Career development and coaching: Straddling two worlds and bringing them together

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Gill Frigerio ◽  
Stephanie Rix
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Career Coaching

This article distinguishes between the areas of professional practice of 'coaching' and 'career guidance', reviewing recent change and noting the emergence of 'career coaching' as a crossover activity. We argue for further integration of coaching and careers work under this label and note some of the benefits for coaches who are working on career development issues to share a theoretical understanding of career development. We flag some attendant risks of not integrating further and note that a learning focus is a potential shared understanding that could be used as a basis for this ongoing integration.

A Crisis in Career Development: Life Designing and Implications for Transition

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Wehmeyer ◽  
Laura Nota ◽  
Salvatore Soresi ◽  
Karrie A. Shogren ◽  
Mary E. Morningstar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Career Education ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Transition Services ◽  
Work Study ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Life Design

The field of transition—and the Division on Career Development and Transition (DCDT)—was built upon a foundation established by theories of career development that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s and paved the way for the work/study movement of the 1960s and the vocational and career education for students with disabilities movement that dominated the 1970s and, eventually, the transition services movement. Today’s leaders in vocational psychology and career guidance suggest that market and global economic forces associated with a postmodern world have created a crisis in career development models and methods. This article discusses the evolution of how career development has been understood, and the potential importance of a life design framework and its emphasis on career construction, rather than career development, for the future of transition services.

What has digital technology done for us and how can we evolve as a sector to make best use of what it has to offer?

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
Nicki Moore
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Barriers And Enablers ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

The need for career development practitioners to develop digital skills is a subject which has been revisited many times. This article draws on research undertaken in the UK in 2019 to establish the barriers and enablers in the use of technology to delivery career guidance and the training needs of the career development workforce to make the most of what digital technology has to offer. The research found that career development practitioners were using digital technology and applications both in their practice with clients and in the way they manage their business. This has prepared them to respond to the challenges in delivering career development services that the COVID-19 pandemic presented.

Who is viewed as client by social workers and general practitioners?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devin Rexvid
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Medical Problem ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Rational Process

This chapter examines whom social workers and general practitioners regard as a client, and how they gather information about a client. These professions have two very different approaches. For example, an applicant and a client do not need to be the same person for social workers, and social workers put clients in a broad social context to examine whether there are other clients such as a partner or children who could be affected by the problem. General practitioners concentrate mainly on the medical problem and consider social relationships to clients as less important. The chapter argues that the “traditional” theoretical understanding of professional practice as a linear and rational process consisting of diagnose, inference and treatment, reflects general practitioners’ practice as a mono-client profession, but not social workers’ as a multi-client profession.

The Ethics of Testing

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Garton
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Test Administration ◽  
Test Interpretation ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Test Use ◽  
Test Usage

This paper is concerned with ethical issues in the practice and administration of tests. Some broad principles related to the knowledge required for test usage are described, together with the skills necessary for competent test use. Ethical practice in relation to test users, training in testing, test administration, test interpretation and test instruments is also examined. The focus then changes to a consideration of the more general ethical principles that apply to professional practice and are equally applicable to testing. A final section examines the relevance of these issues for career guidance practitioners and also some recent professional developments that will encourage ethical practice in testing.

scholarly journals Career Guidance and Counseling and Personal Career Management – New Competencies for Pedagogical Specialists

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Valentina Sharlanova
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Career Management ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Management Competencies ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
University Training ◽  
Personal Career

The article analyzes main documents from the legislation of secondary education. The new function of pedagogical specialists „career guidance and counseling“ has been highlighted. Emphasis is placed on the professional portfolio as a tool for career development. The problem of the formation of career guidance and counseling competences and career management competencies is outlined. Good practices in basic university training of pedagogues in relation to the formation of these competences are presented. These include updating curricula and programs, introducing new courses. Recommendations and conclusions are formulated.

Role of Libraries in Career Development Among the Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-59
Author(s):  
K. Sakkaravarthi ◽  
S. Thanuskodi
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Student Empowerment ◽  
Student Needs ◽  
Microsoft Excel

