{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/explore-careers-with-a-decision-question",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9034",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Explore careers with a decision question",
  "summary": "Exploration is useful when it reduces a named uncertainty.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Begin with one decision-relevant question: Do I enjoy the core task? Does the role use my strongest capability? Which gap blocks entry? What trade-off changes? Gather only enough market, practitioner or task evidence to update that question, then decide the next experiment or stop condition.",
  "limits": [
    "Career information changes and job titles are noisy. Exploration narrows uncertainty; it does not predict a whole career."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-skill-acquisition-career-dominant-focus"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-06EEB97387779691"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of 90 studies linked career adaptability with planning, exploration, occupational self-efficacy and multiple career and work outcomes.",
      "source_id": "RS-06EEB97387779691",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "These associations do not prove that a particular exploration exercise will cause promotion, income or employability gains.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When career exploration expands into endless browsing of roles, courses and trend reports."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Career information changes and job titles are noisy. Exploration narrows uncertainty; it does not predict a whole career."
  ],
  "example": "Rather than reading fifty AI-role posts, ask whether the desired role mainly requires model engineering or workflow/product integration, then inspect representative job tasks and practitioner examples.",
  "check": "The exploration session ends with an updated decision, a bounded next experiment or a clear unresolved fact.",
  "steps": [
    "The exploration session ends with an updated decision, a bounded next experiment or a clear unresolved fact."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-06EEB97387779691",
      "title": "Career adaptability: A meta-analysis of relationships with measures of adaptivity, adapting responses, and adaptation results",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879116300604"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-EA04F47374E04549",
      "title": "Learn new skills, turn them into career evidence, and protect the main development edge",
      "url": "/collections/learn-new-skills-turn-them-into-career-evidence-and-protect-the-main-development-edge"
    }
  ]
}