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Stylish Adaptation –
career decision making styles and
adaptability dimensions
John Hannon
What’s my role?
Give them lots of information
Choices, choices….How do we adapt?
Values
But they’re only young…
Growing up and taking control
You can’t drive a parked car!
Transitions
Arnold (1997) ‘An event or non-event resulting in a change of
assumption about oneself and the world, thus requiring
corresponding changes in one’s behaviour and relationships”
Parkes (1971) - psychosocial transition
 Only a transition if so defined by the person experiencing
it
To understand meaning we need to examine:
 Anticipated v unanticipated v non-event
 Perspective
 Context
 Impact
How are careers like this guy?
Career Adaptability
 The capability of an individual to make a series of
successful transitions where the labour market,
organisation of work and underlying occupational and
organisational knowledge bases may be subject to
considerable change (Bimrose et al., 2011)
 ...individual’s readiness and resources for coping with
current and anticipated tasks, transitions, traumas in
their occupational roles that, to some degree large or
small, alter their social integration (Savickas and
Porfeli, 2010: 3-4).
What’s the moral of this?
Evaluative
•Ongoing self - evaluation / selfappraisal (of needs, values, abilities...)
•Approach - base decisions on
emotional and practical
considerations. Always learning...
•Uncertainty and ambiguity
•Feel able to start identifying longer
term goals…and growing in
confidence
Aspirational
•Identify vaguely focused but distant
career goals…happy to pursue interim
goals/jobs to ‘get by’.
•Goals often highly competitive /
challenging… sacrifice is OK
Approach - heart rules head.
•Personal and career decisions
intertwined
Strategic
•Very focused.
•Base decisions on assessment of
options and like planning.
•Approach - rational.
•See career as something you
rationally construct, have welldeveloped problem-solving skills.
Opportunistic
•Take opportunities that present
themselves, often unexpectedly.
•Can cope with high levels of
uncertainty/ambiguity.
•Reluctant to close off options.
•Approach - intuition, what ‘feels right’
and resist planning.
•Flexible.
Bimrose et al. (2008)
Career Decision
Making Style
Control
Decisive, self discipline + regulation, upbeat, negotiate
STRATEGIC – I don’t think anyone has influence over me...
I can still try and get more experience, more qualifications and
more of everything...
ASPIRATIONAL – ‘there’s lots of choice out there, I just don’t think
it applies to me. I’m kind of like stuck on this path because I
want to be there’
EVALUATIVE –’trying to see around corners’. Procrastination?
OPPORTUNISTIC –I am decisive but I am very unpredictable, I
think that’s the way. I need to kind of go yes, I will go for it. I
don’t really go…oh no…..I don’t know if that’s a good or bad
thing.
Curiosity
Inquisitive, explore, seek info., experiment, future, reflect
STRATEGIC - So that was the only careers activities
that I did because I was quite confident starting so I
really didn’t bother to do anything else
ASPIRATIONAL – ‘freaking out’ – very limited
EVALUATIVE – Very limited, thinking too much
OPPORTUNISTIC – Why? Sure it will happen
anyway!
Confidence
• Self efficacy, overcoming obstacles/problem solving,
learn new skills, SE coping with transition
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STRATEGIC – Absolutely!
ASPIRATIONAL – fate
EVALUATIVE – yes ...seems to improve for interview 2
OPPORTUNISTIC – yes some so much for one - issues
around feeling young, not ready...
Transitions
Turning points (Levinson, 1986; Hodkinson and
Sparkes, 1997)
Opportunity for growth and transformation
Letting go of self, learning new roles (Schlossberg
and Goodman, 2012)
River and raft metaphor – chaotic power beyond
our control v adventure requiring readiness and
vigilance
Contextual – meanings are personally
constructed out of experience
Where’s your role?
Someone else will do it for me
If I continue to sit in the car
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