Career Development Flashcards
5 most influential Career Counseling Theories
- Super
- Holland
- Gottfredson
- Krumboltz
- Savickas
Donald Super (Developmental approach to careers)
Characterized as life-span life-space
Career rainbow (see photo)
John Holland 6 personality types (structural)
RIASEC
Realistic: mechanic technician
Investigative: chemist computer programmer
Artistic: artist, editor
Social: teacher, counselor
Enterprising: manager, sales
Conventional: file clerk, accountant
Everyone has all 6 types in varying degrees
environments can be categorized in same 6 categories
Consistency (Holland)
Adjacent pairs of types are more psychologically alike than no adjacent pairs
Differentiation (Holland)
How varried persons types are
Congruence (Holland)
The individual’s type and environment type are the same
Vocational identity (Holland)
High identity individuals are those who have a clear and stable picture of their interests and goals
Linda Gottfredson (Developmental)
Circumscription & Compromise
Individuals circumscribe (narrow down occupations) and compromise (opt out
of unavailable or inappropriate occupations) as they develop.
focuses on the development of an individual’s view of the occupational choices available
Gottfredson’s 4 stages
- Orientation to size and power (3-5)
- Orientation to sex roles (6-8)
- Orientation to social valuation (9-13)
- Orientation to internal unique self (14+)
Young children according to Gottfredson
Tend to choose careers which fit their gender
Preadolescents according to Gottfredson
Choose occupation based on social values and their social class
Teens according to Gottfredson
Choose occupation based on self-awareness and personal characteristics
Zone of acceptable alternatives (Gottfredson)
Identified range of occupational options based on a persons self concept
John Krumboltz (learning theory of career counseling -LTCC)
Focused less on having specific plans for your future and finding opportunities in unplanned events (planned happenstance)
Krumboltz states career development and career decisions involve which 4 things?
- Genetic endowments and special abilities
- Environmental conditions and events
- Instrumental and associative learning experiences
- Task approach skills (problem solving, work habits mcm etc.)
Career beliefs inventory invented by who?
Krumboltz used to identify clients mental barriers preventing them from taking action