The Oxford Handbook of Career Development provides a comprehensive overview of the career development field. It features contributions from 42 leading scholars, addressing the context, theory, and practice of career development in the contemporary world.

The volume defines career development as an inclusive term that relates to all individuals regardless of class, gender, sexuality, ability, geography, or ethnicity. It contains cutting edge research, theory, and thinking which approach career development as a transdisciplinary field, drawing from sociology, psychology, education, and organizational studies as well as other areas. Chapters explore what personal, political, societal, economic, and cultural factors influence our careers and how a diverse range of theoretical traditions has sought to account for the phenomenon of career. It also addresses what can be done to improve and enhance people's careers through a range of educational, counselling, and employment interventions.

Peter J. Robertson is a qualified career adviser and a chartered psychologist. He teaches career theory and policy to postgraduate students at Edinburgh Napier University, and he is a fellow of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC) and an editor of the Institute's Journal. His research interests focus around the links between careers, health, and well-being; and employment support services for disadvantaged groups.

Tristram Hooley is a researcher and writer specializing in career and career guidance. He has published nine books and numerous articles and reports. He is Professor of Career Education at the University of Derby, Professor II at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, and Chief Research Officer at the Institute of Student Employers. His work is focused on the inter-relationships between career, politics, technology, and social justice.

Phil McCash is a qualified career development practitioner with experience of working with young people and adults in a variety of contexts and settings. He was elected a Fellow of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC) in 2008 and edits the NICEC journal. He currently works as an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick's Centre for Lifelong Learning where he is Course Director for the Master's in Career Education, Information, and Guidance in Higher Education and Director of Graduate Studies.