Good hope in chaos: Beyond matching to complexity in career development

The significance of both higher education and career counselling is outlined. The predominant matching paradigm for career development service delivery is described. Its implications for reinforcing the status quo in the South African community are identified and questioned. The Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC) is suggested as an alternative theoretical perspective which incorporates both stability and change using convergent and emergent perspectives. The counselling implications of the CTC are adumbrated in terms of confronting uncertainty by moving from closed to open systems thinking; accepting risk; not fearing failure and; negotiating uncertainty through shiftwork paradigms. An example of the application of the provision of career development services to a disadvantaged group is also described. It is concluded that a changed theoretical framework for the provision of career development services can provide a map and a strategy for incorporating stability and change as a basis for social reform and good hope for the nation’s future through higher education

Story crafting: strategies for facilitating narrative career counselling

Narrative career counselling is a growing force in career guidance and counselling that offers a direction for the field to respond to the needs of increasingly diverse client groups. In this article, we review established and emerging approaches to narrative career counselling, then focus on the emerging story telling approach. We offer examples of how career counsellors may facilitate narrative career counselling through three levels of story crafting questions, as well as mapping and scaffolding, which are illustrated by a case example

Poetic reflexivity and the birth of career writing: An autoethnographic love story

The intention of this chapter is to show how autoethnographic research might promote reflexivity among career professionals. We aim to answer the question: can writing one’s own life and career story assist career practitioners and researchers in identifying patterns, idiosyncrasies, vulnerabilities that will make them more aware of the elements that are fundamental to career construction and that have been mentioned in a variety of disparate places in the existing career literature? What interested us as career researchers and co-creators of the narrative approach Career Writing in considering the innovative intention of this book, was how writing our own career story could deepen our professional reflexivity and might also help others to do so. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22799-9_30 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reinekke-lengelle-phd-767a4322

Perizie. Le expertises nella fototeca di Antonio Morassi

Analisi di una particolare tipologia documentaria e critica conservata in abbondanza nella Fototeca Antonio Morassi, le perizie o expertises. in allegato: indice degli autori delle perizie conservat

Career writing as a dialogue about work experience: A recipe for luck readiness?

In this article, we examined whether career writing—creative, expressive, and reflective writing—can increase luck readiness, which is the ability to respond and make use of (career) opportunities. Two 2-day writing courses were taught to third-year bachelor students, one before and one after work placements. In this exploratory study, results showed that luck readiness and work competence increased when students engaged in career writing. Specifically, flexibility, risk, and persistence increased among students in the experimental group. They also made jumps in optimism and efficacy, though no statistically significant differences were found in these domains