The construction of career through goal-directed action

Young, Richard A.; Valach, Ladislav

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2003.12.012

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“…The emphasis has thus shifted from observing clients objectively to engaging them subjectively (Del Corso & Rehfuss, 2011). Savickas (2013) highlights theoretical approaches and techniques developed over the past two decades or so that can facilitate qualitative assessment, including career construction counselling (Savickas, 2011), narrative career counselling (Cochran, 1997), constructivist career counselling (Peavy, 1997), goal-directed career construction counselling (Young & Valach, 2004), career construction counselling from a systems perspective (McMahon, Patton, & Watson, 2005), self-construction and the discovery of occupational activities and personal plans (Guichard, 2008a), creating metaphors to enable active engagement with the world of careers (Amundson, 2010), storied career counselling (Brott, 2001;Maree, 2011), and (constructivist) career counselling based on the chaos theory (Pryor & Bright, 2011). Most of these approaches were implemented in the case studies reported on in this article, with the results confirming Savickas' (2013) views and his assertion that '[t]he adaptive fitness of attitudes, beliefs, and competencies -the ABCs of career construction -increases along the developmental lines of [career] concern, control, conception, and confidence' (Savickas, 2014, personal communication).…”

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Research on life design in (South) Africa: a qualitative analysis

Maree

2015

South African Journal of Psychology

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No country, including South Africa, has been left untouched by the global economic meltdown in 2008 and fears that another financial meltdown could be imminent. This article reports on the emergence of career construction and life design in response to changes in the world of work. It explains the essence of career construction and life design and discusses their value in 21st century (South) Africa. It also discusses the re-emergence of adaptability as a pivotal 'survival skill' in the 21st century and its importance in career counselling contexts. The second part of the article covers the analysis of six case studies on career construction and design counselling. Qualitative data analysis was used to identify common themes and subthemes in the case studies. It emerged that life design counselling enabled the participants to understand themselves better and construct new selves, broadened their perspectives on career-life issues, facilitated change in their lives, encouraged action, and imbued new hope in them. However, more research is needed on such counselling, especially in group contexts. Keywords Adaptability, career construction, life design in South Africa, meta' approach to data analysis, thematic data analysis Numerous changes have occurred in the workplace and are fast changing the theory and practice of career counselling worldwide. The changes precipitated by the fourth economic wave and the fifth information wave (Gurri, 2013) in particular have left 21st century youth with no choice but to become more adaptable and employable (instead of merely finding employment) and thereby prepare themselves for the inevitable restructuring and transformation of the workplace (Maree, 2013).Twenty-first century workers' perceptions of work-related issues such as the goals, values, and the meaning they attach to work have changed dramatically as they have attempted to respond to

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Research on life design in (South) Africa: a qualitative analysis

Maree

2015

South African Journal of Psychology

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“…Life course theorists refer to this as the linking of lives. It is interesting to note that a basic premise of the contextual action theory of career (Young & Valach, 2004) is the linking of lives through joint projects.…”

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Counseling for Work and Relationship

Richardson

2011

The Counseling Psychologist

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Counseling for work and relationship is a social constructionist perspective, informed by feminist and social justice values, and responsive to radical changes in contemporary lives, that fosters a shift in vocational psychology from helping people develop careers to helping people construct lives through work and relationship. The first and major proposition of this perspective is a new discourse for describing the construction of lives that specifies four major social contexts through which people construct lives. These social contexts are market work, personal care work, personal relationships, and market work relationships. Additional propositions of the counseling for work and relationship perspective are the centrality of narrative theory for understanding how lives are constructed and agentic action as a critical process in constructing lives. Implications for research, intervention, and training are considered.

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“…The most promising theoretical frameworks within vocational psychology which explicitly include story are the Systems Theory Framework , the Contextual-Action Theory of Career (Young & Valach, 2004;Young, Valach, & Collin, 2002), the Theory of Career Construction (Savickas, 2005), and emerging theoretical approaches that conceptualise story and storying of career and identity as a dialogical process (Guichard, 2005;McIlveen & Patton, 2007a). All of those theoretical frameworks emphasise story and the process of storying career and, moreover, emphasise storying as a recursive coconstructive process the goes on between client and counsellor.…”

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Autoethnography as a Method for Reflexive Research and Practice in Vocational Psychology

McIlveen

2008

Australian Journal of Career Development

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This paper overviews the qualitative research method autoethnography and its relevance to research in vocational psychology and practice in career development. Autoethnography is a reflexive means by which the researcher-practitioner consciously embeds himself or herself amidst theory and practice, and by way of intimate autobiographic account, explicates a phenomenon under investigation or intervention. Autoethnography is presented as a vehicle to operationalise social constructionist research and practice that aims to establish trustworthiness and authenticity. Furthermore, the method is presented as a means to operationalise the notion of critical consciousness within researchers and practitioners. It is concluded that autoethnography should be admitted to the methodological repertoire of methods for vocational psychology research and practice.Author post-print version of McIlveen, P. (2008). Autoethnography as a method for reflexive research and practice in vocational psychology.

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The construction of career through goal-directed action

Cited by 99 publications

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Research on life design in (South) Africa: a qualitative analysis

Research on life design in (South) Africa: a qualitative analysis

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Autoethnography as a Method for Reflexive Research and Practice in Vocational Psychology

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