Transcript Career Development Models

Career Development
Models
Theory and Practice
What is Career Development?
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Career Development:
The interaction of psychological,
sociological, economic, physical and
chance factors that shape the sequence
of education, training, occupations or
jobs that a person may engage in
throughout a lifetime.
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Structural Career Development
Theory
Theory of Motivation and Personality - Maslow
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Needs are necessary for maintaining life, and can be
arranged in hierarchal order from lowest to highest.
As one need is met, capacity to address and meet
‘higher needs’ is increased.
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Structural Career Development
Theories:
Theories of Occupational Choice
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Self Actualization
Self-Esteem
Belongingness
Safety
Survival
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Developmental Career
Development Theories
Donald Super (Life-Span Life-Space)
A Life Span model comprised of five developmental stages:
 Growth-fantasy based
 Exploration-trial occupations
 Establishment-decide and advance
 Maintenance-hold on to hard earned gains
 Disengagement-- decreased work participation
And nine major life roles
(1) Child, (2) student, (3) leisure, (4) citizen, (5) worker,
(6) spouse, (7) homemaker, (8) parent, and (9) pensioner.
Decision points occur before and at the time of taking on a
new role or giving up an old role, or making significant
changes in nature of existing role.
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Developmental Career
Development Theories
Super’s Life-Career Rainbow
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Developmental Career
Development Theories
Super’s 6 factors for “Career Maturity”
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Awareness of the need to plan ahead
Having decision-making skills
Having knowledge and use of information resources
Having general career information
Having general information about the world of work
Having detailed information about occupations of
preference
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Developmental Career
Development Theories
Commitment
Marcia (1980)
Identity
Foreclosure
Identity
Achievement
Identity
Diffusion
Identity
Moratorium
exploration
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Developmental Career
Development Theories
Marcia (1980) cont.
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Identity Diffusion - the status in which the adolescent does not
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Identity Foreclosure - the status in which the adolescent seems
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Identity Moratorium - the status in which the adolescent is
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Identity Achievement - the status in which the adolescent has
have a sense of having choices; he or she has not yet made (nor is
attempting/willing to make) a commitment
willing to commit to some relevant roles, values, or goals for the future.
Adolescents in this stage have not experienced an identity crisis. They tend to
conform to the expectations of others regarding their future (e. g., allowing a
parent to determine a career direction) As such, these individuals have not
explored a range of options.
currently in a crisis, exploring various commitments and is ready to make
choices, but has not made a commitment to these choices yet.
gone through an identity crisis and has made a commitment to a sense of
identity (i.e., certain role or value) that he or she has chosen
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Decision Making Models
Cognitive Information Processing
Pyramid of Information Processing Domains
Metacognitions
Executive
Proce ssing
Domain
CASV E Cycle
Self
Knowledge
Occupational
Knowledge
Deci sion-Making
Skills Domain
Knowledge
Domains
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Decision Making Models
Cognitive Information Processing
Pyramid of Information Processing Domains
Thinking about
my decision
making
Client Version
Knowing how I
make decisions
Knowing
about myself
Knowing about
my options
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Decision Making Models
CASVE Cycle
CASVE (kuh-sah-veh)
Communication,
 Analysis,
 Synthesis,
 Valuing, and
 Executing.
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Decision Making Models
CASVE Cycle
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Decision Making Models
CASVE Cycle
Client Version
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Structural Career Development Theory
Theories of Occupational Choice
Deci & Ryan
Socioeconomic Career Development Theory
People need to work for money so that they
can purchase goods to meet their needs.
Emphasis is placed on the marketplace and
on supply and demand factors as they
interact.
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