Life Design A General Model for Career Intervention in the 21 st Century

Can we design a general model for career intervention in the 21 st century

MODERNITY MODERNITY Person-Environment Fit Theory Intervention Model = Vocational Guidance Pieron

MODERNITY Person-Environment Fit Theory Intervention Model = Vocational Guidance HIGH MODERNITY Career Development Theory Intervention Model = Career Education Pieron Super

WE ARE NOW IN THE MIDST OF THE MOST RAPID TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENT IN ECONOMIC HISTORY.

Dejobbing From Stable Jobs to Temporary Assignments and Time- limited Projects

INSECURE EMPLOYEES TEMPORARYTEMPORARY CONTINGENTCONTINGENT CAUSALCAUSAL CONTRACTCONTRACT PART-TIMEPART-TIME EXTERNALEXTERNAL ATYPICALATYPICAL ADJUNCTADJUNCT

Post-Traditional Employees Employable Life-Long Learners Commitment Character Emotional Labor Adaptive

The New Career Protean Boundaryless Customized Kaleidoscope Portfolio

Individualization of the life course requires Identity Work and Autobiographical Reasoning

Biographicity copes with uncertainties prompted by Vocational Development Tasks Occupational Transitions Work Traumas

Hold onto self in the form of a life story

When the music changes, so must the dance.

FROM IDENTITY < PERSONALITY ADAPTABILITY < MATURITY INTENTIONALITY < DECIDEDNESS NARRATABILITY < SCORES ACTION < BEHAVIOR

Flexibility Employability Commitment Emotional intelligence Life-long learning Identity Adaptability Intentionality Narratability Action Career Construction Theory

Paradigm shift occurs when a model reaches the limits of its science.

Actualization vs. Construction

To be a person is to have a story to tell. Isak Dinesen

I tells a story about me.

Identity more variable than self-concept

Revising Identity

Life Design An identity intervention that cultivates intention and action through story telling.

When people seek counseling they have a story to tell.

Vocational Guidance General Model Enhance Self-Knowledge Increase Occupational Information Match Self to Fitting Occupation

Career Counseling General Model Assess developmental status Orient to next developmental tasks Develop coping attitudes, beliefs, and competencies

Life Design General Model Construct Career Story Reconstruct Plot and Theme Co-Construct Scenario

Construct Listen to client micro-narratives that construct: a.) the episode that prompted counseling b.) goals for counseling

Career as Story

Resume - Sequence

Deconstruct dominating demands or insidious ideas -access different meanings -restart stalled initiatives -open new possibilities

Reconstruct Weave micro- narratives into a macro-narrative, a grand story of career. Turn small stories into an identity narrative.

Reconstruct A macro-narrative -explains the past, -orients to the present, -guides into the future.

Reconstruct An identity narrative highlights the occupational plot and career theme in the sequence of small stories.

Reconstruct The king died, and then the Queen died. The King died, and then the Queen died of grief. E. M. Forster

Reconstruct Emplot the sequence of small stories with explanatory links and causal coherence

Reconstruct -explicit occupational plot - the outer journey

Reconstruct -implicit career theme - the inner journey

Career theme -pattern of meaning - guides behavior

Reconstruct Character arc - progression of theme - how person changes over time

Reconstruct Identity Narrative Occupational plot Career theme Character arc

Co-construct Edit identity narrative -amendments -adjustments -alterations

Co-construct Elaborate life portrait -extend the occupational plot -amplify the career theme -bend the character arc

Co-construct A life portrait that: - explains dislocation -clarifies priorities -mobilizes tendencies -prompts transformation & development

Co-construct A life portrait that: -states intentions for the next scenario -begins action in the new episode

Co-construct A life portrait that: -scripts next scene -brings experience forward -activates new episode

From Intention to Action “Action is eloquence.” -Shakespeare

-Self-making -Identity shaping -Career constructing Action in the world advances

Transformative Learning Tension Attention Intention Extension

Intervention Outcomes Ability to narrate to self and audience a more comprehensible, complex, coherent, and connected identity narrative.

Intervention Outcomes Buoyed by biographical agency Ripe with intention Ready for action Prepared to problem solve Empowered to start new episode

Life Design General Model Construct Career Story Re-construct Plot & Theme Co-Construct Scenario Action

Career Story Interview

Self-making Identity Shaping Career Constructing

Each client authors a biographical bridge that expresses their personal truths and authorizes an identity that transports them into the future.

Life Design A General Model for Career Intervention in the 21 st Century