualitative analysis procedure. The findings revealed that career crafting refers to strategic and proactive career development behaviors that individuals engage in to sustain and expand their careers in meaningful and sustainable ways. Five key components of career crafting emerged from the data: career direction setting, future career opportunity exploration, task and role expansion, relational capital utilization, and proactive learning and competency development. This study is academically significant in that it is the first empirical attempt to explore the concept and components of career crafting within the Korean context. Based on the findings, implications for future research are suggested, including the development of measurement tools, expansion of empirical studies, and design of intervention programs.