This study examined the motivational resource of future work self salience and the additive
effect of career adaptability dimensions in the prediction of career planning, proactive skill
development, and proactive career networking in a sample of university students (N = 113). It
was hypothesized that greater clarity of future work self would predict engagement in each of
the proactive career behaviors and that specific dimensions of career adaptability would have
an additive effect in predicting particular proactive career behavior in line with the theory of
career construction. Results indicated that future work self predicted career planning and that
career concern had an additive effect. Future work self also predicted proactive skill development
and proactive career networking. However, career confidence and career curiosity mediated these
relationships in the prediction of skill development and networking respectively. In sum, results
suggest that future work self and career adaptability play an influential role in the engagement
of proactive career behavior