Tag: career counselling

Metaphor Identification Research Opens a New Vista on Career and Work

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Did you know that metaphor is more than a literary adornment? Metaphor is key to understanding the world, the meaning of life, and communicating with other people.  Metaphorical language often goes unnoticed, yet we humans use metaphor in every day talk with one another, in what we read and write, and even in the way we gesture to say something.

For example, take the abstract concept time: “Time is money”, “Times are a changin”, “Times are tough”. Consider how often people use time in relation to a more concrete or physical experience, such as time in terms of space, distance, and movement: TIME AS AN OBJECT MOVING TOWARDS YOU.  “The meeting was brought forward to Monday.” Continue reading “Metaphor Identification Research Opens a New Vista on Career and Work” →

Writing and Telling a Career Story

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Stories are universal. Cultures include stories; cultures are stories-incomplete stories, always evolving. Every person has a story; a person is a story-an incomplete story, always evolving. At their confluence, the stories of cultures manifest through individuals, and individuals express themselves through the stories of their cultures.  As such, one is a story of the other, with each reflecting one another.  Indeed, on this planet, there are seven billion stories and counting, incomplete and always evolving, as diverse as all the peoples on earth, yet, somehow humanely very similar to one another.  How these many stories are told, heard, and created is very much the domain of counselling. Continue reading “Writing and Telling a Career Story” →

Cool Tools for Career Practitioners

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Career development interventions that are relevant, engaging, and accessible are better for supporting individuals’ progress toward their goals.  Career development resources have been used for decades to support people to understand their career needs, explore available career opportunities, make career decisions, and assist career practitioners in build rapport with clients.  Things have changed a bit.  “Back in the day” career practitioners used encyclopedic books that listed occupations and their tasks, responsibilities, and qualifications (e.g., The Job Guide). With exponential change–automation, massification, globalization–we are now in a very different world and career development tools have suddenly gotten cool (in my opinion at least)!

Engaging Career Development Resources

Recently, I was privileged to present “Engaging Career Development Resources” workshop at the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) national conference. It was fantastic to see locals and delegates from interstate and overseas coming together to learn about practical, engaging career development resources that can be used with a diversity of clients in a constantly changing career landscape.  In the workshop, I shared a list of Career Resources that can be used to support clients understand the plethora of opportunities and the necessary skills, qualifications, and experiences, they may need to meet their career potentials.

Youth unemployment is at an all time high, and so are change and innovation. It has never been more important to support the members of our various communities to develop their understandings of themselves, the changing world of work, and the opportunities for their futures. I hope you can make good use of these Career Resources to make a difference for your students and clients, and yourself.

Carolyn Alchin, Career Development Practitioner. twitter: @Careermumcaro

 

4E-cognition: Exploring thought, feeling, & action in career behaviour

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What is 4E-cognition?

In recent years a new way of looking at the notion of cognition has gained ground, often labelled as 4E-cognition (embodied, enacted, embedded, and extended cognition). The basic claim is that cognition cannot be reserved to individual processes inside the head (and body) only; rather cognition is seen as “a doing”; it is something people do in their active and explorative sense-making with the bio-social environment. Thus, an ecological turn is on its way within cognitive science that seeks to explore thought, feeling, and action as inter-related dimensions of an agent-environment system.  ACCELL is now applying this new research paradigm to career development.Career images Continue reading “4E-cognition: Exploring thought, feeling, & action in career behaviour” →

Narrative Career Counselling

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Career counselling is a term that subsumes a variety of diverse activities.  Here, the qualities and activities of narrative career counselling are highlighted.

Core Features of Narrative Career Counselling:

  • emphasises subjectivity and meaning;
  • faciliates self-reflection and elaboration of self-concepts toward an enhanced self-understanding that is subjectively and contextually truthful;
  • is a collaborative process in which the client is supported while creating an open-ended personal story that holistically describes his or her life and career; and,
  • produces a story which enables the client to make meaningfully informed career decisions and actions.

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