Ch. 7 - Career Development Flashcards
Trait & Factor Matchig Theory
-EG Williamson based on knowledge of Frank Parsons
- Relies on tests and assessments to match traits, aptitude, and interests with a given occupation
John Holland’s Personality and Environments Career Typology
- 6 domains (hexagon): RIASEC: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional
- Congruence between job and person is emphasized
Donald Super
- Self-concept and developmental stage theory
- Life span, life-space model
Self-concept and career maturity influences one’s career throughout life span - Life rainbow conceptualizes roles as child, student, leisurite, citizen, worker, spouse, homemaker, parent, and pensioner
Anne Roe
- Early childhood needs-theory
- Vocational choice is related to personality development at young age
- Influenced by Freudian psychoanalytic doctrines and Maslow
- Vocational Interest Inventory (VII) and Career Occupational Preference System use Roe’s fields and taxonomy
- Person or non-person oriented?
John Krumboltz
- Learning theory of career counseling (LTCC)
- A social learning theory
- 4 factors can be used to simplify career development process:
1. Genetic endowment and unique abilities
2. Environmental conditions and life events
3 Learning experiences (Pavlovian, social learning theory, or Skinnerian)
4. Task approach skills (problem solving, cognitive responses, emotional patterns
Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad, & Herma
- Developmental approach
- Ages 11 and under = fantasy
- 11-17 = tentative
- 17-early adulthood = realistic
- Original hypothesis that career choice was irreversible was later dropped
Mark Savickas
- Career construction postmodern theory
- Worked with Super
- Critical of most traditional theories
- Rooted heavily in narrative therapy
- Intervention looks at recurring themes to re-author the story
Social cognitive counseling theory (SCCT)
- Focuses on how one’s belief system impacts career choice
Linda Gottfredson
- Theory of circumscription
- Phase 1: Rule out certain jobs not acceptable for gender, sterotypes, and social class and compromise
- Phase 2: Change mind, major, etc. if career path is not truly realistic
- A developmental approach taking one’s childhood into account
- Social space refers to the zone or territory of jobs where he or she fits into society
Edgar H Schein
- Eight career anchors theory
- Career anchors manifiest approx. 5-10 years after a person begins work and guide future career choices
- Career anchors are based on self-concept, abilities, etc.
- Originally 5 anchors, but now 8:
1. Autonomy/independence
2. Security/stability
3. Technical/functional competence
4. General managerial competence
5. Entrepreneurial creativity
6. Service/dedication to a cuase
7. Pure challenge
8. Lifestyle
Glass ceiling phenomenon
Lavender ceiling phenomenon
- Women are limited in terms of how far they can advance
- Same as above for LGBTQ+
- Form of occupational sex-role stereotyping
Most high/middle school students want…
Career guidance
Career interests are more stable…
After college
Dual-career families/couples…
Have less leisure time
Trait-factor career counseling
- Assumes individual’s traits can be measured so accurately the choice of occupation is a 1x thing
- Does not focus on development or career maturity
- Testing is important
Frank Parsons
Father of vocational guidance
Pioneers of developmental approaches
Ginzberg et al.
Super, Tiedeman, O’Hara derive from…
Developmental psychology
Anne Roe’s approach
- Personality approach based on premise that a job satisifies an unconscious need / individual’s needs
Edmund Williamson
Minnesota Occupational Rating Scale
Trait-factor vs. Developmental
TF - no individual change across lifespan
Dev - stages across lifespan
Career choice includenced by
- Genetics
- Parent-child interaction
- Unconscious motivators
- Current needs
- Interests
- Education
- Intelligence