Life Design: A Paradigm for Innovating Career Counselling in Global Context

Hartung, Paul J.

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“…Career guidance in an educational context should help students to develop and expand efficacy beliefs, and at the same time, to crystallize on themes of educational and career interests wherein they could apply their skills and competencies. Career interests and competencies are important elements of the self‐construction process, but other experiences central to the life‐design tradition should be fully considered as well (Hartung, 2019). Intervention programs guided by the premises and propositions of career construction and adaptability (e.g., concern, control, curiosity, confidence) should help students develop the necessary resourcefulness and sense of agency in facing transitions.…”

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Interest and Competence Flexibility and Decision‐Making Difficulties: Mediating Role of Career Adaptability

Leung

Cheng

2021

The Career Development Quart

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Using the career adaptability framework of Savickas and Porfeli (2012), we examined the relationship of career adaptability to interest and competence flexibility and career decision-making difficulties. Participants were 535 male and 795 female Chinese senior secondary students in Hong Kong. Findings from hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that competence flexibility was associated with fewer career decision-making difficulties and higher levels of career adaptability. Conversely, interest flexibility was associated with more decision-making difficulties and lower levels of career adaptability. Path analyses revealed that career adaptability partially mediated the relationship of competence and interest flexibility with decision-making difficulties. The mediating effects were significant for lack of information and inconsistent information (Gati et al., 1996), but not for readiness. Overall, findings supported the career adaptability framework. Research and practice implications are discussed, especially in relation to the career development needs of students in Chinese communities.

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Interest and Competence Flexibility and Decision‐Making Difficulties: Mediating Role of Career Adaptability

Leung

Cheng

2021

The Career Development Quart

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“…• Acceptance by career counsellors that their allegiance in career counselling should be to promote the best interests of their clients. As there is a global acceptance of merit and importance of integrative approach, and because research has shown conclusively the value of different postmodern approaches to career counselling, there appears to be no excuse for not doing so (Duarte, Paixão, & da Silva, 2019;Hartung, 2019;Maree, 2019a).…”

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The need for contextually appropriate career counselling assessment: Using narrative approaches in career counselling assessment in African contexts

Maree

2020

AJOPA

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“…Life-design interventions could be viewed as the intervention component of CCT (Savickas et al, 2009 ; Hartung, 2019 ). Life-design interventions are outcomes of years of conceptualization and practice efforts by career development scholars internationally to use personal constructs, biographic hermeneutics, and narrative paradigm in career interventions (McMahon et al, 2005 ; Chen, 2011 ; Nota and Rossier, 2015 ; Hartung, 2019 ). Life-design interventions views individuals as proactive meaning-making agents searching for an answer to the key question of “what purpose does work serve in my life?” In order to identify the purposes, life-design interventions cultivates narratability, or the capacity of a person to tell his/her own life story through weaving together meaningful themes from past experiences and future aspirations.…”

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New Frontiers in Computer-Assisted Career Guidance Systems (CACGS): Implications From Career Construction Theory

Leung

2022

Front. Psychol.

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This article addresses the use of computer-assisted career guidance systems (CACGS) in career interventions. Major CACGS developed in the past decades were based on the trait-factor or person-environment fit approaches in their conceptualization and design. The strengths and limitations of these CACGS in addressing the career development needs of individuals are discussed. The Career Construction Theory (CCT) is a promising paradigm to guide the development of new generations of CACGS. The narrative tradition, career adaptability model, and life-design interventions of CCT offer rich conceptual and practical applications that could expand the scope and breadth of career exploration and identity construction through using CACGS. A digital system developed in Hong Kong called Infinity is a case-in-point of a CACGS where users could learn about career planning, engage in self and career construction through using the quantitative and qualitative assessment applications and gamified tools, take career planning actions over time, and communicate with their social supportive systems. Initial findings suggested that users of the system reported lesser decision-making difficulties, higher levels of decision clarity, and better understanding of what is career planning than non-users. Users from high academic achievement schools reported higher levels of career adaptability than their counterparts in schools of similar academic background. Users from low achievement schools reported higher intention to pursue government-supported universities than non-users from schools of similar background. Research and practice implications in schools and organizational settings are discussed.

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Life Design: A Paradigm for Innovating Career Counselling in Global Context

Cited by 16 publications

References 34 publications

Interest and Competence Flexibility and Decision‐Making Difficulties: Mediating Role of Career Adaptability

Interest and Competence Flexibility and Decision‐Making Difficulties: Mediating Role of Career Adaptability

The need for contextually appropriate career counselling assessment: Using narrative approaches in career counselling assessment in African contexts

New Frontiers in Computer-Assisted Career Guidance Systems (CACGS): Implications From Career Construction Theory

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