Dunja Palic

Dr. Palic is motivated by a desire to create social impact. In her research, she aims to understand the lived experiences of international professionals, namely skilled immigrants and international students, as they navigate their career transitions. She investigates this phenomenon through the lens of sensemaking, attending to cognitive processes that guide action. Her research has explored how the contextual factors surrounding a career transition, both in the home and host country, impact the way one makes sense of their career trajectory. In addition to highlighting barriers to workforce integration, she documents international professionals’ generative processes and success as they rebuild their careers, amplifying their resilience, adaptability and perseverance. Dr. Palic views interviews as an opportunity to create social impact. Drawing on her training in therapeutic coaching techniques—clean language and emergent knowledge—she supports her research participants during her interviews in unraveling their career experiences and finding direction. Her participants’ stories inspire and inform her teaching. In an increasingly diverse and multicultural environment, Dr. Palic sees her courses as an opportunity to promote understanding through dialogue. She draws on her research to offer professionally and culturally diverse insights in navigating organizational environments. Acknowledging diverse learning styles, she strives to offer multiple modalities of teaching including discussions, activities and simulations to help students retain information and connect theory to real-world scenarios. | International career transitions, immigrant workforce integration, IHRM, EDI

Dunja Palic is Assistant Professor at MacEwan University. Their stated interests include Dr. Palic is motivated by a desire to create social impact. In her research, she aims to understand the lived experiences of international professionals, namely skilled immigrants and international students, as they navigate their career transitions. She investigates this phenomenon through the lens of sensemaking, attending to cognitive processes that guide action. Her research has explored how the contextual factors surrounding a career transition, both in the home and host country, impact the way one makes sense of their career trajectory. In addition to highlighting barriers to workforce integration, she documents international professionals’ generative processes and success as they rebu. This summary considered all 2 collected sources.