The Chaos Theory of Careers: A New Perspective on Working in the Twenty-First CenturyThe Chaos Theory of Careers outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development. It draws together and extends the work that the authors have been doing over the last 8 to 10 years. This text represents a new perspective on the nature of career development. It emphasizes the dimensions of careers frequently neglected by contemporary accounts of careers such as the challenges and opportunities of uncertainty, the interconnectedness of current life and the potential for information overload, career wisdom as a response to unplanned change, new approaches to vocational assessment based on emergent thinking, the place of spirituality and the search for meaning and purpose in, with and through work, the integration of being and becoming as dimensions of career development. It will be vital reading for all those working in and studying career development, either at advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level and provides a new and refreshing approach to this fast changing subject. Key themes include: Factors such as complexity, change, and contribution People's aspirations in relation to work and personal fulfilment Contemporary realities of career choice, career development and the working world |
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... interactions with both people and objects with emotional value . Hence we realize that the company we keep , the jobs that we do and the products that we purchase are to some degree reflections or projections of ourselves . We are , in ...
... interact, and that unplanned events play a larger role in people's lives than traditionally allowed (Krumbolt & Levin, 2004; Patton & McMahon, 2006). The traditional matching paradigm assumes that individuals have more control over ...
... interactions will benefit such a client . Furthermore , the assertion that counseling should eschew testing ( scores ) and focus exclusively on stories lacks any credible account of helping an individual understand how they relate to ...
... interaction rather than total dominance or abject submission. We are creative participants in the changing nature of the world understood as the flux of patterns. Third, chaos theory draws attention to the subtlety of the universe ...
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Contents
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Attractors | |
Patterns and Fractals | |
Research Support | |
Strategies for Chaos Theory Career Counseling and Assessment | |
Counseling and Assessment | |
Meaning Purpose and Spirituality | |
Organizational Development | |
Where Are We Going and Where We Have Been | |
Appendices Bibliography | |
Index | |
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The Chaos Theory of Careers: A New Perspective on Working in the Twenty ... Robert Pryor,Jim Bright No preview available - 2011 |
The Chaos Theory of Careers: A New Perspective on Working in the Twenty ... Robert Pryor,Jim Bright No preview available - 2011 |