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Age and tenure are inadequate measures of career stage. The use of arbitrary age and tenure groupings as indicators of career stage is theoretically unsound and could lead researchers and career counselors to make erroneous conclusions. It has not yet been shown empirically that classifications based on the age or tenure yield groups of individuals with anything in common other than their age and tenure. The purposes of this article are to point out the weaknesses of the psychometric properties of age and tenure as career stage measures (i.e., generalizability, validity, and reliability) and to propose an alternative way of measuring career stage. The article concludes with suggestions for future research in this area. |
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