The purpose of this chapter is to review and analyze the role of libraries and librarians in Management College student empowerment of career guidance, career counseling, and overall career development in Trichy and Pudukkottai districts. This study creates awareness about different careers among the students and librarians towards career development activities programs. This study may help to create responsiveness among the Management College and librarians to find out how to cater to their students and enhance students' personality, skills, confidence, and students' employability to develop their career. This study assists libraries to study and provide better infrastructure and programs pertaining to student needs. The 584 valid questionnaires were coded after data collection. The obtained data were tabulated and analysed using the statistical packages Microsoft Excel and SPSS. Hypotheses were tested and findings were drawn in the light of objectives of the investigation. The results were reported in the form of thesis, tables, charts, and figures used wherever necessary to make the presentations clear, simple, and easy. The study demonstrated that one-fifth of the respondents were agreed the following statement related career choice of the MBA graduates such as “I am capable of making my own career choice,” “I seek my parent's advice for career choice,” “I consult the librarian in making any career choice,” “I consult the placement officer in making career choice,” “I consult my friends before making any career choice,” “I seek advice of my seniors in making career choice,” “ I consult the alumni of my institute in making career choice,” and “I go by the market trend in deciding my career choice.” Nearly half of the respondents were neutral about the above mentioned statement, and the remaining one-third of the respondents disagreed about various career choices. Further, it is observed from the study that 49.3% of the respondents were neutral with overall level of career choice, 30.0% of the respondents disagree with overall level of career choice, and the remaining 20.7% of the respondents agreed with overall level of career choice.

New kindergarten teachers’ career development trajectories in China: A problem-solving perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-240
Author(s):  
Dan Wan ◽  
Rongfang Gu ◽  
Claire McLachlan
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Kindergarten Teachers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Attrition Rates ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Development Trajectories ◽  
Teacher Career Development

Since the 1960s, concerns for beginning teachers have attracted extensive attention. High attrition rates among beginning teachers have been an international challenge, which is costly for a nation’s budget. To improve the retention of new teachers, it is imperative to understand what beginning teachers have experienced in their professional practice. This qualitative research examined the career development trajectories of beginning kindergarten teachers in China. The experiences of 23 kindergarten teachers from Nanjing were investigated through semi-structured interviews. Using grounded theory, this research identified four main themes and four career development trajectories. Themes include orientation, mastery, re-examination and self-validation, while career development trajectories reveal that teacher career development is not unilinear, but diverse. These findings are crucial in raising the awareness of researchers and practitioners about the diversities and possibilities of teacher career development trajectories. Further implications for researchers, teacher educators and kindergarten teachers are discussed.

scholarly journals Evaluation Of Career Guidance Program In Vocational High School

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 00093
Author(s):  
Sri Tutur Martaningsih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Guidance Program

Career success is the achievement and self-actualization of the individual in his chosen career path. Understanding self-potentials and self-weaknesses, choice suitability, readiness and decisions, and understanding career development are expected to support individual career success. Facilitating the preparation of individual career development needs to be pursued for individual careers optimal development to benefit themselves and many others. Vocational high school students armed with relevant job competences, prepared for working after graduation. On the other hand, vocational high school graduates are still in their adolescent age with the development stage of search for identity, not yet thinking about career, so they needed more intensive career insight briefing through career guidance. Career guidance in vocational high school should be able to build students’ career readiness, and the maturity in their adolescent age which is relatively unstable in their socio-emotional. This review of career guidance program evaluation is conducted qualitatively through surveys, interviews and leiterature studies to provide an overview of evaluation program and its relevance to the necessity. Understanding the quality, weaknesses, obstacles to service implementation, and potential utilization are expected to improve career guidance effectiveness services in vocational high school. An evaluation on the overall career guidance program, will provide feedback for ongoing improvement. Various evaluation models are available, it needs to be selected about the relevance to the career counseling program characteristics, so that evaluation feedback is more optimal.

scholarly journals Theories of Career Development: Educational and Counseling Implications

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Preeti Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Work Identity ◽  
Developmental Experiences ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Career Interventions ◽  
The Future

Career Development is a continuous lifelong process of developmental experiences that focuses on seeking, obtaining and processing information about self, occupational and educational alternatives, life styles and role options. Put another way, career development is the process through which people come to understand them as they relate to the world of work and their role in it. This career development process is where an individual fashions a work identity. In educational development, career development provides a person, often a student, and focus for selecting a career or subject to undertake in the future. Educational institutions provide career counsellors to assist students with their educational development. It is imperative when educating the young people that the current school systems assist and consider the significance of this responsibility for the youth and their future. The influences on and outcomes of career development are one aspect of socialization as part of a broader process of human development. Theories and research describing career behavior provide the “conceptual glue” for as well as describe where, when and for what purpose career counseling, career education, career guidance and other career interventions should be implemented.  In educational development, career development provides a person, often a student, and focus for selecting a career or subject to undertake in the future. Educational institutions provide career counsellors to assist students with their educational development. The current paper will focus on the various theories related to career development and their educational implications.

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