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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... practice.” —Spencer G. Niles, Editor, Journal of Counseling & Development and Professor and Department Head, Counselor Education, Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Services, Penn State University “The twenty-first century world ...
... practice . New Realities of Career Development Fundamentally , our world is less predictable than was once thought . Our lives are uncertain and our work is subject to changes over which we can have limited control . Some of the " new ...
... practice for the last 100 years. This may provide a clue as to why theory and practice in the area of shift is strangely limited. Career as fit is typically associated with the theories of Frank Parsons (Parsons, 1909) and John Holland ...
... practice. Change. and. Career. Development. Theory. and. Practice. Change, technology and globalization are outpacing changes associated with the life cycle, so developmental models no longer can be seen as the primary changes we have to ...
... practice in the field for the rest of the century. Fundamentally, his model was that individuals had to know as accurately as possible information about themselves, especially their abilities, and also to have information about ...
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 |