Post on 03-Jan-2016
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Coherent Career Development
Dave RedekoppLife-Role
Development Group
Kris MagnussonSimon Fraser
University
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Our Modest Little Talk
1 Definition
5 Career Development Trends
5 Career Myths Transformed
4 Fundamental Challenges to Coherence
1 Big Hairy Audacious Conclusion
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Career:
The constellation of life-roles an individual plays over his or her lifetime.
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This is NOT your father’s
Oldsmobile!
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5 Career Development
Trends
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Trend #1
From static to dynamic systems.
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Trend #2
From simple to complex.
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Trend #3
From linear to meandering paths.
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Trend #4
From head to heart.
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Trend #5
From choice (content focus) to confidence
(process focus).
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5 Career Development
Myths Transformed
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Career Development Is ...
... part of education
... sovereign over education
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Career Development Is ...
... a problem
... normal
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Career Development Is ...
... planning for the future
... fluid intentionality
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Career Development Is ...
... the purview of guidance
... everyone’s responsibility
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Career Development Is ...
... bound to fail without a good education
... bound to fail without continuous learning
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4 Fundamental Career Development Challenges
Facing Individuals
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Individual Challenge #1
How do I acquire and then make sense of all of the information
available to me so I can make choices that will benefit me in the future?
Career Literacy
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Individual Challenge #2
How do I find hope? Once found, how do I build and sustain the enthusiasm,
energy and just plain will to be continuously adaptive?
Career Gumption
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Individual Challenge #3
Where do I fit in this world? What is available to me? How do I achieve a balance between
my needs and all of the forces and influences around me?
Career Context
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Individual Challenge #4
How do I make all of these decisions, and take all of these actions, in a way that
allows me to maintain a sense of who I am? How do I take pride in what I do?
Career Integrity
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Putting it Together ...
Creativity and passion – the gumption/integrity nexus – are enabled and enacted on when
we foster career literacy and act in our career context.
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Systems for 21st Century Learning:
Big, Hairy Audacious Conclusion
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Coherent career practice is not a “component” to add to the 21st century learning picture. It is the larger frame
within which the picture is placed.
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Thank you!
kris.magnusson@sfu.ca
liferole@telusplanet.net
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