Effectiveness of career counseling: A one-year follow-up

Perdrix, Sophie; Stauffer, Sarah D.; Masdonati, Jonas; Massoudi, Koorosh; Rossier, Jérôme

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2011.08.011

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“…Pervious research found the CDMP to be highly stable over a one-year period, with a median within-participant correlation of .81 across the 12 dimensions (Gati & Levin, 2012), whereas research on the CDDQ found that intervention reduces career decision-making difficulties (Fouad, Cotter, & Kantamneni, 2009;Perdrix, Stauffer, Masdonati, Massoudi, & Rossier, 2012), indicating that this construct is more situational. Therefore, in the current study we hypothesized that the CDMP scores would predict the CDDQ scores, and not the other way around.…”

Section: Cross-cultural Analysis Of Career Decision Making 10mentioning

confidence: 98%

Career decision-making profiles and career decision-making difficulties: A cross-cultural comparison among US, Israeli, and Chinese samples

Willner

Gati

Guan

2015

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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Section: Cross-cultural Analysis Of Career Decision Making 10mentioning

confidence: 98%

Career decision-making profiles and career decision-making difficulties: A cross-cultural comparison among US, Israeli, and Chinese samples

Willner

Gati

Guan

2015

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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“…The bidirectional links between career and subjective well-being have been clearly established, with evidence that those thriving in their careers are more than twice as likely to be thriving in their lives overall (Rath & Harther, 2010) and research indicating that constructs at the heart of positive psychology such as strengths, resilience and optimism have been shown to have a positive correlation with positive career outcomes (Harter & Gurley, 2008;Littman-Ovadia & Davidovitch, 2010). Yet despite clear empirical evidence of its potential value, and calls in the literature for a pluralistic approach to career practice (Bevan, 2009;Morrell, 2004) positive psychology is yet to be established at the heart of mainstream career research and practice (Yates, 2015), Research by Perdrix, Stauffer, Masdonati, Massoudi and Rossier (2012) shows that one to one career interventions are consistently cited as the most effective types of intervention in the field. Brown & Lent (2012) acknowledge that counselling interventions may be employed to assist clients to develop the confidence, among other things, necessary to make career choices with the objective of strengthening the confidence to pursue their aspirations.…”

Section: A Positive Career Coaching Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding potential career changers’ experience of career confidence following a positive psychology based coaching programme

Archer

Yates

2017

Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Prac

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractChanges in the labour market over the last decades have led to an increase in the number of career and job changes individuals are likely to face in their working lives. Previous literature indicates that a high level of confidence can help individuals to make career changes. This research involved five participants who took part in a coaching programme prior to changing their careers. The programme consisted of four positive psychology interventions based on a proposal of core confidence as a higher order construct composed of self-efficacy, hope, optimism and resilience. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis showed that participants perceived their career confidence before the programme as low, incorporating negative affect and self-doubt. After the programme participants demonstrated increased career engagement, self-awareness and a positive and optimistic outlook. The analysis revealed that change was effected through the development of hope, change in cognitive processes and coaching as a catalyst. Implications for the definition of career confidence, and for positive psychology and career coaching practice are considered.Key words: career confidence; career change; self-efficacy; hope; optimism; resilience. Practice PointsThis article is aimed at coaches who work with clients who are considering making changes within their careers.The article puts forward a four stage approach to coaching drawn from positive psychology and explicitly aimed at increasing clients' career confidence. The qualitative analysis of the data indicates that the coaching approach has a considerable impact on clients' levels of self-efficacy, hope, optimism and resilience. The findings also explore the construct of career confidence and provide an in depth understanding of the participants' experience of career confidence.The paper provides support for the use of positive psychology interventions in a career coaching context providing: a model for practice  a contribution to our understanding of the construct of career confidence  some evidence of a coaching model which leads to enhance client confidence and motivation 3

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“…Bimrose (2008) observed that counselees found the intervention useful even five years later if it provided access to "specialist information, including local labour market information, details of courses, training and employee opportunities" (p. 62). Perdrix et al (2012) observed that career counselling had a long-term impact and that most counselees did go on to implement their career plans. However, career plans can sometimes be difficult to implement if the contextual and personal constraints are not taken into consideration.…”

Section: Outcomes and Effects Of Cgc Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%