CAREER SERVICES Advising Guidance Counseling Placement Coaching

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).