Assessing key predictors of career success: Development and validation of the Career Resources Questionnaire (CRQ)

We present a new measure that assesses a comprehensive list of predictors of objective and subjective career success in a comprehensive way that can be used in future research and practice. Therefore, we have integrated theoretical and meta-analytic research to propose an integrative framework and developed and validated a new assessment tool: The Career Resources Questionnaire. Based on a literature review and existing scales, an item pool was created and evaluated in a multi-step procedure including expert ratings, item assigned tasks, and confirmatory factor analyses for item selection. Moreover, we analyzed the factorial structure, established convergent validity with scales measuring similar constructs, and examined discriminant predictive validity beyond similar scales for career satisfaction, promotions, and life satisfaction. Here we present German validation of the CRQ.