In the long-term participants remained committed to their initially chosen career field, hoping for a more progressive, innovative, and sustainable approach to tourism. Short to medium term career strategies are flexible in that a temporary exit from the career field is considered until changes in the external environment occur. Findings show that participants adopt a temporal lens. Based on a phenomenological approach we conducted 24 semi-structured in-depth interviews with under- and postgraduate tourism management students enrolled at two New Zealand universities. This research explores current tertiary tourism students' career strategies as impacted by Covid-19 as a career shock event, utilizing Bourdieuan career theory comprising career field, career capital, and its internal and external recognitions. While it was noted that this is not unusual practice within the career field, several participants expected this to become even more relevant in the immediate to short-term future.
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Gaining additional social capital in form of connections with the tourism industry was thus expected to provide access to information that would further inform the ongoing acquisition of recognized cultural capital based on the economic system's needs (Seibert et al., 2001 In line with current career field challenges within the wider economic system and the subsequent lack of employment opportunities, the establishment of professional networks was considered to be a significant advantage in accessing future career opportunities that might not be advertised to the wider public, instead recruiting from a pool of those already established within the industry (Elsayed & Daif, 2019). This in turn makes it challenging to identify what types of capital will be internally recognized and provide an advantage when seeking future employment within the still unpredictable career field.
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