Counselling Young Adults to Become Career Adaptable and Career Resilient

Corso, Jennifer Jordan Del

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66954-0_11

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“…Career control is important for being able to cope with uncertainty (Del Corso, 2013). It manifests as being decisive about career goals (Savickas, 2002).…”

Section: Career Construction Theory and Workplace Preparationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The final element that is vitally important is career confidence. This is particularly useful as it enables an individual to better deal with turbulent careers and setbacks such as unemployment, which are relatively common in the modern workforce (Del Corso, 2013). According to a recent study by Jackson and Wilton (2017), graduating students demonstrated considerable confidence in their own abilities and skills regarding future employability.…”

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Career planning and workforce preparation during economic downturn: perceptions of graduating business students

Benati

Lindsay²,

O'Toole

et al. 2023

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PurposeTo gather insight into how graduating business students are preparing for the workplace and their future careers and how this has been impacted by COVID-19.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 144 business students at an Australian university who had recently completed an internship and were nearing graduation took part in the study. Group A was surveyed before COVID-19 had emerged and Group B undertook their internships during a COVID-19 lockdown when the related economic downturn had become apparent. The responses were analysed using career construction theory (CCT).FindingsThis study concludes that graduating students do not generally place greater emphasis on career planning in times of economic downturn. However, they do devote more effort to job search and networking activities. They also display more career decisiveness and are less willing to seek out information about potential careers or their suitability for them. Their confidence in embarking on a career was not impacted.Research limitations/implicationsThis enables us to form a more complete picture of how graduating students perceive their work-readiness and the action they feel is important in order to improve their employability.Practical implicationsThis has implications for career practitioners and employers of graduates as it adds to the knowledge of employability and the decision-making process in times of economic crisis and is particularly important for the tertiary education sector as it seeks to better target initiatives to aid employability in graduates.Originality/valueThe results increase the understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on early career development and argue that early-career decision-making is a specific area requiring investigation.

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“…Career control is important for being able to cope with uncertainty (Del Corso, 2013). It manifests as being decisive about career goals (Savickas, 2002).…”

Section: Career Construction Theory and Workplace Preparationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Career Construction Theory and Workplace Preparationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Career planning and workforce preparation during economic downturn: perceptions of graduating business students

Benati

Lindsay²,

O'Toole

et al. 2023

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“…CCT fits well to describe how trauma experiences can impede life and career narratives of survivors and how this disruption may affect career adaptability. The second reason we used CCT to guide our study was because the target population consisted mostly of young adults (del Corso, 2017). The world of work is rapidly changing and unstable.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…CCT with its focus on career adaptability provides a way of assessing and providing assistance to young adults who may need support navigating past challenges and career decision‐making process (Savickas, 2013). CCT and its practical application in career construction counseling offer a most suitable framework for exploring and promoting the career development of young adult women who have survived trauma experiences (del Corso, 2017).…”

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Traumatic Experiences and Female University Students’ Career Adaptability

Kim

Smith

2021

The Career Development Quart

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We examined the influence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on the career development of female university students. Specifically, we predicted that IPV would mediate between ACEs and career adaptability. To test the data of 186 students, we performed structural equation modeling using SPSS and AMOS. Results indicated that ACEs were positively associated with IPV and negatively associated with career adaptability. Although IPV also showed a negative relationship with career adaptability, it did not significantly mediate the relationship between ACEs and career adaptability. We found evidence that childhood trauma can have long-lasting negative consequences on career development. Therefore, need exists for counselors' continued professional development about the influence of trauma on career development, as well as future empirical research with more educationally, ethnically, and culturally diverse samples.

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“…Moreover, a person most often enters this competitive and challenging labour market in the period of emerging adulthood. The ambiguous period of emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2000) is widely accepted by many authors as a transitional period between late adolescence and young adulthood marked by instability and the inability of young people to reach full independence from their parents (Konstam, 2015;Domene, Young, & Wilson, 2019;Hartung & Cadaret, 2017;del Corso, 2017;Briddick, Sensoy-Briddick, & Savickas, 2019;Cohen-Scali & Pouyaud, 2019;Gerryts & Maree, 2019). These young people leave the safe and familiar environment that surrounded them for the past 12 or 16 years of their education and are trying to find a "stable pattern in a life that has suddenly become unfamiliar and unpredictable " (Oishi, 2012, p. 7).…”

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confidence: 99%

Design Thinking Methodology In The Career Development Programme For University Students

Kunac¹,

Krečar²,

Kolega³

2019

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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To many freshmen the process of career decision making seems to be finalized once they have chosen a field of study, but as time goes by their uncertainties rise. Design thinking provides a useful frame for developing extracurricular programme that can help students grow functional and realistic perceptions of their future careers. This study deals with the effects and potential usefulness of a career development programme implemented at the University of Applied Sciences VERN' (Zagreb, Croatia). 19 students took part in the Programme and were tested before and after its implementation on four measures -Career-related Negative and Positive Affect, Career Development Self-Efficacy, Dysfunctional Beliefs and Career Uncertainty. In order to exclude possible external factors that could affect students, a control group of 20 students of the same age and gender was also tested. At the beginning of the Programme the treatment group showed less dysfunctional career beliefs than control group, and that difference stayed stable at the second measurement point. After the Programme the treatment group showed significant decrease in Career-related Negative Affect. No significant differences were found on the remaining measures. The lack of effects on other variables could be attributed to the research methodology (treatment group consisting of highly motivated, initially different individuals) but also stresses the need of programme modification for the next generation.

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Counselling Young Adults to Become Career Adaptable and Career Resilient

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Career planning and workforce preparation during economic downturn: perceptions of graduating business students

Career planning and workforce preparation during economic downturn: perceptions of graduating business students

Traumatic Experiences and Female University Students’ Career Adaptability

Design Thinking Methodology In The Career Development Programme For University Students

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