New Questions for Vocational Psychology: Premises, Paradigms, and Practices
adaptability; career; constructionism; employability; Psychology
The innovative responses of vocational psychology and career counseling to the important questions raised by people living in information societies will continue the disciplines' tradition of helping individuals link their lives to the economic context. The questions pertaining to perspectives, paradigms, and practices arise mainly from the increasing dominance of ''jobless work," which moves people from project to project and from one culture to another culture. These recurring transitions mean that individuals cannot maintain their employment, so they must maintain their employability and actively manage their careers through adaptability, intentionality, life-long learning, and autobiographical reasoning. The emerging practice of career counseling seems to take the general form of constructing career through small stories, deconstructing and reconstructing the small stories into a large story, and co-constructing intention and action to begin the next episode in that large story.
Savickas M L
Journal of Career Assessment
2011
2011-08
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072710395532" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072710395532</a>
Specific and Diversive Career Exploration During Late Adolescence
antecedents; behavior; career; college-students; confidence; decision-making process; diversive; employability; exploration; high-school-students; indecision; perspective; planning; Psychology; self-efficacy; specific; validation; Vocational identity
The exploration literature suggests that career exploration may be separated into two distinct forms. Diversive career exploration involves learning broadly about the world of work and the self, whereas specific career exploration involves an in-depth investigation focused on aligning one's perceptions of self and career prospects. The goal of the current study was to validate the structure of career exploration over time as being composed of diversive and specific forms. The study was conducted on a diverse sample of 308 college and work-bound youth, 19-22 years old, who were assessed annually three times. Structural equation modeling was used to test a longitudinal measurement model and the structural relationships corresponding to the noted distinction between the forms of exploration. Associations between exploration and several additional indicators of career development were further assessed. The results support the theoretically derived distinction between diversive and specific career exploration and demonstrate that they are differentially linked to career indecision, confidence, and planning. Implications for research and practice are offered in light of the results.
Porfeli E J; Skorikov V B
Journal of Career Assessment
2010
2010-02
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072709340528" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072709340528</a>