Relationship between protean career orientation and employability: Does career capital mediate the relationship?

This paper examines the existing literature related to protean career orientation and employability to validate the mediating effect of career capital. Main objective of the study is to find out the theoretical and empirical work of pioneers to establish the possible relationship between the said concepts. Hence the present work will support the future researchers to build a model to pursue their studies. According to the existing studies the relationship between protean career orientation and proactive career behavior is conceptually and theoretically has been proved clearly. But at the same time relationship between protean career orientation and career capital need to be cleared thoroughly, though few researchers have tried to establish association between protean career orientation and career capital. Existing literature says, career capital of an individual consists of three major aspects such as human capital (knowing-how) social capital (Knowing -whom) and psychological capital (knowing-why) and they are very much important to ensure employability of the individuals during the unemployment periods as well as employed periods. It is believed that during the unemployment time the candidates need to compete with various potential employees to prove their talents or they have to attract employers to receive employment. On the other hand, employers seek for people those who have multiple talents and appropriate with the mind set for having excellent human resource support or is the way to achieve competitive advantage in the industry.