Dr Marina Milosheva’s full PhD thesis Career information literacy and the decision-making behaviours of young people is now available from the Edinburgh Napier repository.

On the basis of the ESRC/SDS-funded empirical work reported in the thesis, Marina presents three main contributions to theory:

1. Articulation of career information seeking as a two-stage process.
2. Identification of two distinct career decision-making styles: (1) fulfilment-based; (2) pragmatic.
3. Demonstration of resilience as an information literacy skill.

A set of five recommendations for the development of policy and practice to support the provision of career services in Scotland is also presented in the thesis.

The document will be of interest to Library and Information Science researchers whose work focuses on information behaviour and use, Careers academics and practitioners whose work is concerned with decision-making (particularly amongst young people), and the Information Literacy community.