This article examines different orientations to planning in the context of the post-redundancy transition of workers in the Swedish steel industry. The aim of the article is to extend our understanding of the role of planning in careers transitions. Drawing on careers transitions theories, the article explores the qualitative experience of the journey between a redundancy event and the employment situation several years later. Within the careers literature planning is regarded as important to transitions, yet there is a tendency to present planning as an ongoing and lifelong process. By going beyond the prevalent focus within the career literature on managerial, professional or creative industries workers, the article raises the question of whether highly agential, ongoing, lifelong approaches to planning apply to everyone. Data are based on working-life biographical interviews conducted several years after redundancy. The findings show that although some participants resembled assumptions within the careers literature, there are key variations relating to ongoing planning, reflecting differences in the expectations of agency and perceptions of structural constraint. The analysis identifies three orientations to planning – strategic, episodic and truncated – and explores these in relation to both post-redundancy transition outcomes and, crucially, the experience of the transition journey.

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裁员后职业转型规划的战略性、偶发性和截断性方向

本文探讨了瑞典钢铁行业工人裁员后过渡背景下的不同规划方向。本文的目的是加深我们对规划在职业转型中的作用的理解。本文借鉴职业转型理论，探讨了从裁员事件到几年后的就业情况之间的定性经历。在职业文献中，规划被认为对转型很重要，但有一种趋势是将规划呈现为一个持续的、终生的过程。通过超越职业文献中对管理、专业或创意产业工人的普遍关注，本文提出了这样一个问题：高度代理的、持续的、终身的规划方法是否适用于每个人。数据基于裁员几年后进行的工作生活传记访谈。研究结果表明，尽管一些参与者类似于职业文献中的假设，但与持续规划相关的关键差异，反映了机构期望和结构约束感知的差异。该分析确定了规划的三个方向——战略性、偶发性和截断性——并探讨了这些与裁员后过渡结果以及最重要的是过渡过程的经验的关系。