... to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Career agency has been defined as a “person’s sense of mastery or control over the career” (Hall et al., 2018 , p. 138) and has been conceptualised through...

.../methodology/approach The authors conducted an exploratory, qualitative study involving in‐depth interviews with 20 Chinese individuals who returned to China after spending at least three years living, studying and/or working in a range of “host” countries. Findings This study shows that the career agency...