Career Development: Theories, Practices and Challenges

✍ Scribed by Tanya V. Martin

• Publisher: Nova Science
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Series: Professions: Training, Education and Demographics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A hallmark of career development and counseling is exploring various career options throughout life. With the rapid changes in the work world, from globalisation of the workforce to technological developments the process of career exploration has evolved and continues to change. The first chapter in this book reviews the theories and research regarding career development and barriers to career exploration, including personal variables and relationships, challenges to exploring careers as well as resources available to aid in the career exploration process. Chapter two focuses upon the influence of opportunity structures in shaping individual career development. Chapter three provides valuable new knowledge and insights relevant to career development theory that could potentially inform human resource practices aimed at promoting change-supportive and adaptive behaviours in a knowledge-driven economy and society. Chapter four studies career counseling for people in psychosocial situations of vulnerability and flexicurity. Chapter five applies concepts of emotional intelligence, emotional labour (EL) and career adaptability (CA) to explore how these variables may relate to kindergarten teachers' avoidance of professional burnout and their ability to cope with career challenges. The last chapter reviews the historical background and theoretical development of the feedback construct in the broader social sciences, proposes a definition of career-related feedback applicable to young adults, critically reviews the literature on the construct of career-related feedback in the context of goal-oriented theories, and, finally, explores the practical implications for career practitioners who work with young adults.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Front Matter
Professions-Training, Education and Demographics Series
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLORATION: BARRIERS, CHALLENGES AND TECHNOLOGY
ABSTRACT
CAREER EXPLORATION: BARRIERS, CHALLENGES AND TECHNOLOGY
Career Counseling Theories
Holland’s Theory of Vocational Choice
Super’s Developmental Theory
Krumboltz’s Learning Theory
Career Development and Exploration Process
Adolescents
College Students
Adults
Barriers in the Career Exploration Process
Personal and Relational Factors
Workplace Discrimination
Access to Resources
Implications for Career Counseling
Personal and Relational Implications
Workplace Discrimination
Access to Resources
REFERENCES
Chapter 2 THE INFLUENCE OF OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES IN SHAPING INDIVIDUAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
Model of Learning for Career Development: Role of Opportunity Structures
Opportunity Structures
Expectations of Engagement with Opportunities for Lifelong Learning and Career Development
Different Institutional Pathways into Employment
Role of Education and Training in Framing Career Development Opportunities
METHODS
EXAMPLES OF THE INFLUENCE OF OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES IN FACILITATING OR CONSTRAINING INDIVIDUAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT
The Role Different Forms of Work Play in Facilitating or Constraining Career Development
Significance of Education and Training in Faciltating Further Career Development
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Chapter 3 ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR IN THE WORKPLACE: PSYCHO-SOCIAL CAREER PREOCCUPATIONS AND OPENNESS TO TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
PSYCHOSOCIAL CAREER PREOCCUPATIONS
COGNITIVE RECEPTIVITY TO TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND INNOVATION
METHOD
Participants and Procedure
Measuring Instruments
Psychosocial Career Preoccupations
Cognitive Receptivity to Technological Change and Innovation
Statistical Analysis
RESULTS
Correlations
DISCUSSION
Practical Implications
Limitations and Recommendations
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Chapter 4 CAREER COUNSELING FOR PEOPLE IN PSYCHOSOCIAL SITUATIONS OF VULNERABILITY AND FLEXICURITY: A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST PROPOSAL*
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
CHALLENGES AT THE WORKING WORLD: FLEXICURITY AND PSYCHOSOCIAL VULNERABILITY
CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES FOR THE CAREER COUNSELING FIELD
A CAREER COUNSELING PROPOSAL
The General Principles of the Social Constructionism Perspective
The Basic Assumptions of the Proposed Career Counseling
A Psychosocial Approach
Psychosocial Reality
Psychosocial Relation
Practices, Narratives and Discourses
Decent Work
Psychosocial Vulnerability
Psychosocial Career
Working Life Project
Working Life Trajectory
Career Counseling Based on a Social Constructionism Proposal
Theoretical Framework
Technical Framework
Ethical-Political Project
Some Examples of Practices with Groups of People in Situations of Flexicurity and Psychosocial Vulnerability
CONCLUSION
First Challenge
Second Challenge
Third Challenge
Fourth Challenge
Fifth Challenge
Sixth Challenge
Seventh Challenge
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
Chapter 5 OVERCOMING FEARS BY ESTABLISHING MINI-TASKS AND ACTIVITIES AS A STRATEGY FOR ENHANCING CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND FEARS
Fear and Job Search Behaviour
TYPES OF PERSON AS A FUNCTION OF THEIR WORK SETTING AND FEAR
OUR STUDY
METHOD
Participants
Variables and Instruments
RESULTS
DISCUSSION AND INTERVENTION
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Chapter 6 EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS COPING WITH CHANGE: THE ROLES OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, EMOTIONAL LABOUR AND CAREER ADAPTABILITY
ABSTRACT
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CHALLENGES FACING ECE TEACHERS
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
EI AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT
EI AND TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS
CAN EI BE INCREASED AND STRENGTHENED?
CAREER ADAPTABILITY
CONCEPT OF EMOTIONAL LABOUR
EMOTIONAL LABOUR AND JOB SATISFACTION
EMOTIONAL LABOUR AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
TEACHING INVOLVES EMOTIONAL LABOUR
TEACHING IN A CHINESE KINDERGARTEN
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
Chapter 7 THE ROLE OF CAREER FEEDBACK IN THE CAREER DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG ADULTS
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
HISTORICAL AND DEFINITIONAL CONTEXT
Defining Career Feedback in Young Adults
RESEARCH ON CAREER FEEDBACK
Existing Measures of Feedback
The Feedback on Career Goals Inventory
The Role of Feedback in Self-Regulation
Direction for Future Research
PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Index