Planning for Your Future Career
Published on Mar 20, 2016
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Planning for Your Future Career
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Planning for Your Future Career
- Introduce you to 3 approaches to the future
- Think through critical questions linked to your career
- Reflect on what you could be doing
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Matching
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Matching
- Choice = self vs. work
- Looks for objective comparison
- Better "match", better career
- Career is a managed process
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Where are you on the continuum?
5 big decision making questions
- What place does work take in my life?
- What do I know about my skills?
- What do I know about my desires?
- What skills do employers look for?
- How does employment meet desires?
Where are you on the continuum?
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Narrative
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“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, cognitive maps, mental models, metaphors, or narratives. Stories are how we explain how things work, how we make decisions, how we justify our decisions, how we persuade others, how we understand our place in the world, create our identities, and define and teach social values.” - P. Rutledge (2011)
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Narrative
- Narratives undercut surface answers
- Invited to make sense by association
- Key moment of past, present & future
- Helps us choose and tell a career story
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Narrative Career Reflection Process
Moving Your Story On
- Learning
- Employing strengths
- Getting support
- Focus vision
- Respond to chance
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“The common claim [of Career Development Theory] is that a life can be encapsulated, summed up, captured in a three-letter code, or in a narrative, and that past behaviour predicts future behaviour… we would be right to be humble about our capabilities to understand the trajectory and cautious in making any long-term deterministic predictions about the future. The Chaos Theory of Careers draws attention to the limitations of our simplifications and the challenges of living uncertainly in our predictably complex world.”
- Pryor & Bright (2011)
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Chaos/ Happenstance
- Work made up of complex systems
- Future is emergent
- Self & work both change
- Develop disposition to uncertainty
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Luck Readiness Index
Flexibility- Prepared for and ready to respond to change, does not find it hard to alter thinking or behaviour, not threatened by the unfamiliar, adaptable.
Optimism- Sees opportunities rather than problems, takes the best out all situations, hopeful, open to new experiences.
Risk- Confident to make decisions on the face of change, recognises but is not deterred by chance of failure, not dominated by fear
Curiosity- Explores and seeks new knowledge and experiences, disciplined in efforts to learn, learns from study and others.
Persistence- Able to endure boredom and failure, obstacles not seen as discouragement, confident and tenacious in seeking their goals.
Strategy- Seeks out opportunities to improve chance of reaching their goals, believes chance can be both influenced and expected, plans ways to win no matter what the situation.
Efficacy- Believes that luck, circumstances, problems and others need not determine their destiny, seeks to take control of their lives, focuses on opportunities and what they can control.
Luckiness- Believes or expects to be lucky.
Optimism- Sees opportunities rather than problems, takes the best out all situations, hopeful, open to new experiences.
Risk- Confident to make decisions on the face of change, recognises but is not deterred by chance of failure, not dominated by fear
Curiosity- Explores and seeks new knowledge and experiences, disciplined in efforts to learn, learns from study and others.
Persistence- Able to endure boredom and failure, obstacles not seen as discouragement, confident and tenacious in seeking their goals.
Strategy- Seeks out opportunities to improve chance of reaching their goals, believes chance can be both influenced and expected, plans ways to win no matter what the situation.
Efficacy- Believes that luck, circumstances, problems and others need not determine their destiny, seeks to take control of their lives, focuses on opportunities and what they can control.
Luckiness- Believes or expects to be lucky.
