Introduction to Career Counselling &amp; Coaching

Reid, Hazel

doi:10.4135/9781473958142

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“…It has often been pointed out that the notion of career itself is not fixed; it changes over time and according to context (Reid, 2016). Research on young people's attitudes towards career suggests that the word evokes some ambivalence, sometimes seeming too formal or demanding to accept fully (Moore & Hooley, 2012).…”

Section: Defining Careermentioning

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Are young people aged 16-19 using or expecting to use the gig economy for their careers?

Galfalvi¹,

Hooley²,

Neary³

2020

NICEC Journal

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Amid growing precarity and zero hour contracts, the 'gig economy' represents a new way of working mediated by web technology. Workers can sign up to a work platform – a website or smartphone program that manages the work automatically – and take on work at the tap of a button. Some platforms manage labour, such as driving for Uber or delivering food for Deliveroo, while others manage retail activity, such as Ebay or Etsy.<br/> Recent research has shown that a significant number of people are using platform work to earn money, with over half being young people aged 16-34. While there are some data regarding satisfaction levels and attractors, there is little research examining specific age segments of workers, or the relationship between platform work and career.<br/> Using data from focus group interviews with school and Further Education college students, this paper will discuss findings from research investigating how young people in England aged 16-19 perceive the gig economy and whether they feel that it will be relevant to their careers, with a view to discussing whether it may be necessary to include in careers education programmes or guidance.<br/> The interview data indicate that these participants were occasionally using platforms to make money, and a few were earning regularly, usually on retail platforms. While some interviewees appreciated the autonomy and flexibility promised by gig economy work, the uncertainty, perceived low status, and lack of career progression prevented them from taking it seriously as a career option. Instead, they preferred traditional forms of work that provide more stability and organisational support - an increasingly rare commodity in a labour market that is changing rapidly in the opposite direction. We conclude that while there may be little value in giving detailed individual guidance on the gig economy, it could be valuable to use it as a way of teaching young people about the labour market and different types of employment

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Section: Defining Careermentioning

confidence: 99%

Are young people aged 16-19 using or expecting to use the gig economy for their careers?

Galfalvi¹,

Hooley²,

Neary³

2020

NICEC Journal

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“…There is currently increasing criticism regarding this individualist (or voluntaristic) viewpoint and approach and the limited space or scope that many actually have in determining their own fate is now being emphasized in the literature (Sultana, 2014;Reid, 2016;Leach, 2017). The discourse that is developing in opposition to this individualist approach is the deterministic viewpoint that people are either merely pawns, or at the very least completely dependent on the psychosocial and cultural-economic powers that be in societal and organizational contexts.…”

Section: Agencymentioning

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The role of imagination in emergent career agency

Muijen¹,

Lengelle

Meijers³

et al. 2018

Australian Journal of Career Development

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Career agency is a vaguely defined concept that is usually explained in terms of cultivating self-reliance, while it is at the same time being critiqued as a difficult to reach goal as a result of societal pressures. Instead of viewing agency through the lens of these opposing viewpoints, focused on people either being self-reliant or determined by outside forces, this article proposes a ‘medial’ perspective on agency. People can be assisted to develop agency when it is conceptualized as an emergent phenomenon that can be fostered through imaginative and playful writing, where individuals are invited to engage in a field where an expansion of both symbolic and material space can be promoted. The dangers of an instrumental focus on career management skills are outlined and the philosophical considerations underlying the idea of imagination as fostering agency are explained.

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“…For instance career coaching is evident across many organisations, public and private, so there is a further question about who will be giving career guidance and counselling in the future (Reid, 2016) and how the current merged professional organisation in the UK (the Career Development Institute) will influence this. If career counsellors are to be part of the relevant service; i.e.…”

Section: Negotiating a Practitioner Biography: What Should Career Pramentioning

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“…Too often in career guidance the space for exploration is limited, indecision is seen as a bad thing, rather than a desirable space for reflection and consideration. Savickas (2011) A further misunderstanding might be that narrative approaches are for the advantaged, articulate and 'mature' client, but there is more than one way to tell a story -to use narrative in career counselling, aside from the 1-1 interview (Nota & Rosier, 2015); including using the creative arts (Lengelle and Meijers, 2014;Reid, 2016). The practitioners in our project experimented in using the narrative career counselling model with some success, among young people in different social and economic contexts, with varying educational levels and verbal attainment.…”

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Negotiating professional and personal biographies in a liquid world: creating space for reflexive innovation in career counselling

Reid

West

2016

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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This paper explores the constraints to innovative, creative and reflexive careers counselling in an uncertain neo-liberal world. We draw on previously reported research into practitioners' use of a narrative model for career counselling interviews in England and a Europe-wide auto/biographical narrative study of non-traditional learners in universities. The latter draws on a number of narrative interviews with an asylum seeker, to debate whether such a way of working with people, 'in a clinical style', offers contextualised insight into people's struggles to construct a career and a methodology for doing so. The paper also examines the difficulties of creating a 'good enough' professional, psychosocial space for experimentation with creative approaches in a marketised guidance world, where more is expected from less.

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Introduction to Career Counselling & Coaching

Cited by 13 publications

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Are young people aged 16-19 using or expecting to use the gig economy for their careers?

Are young people aged 16-19 using or expecting to use the gig economy for their careers?

The role of imagination in emergent career agency

Negotiating professional and personal biographies in a liquid world: creating space for reflexive innovation in career counselling

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