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CAREER SERVICESAdvisingGuidance
CounselingPlacementCoaching
Guidance
Goal = Adjustment
Methods = Educational
Goal = Maturity
Methods = Psychological
Develop competencies and use existing skills to achieve specific goals.
Method = Skill Improvement
Goal = Achievement
Goal = Health
Methods = Medical
MATCH MAKING
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
FIT SELF TO WORK
• Fit abilities to requirements.
• Fit interests to rewards.
• Yields success and satisfaction.
MEANING MAKING
CAREER COUNSELING
FIT WORK INTO LIFE• Career as story.• You authorize your own story.• Implement your self-concept• Who am I? What is my quest?
JOBLESS WORK
COMPANIES NOW LOOK FOR WORK, NOT WORKERS
ASSIGNMENTSASSIGNMENTSBOUNDARYLESS CAREERSBOUNDARYLESS CAREERS
PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACTPSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT
INDIVIDUALS BORN BETWEEN
1957 and 1964 HELD AN AVERAGE OF
TEN JOBS FROM AGE 18 TO AGE 38.
EMPLOYEES• TEMPORARY• CONTINGENT• CAUSAL• CONTRACT• FREE-LANCE• PART-TIME• EXTERNAL• ATYPICAL• SELF-EMPLOYED• EXTERNAL
CAREER AS PATH
LIFE COURSE - CURRICULUM VITA
CAREER AS CARRIER OF MEANING
CART, CARRIAGE, CHARIOT, CAR
Career as Cart
A calling
What you are called
What you call for
When the music changes,so must the dance.
ASSIST SOCIETY & INDIVIDUALS
ADAPT TO THE TRANSITIONS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
WORK WORLD.
ADAPT AND INNOVATE
MODELS METHODS MATERIALS
TO MEET NEW NEEDS
Vance Peavy
Norm Amundson Audrey Collin Richard Young
Larry Cochran
Design a Life
• Self• Identity• Career
Accounts Constitute the Self
• TALK SELF INTO EXISTENCE
• DEFINE IDENTITY THROUGH STORIES
• STORIES INVEST SITUATIONS WITH MEANING
• DEVELOP OUR IDENTITIES BY TELLING STORIES
• CHANGE OUR IDENTITIES BY CHANGING OUR STORIES
Career as Story
•Comprehensible•Coherent•Continuous•Credible
BIOGRAPHICITY
Ability of an individual to shape the life history and to place oneself in relation to
society.
Reflection on self as learning content
Autobiographical learning, competence, and agency
IDENTITY Biographical
construction to maintain coherence and continuity during times
of transition.
NARRATABILITY
KNOW YOUR STORY AND TELL IT TO AN AUDIENCE
USE NARRATIVE TO REDUCE CONFUSION
AND RESOLVE DOUBT
CLARIFY CHOICES SO AS TO ENHANCE THE ABILITY TO DECIDE
Clear and compelling story with which to organize your life leads to powerful thematic coherence in life story
Find wisdom and direction in their own
experience
Career
A story to transport us into the future.
CAREER INDECISION IS HESITATION BEFORE TRANSFORMATION
ABOUT TO LOSE PLACE
WAVERING MOVEMENT TOWARD MEANING, NOT A STALL
CONSTRUCT A WHOLE THAT WILL CLARIFY THE PARTS
Counseling
Bring occupational plot and career theme
back into balance after some dislocation.
PRACTICE INTO THEORY
Stories Inspire Action• In telling their stories, clients are
constructing a possible future.
• Clients seem to tell counselors the stories that they themselves need to hear, because from all possible stories, they narrate those stories that support current goals and inspire action.
Career Style Interview Questions
A. How can I be useful to you as you construct
your career?
1. Who do you admire?
Who did you admire when you were young? Why?How are you like ______?How are you different from ______?Who would you like to pattern your life after?
Draw on culturally meaningful role models and stories to consider possible selves
OFFER SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS
IN GROWING UP
Carl Jung Carl Jung
Hero helps us Hero helps us break away break away from home. from home.
• Different from influences as a form of Different from influences as a form of internalization because it is basic to the core internalization because it is basic to the core process of identity construction process of identity construction
In a sense we take in the parents but take on the traits of those we identify with.
In Latin “idem” means the same
1. Who do you admire?Who did you admire when you were young? Why?
How are you like ______?
How are you different from ____?
Who would you like to pattern your life after?
2. Do you read any magazines
regularly? Why do you like these magazines?
Environments• People select contexts that
implement their self-concepts and enable expression of their motives.• These ecological niches provide
coherent pathways, opportunities, rituals, social conventions, and moral guidelines.
What is your favorite book or movie?
Our elders say that old people are speaking to us
through the stones and bones they left behind long ago. It is time to listen and hear their
stories.
John Milton
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
Movies
Web-Sites
Stories should be inspired by society but written by the soul of the individual.
Emily Carr
4. Tell me your favorite saying.
Tell me a saying you remember hearing.
What is your motto?
Never, Never,Never, Never, NeverGive Up
Inch by inch, life is a cinch.
Yard by yard, life is hard. Student writing doctoral dissertation
http://www.vocopher.com
Click on “media library” for free materials.
Savickas, M.L. (2005). Career counseling: Psychotherapy Training Video (100 minutes). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (ISBN: 978-1-59147-379-4)
Savickas, M.L. (2009). Career counseling over time: Psychotherapy training video (300 minutes). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (ISBN: 978-1-4338-0684-1).