Resilience in context of coping strategies with unemployment

Abstract

"One of the implicit assumptions in the activation strategy of challenge and development is that jobless people had a specific pattern of knowledge and skills and only had to search for suitable working places. But there are a lot of unemployed people with unconventional biographies: They worked in different jobs and have various experiences - and these experiences do not form conventional job patterns. Thus new questions arise: Where do such people have to look for jobs? How can we support such people getting useful information about their opportunities? Where are and what is useful information in such cases?<br> But there is a confusing fact: Some of these people find a suitable job by themselves and others do not. So, further questions occur: What are the differences between those finding a job and those who do not? What personal factors influencing the probability that persons will get a job? In this context an old educational and psychological concept obtains new attention: the concept of resilience as an opposite pole or complementary concept to the concept of vulnerability. The intention of this article is to consider similarities and differences of some concepts currently discussed in the field of activating jobless people. So we can explore what is specifically new in the concept of resilience." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Klevenow, G. (2012): Resilience in context of coping strategies with unemployment. In: A. Aamaas, W. J. F. Keenan, C. Sedmak & L. van d. Zijden (Hrsg.) (2012): Resilience and unemployment, p. 203-209.