Digital storytelling: a tool for life design career intervention

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nooshin Pordelan ◽  
Simin Hosseinian ◽  
Abdollah Baei Lashaki
Keyword(s):  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Career Intervention ◽  
Life Design

Career counselling with life design in a collectivist cultural context: An action research study

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-76
Author(s):  
Aparna Bhalla ◽  
Gill Frigerio
Keyword(s):  
Career Counseling ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Career Intervention ◽  
Narrative Career Counselling ◽  
Client Responses ◽  
Contextual Adaptation ◽  
Life Design

Large-scale macro forces are restructuring forms of work in urban India creating the need for alternative methods of career counselling. This research explores the application of a US-based approach to constructing careers i.e. Life-Design Career Counseling (i. e., LDC) with two mid-career professionals in India. Data consisted of client responses to different narrative career counselling exercises such as a lifeline activity, a career construction interview and semi-structured feedback interviews. Action research's focus on reflexivity helped integrate theory with practice to contribute to knowledge production and meaningful innovations within practice. Findings from this research underscored the importance of relationship, reflection and sense-making and the need for India to utilise a culturally resonant career intervention. The study holds value for career professionals, in India and beyond where LDC is still unexplored. Moreover, LDC practitioners in non-Western countries and collectivist societies will benefit from a contextual adaptation that encourages focus on client learning.

My Career Story

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Hartung ◽  
Sara Santilli
Keyword(s):  
Latent Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Validity Study ◽  
Career Intervention ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Career Construction ◽  
Life Career ◽  
A Current ◽  
Life Design

My career story (MCS) comprises a self-guided autobiographical workbook designed to simulate career construction counseling. The MCS contains a series of questions from the Career Construction Interview to elicit a life-career story and reveal a life theme that are then related to a current career problem indicated by the workbook user. Reflecting on the answers to the questions aims to promote key life-design goals of adaptability, narratability, intentionality, and action. After describing its development and use, a case illustration and initial preliminary validity study of the MCS is presented. Latent semantic analysis, a method for determining meaning similarity of words and passages within bodies of text, indicated a mean agreement level of .81 between MCS life portraits constructed by participants ( N =10) and those constructed for the participants by experts in career construction counseling. The MCS shows some initial promise for self-guided career intervention to increase self-reflection and ability to tell and enact one’s career story. Future research is needed to support the validity of the MCS workbook.

A review of career interventions from an educational perspective: Have investigations shed any light?

2000 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee-Ann Prideaux ◽  
Peter A. Creed ◽  
Juanita Muller ◽  
Wendy Patton
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Intervention Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Career Intervention ◽  
Career Interventions ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Specific Career ◽  
Education Interventions ◽  
Development Literature

Despite widespread acknowledgement of the importance of career development programs to assist students in their complex transition from school to work, very few specific career education interventions have been objectively evaluated. The aim of this paper is to highlight what the authors consider to be a conspicuous shortfall in the career development literature to date, that is, reports of methodologically sound career intervention studies carried out in actual high school settings. International trends in the world of work are briefly discussed in association with the repercussions these changes are producing for today's youth. The major portion of this article is devoted to a comprehensive review of career intervention studies with particular attention paid to the methodological and theoretical issues that resonate from this review process. Recommendations for future research are proposed.

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