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3 PERSPECTIVES ON CAREER DEVELOPMENT

3 PERSPECTIVES ON CAREER DEVELOPMENT. C. R. Doherty 2002 Quinsigamond Community College. CAREER DEVELOPMENT. LINEAR MODELS Sequential,Traditional, Individualism ECOLOGICAL MODELS Intersections of Individual and Environment BLENDED MODEL

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3 PERSPECTIVES ON CAREER DEVELOPMENT

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  1. 3 PERSPECTIVES ON CAREER DEVELOPMENT • C. R. Doherty 2002 Quinsigamond Community College

  2. CAREER DEVELOPMENT • LINEAR MODELS Sequential,Traditional, Individualism • ECOLOGICAL MODELS • Intersections of Individual and Environment • BLENDED MODEL Individual, Life Roles, Current Trends (Societal and Work)

  3. Factors to Consider in Career Development • 3 out of 4 college students express uncertainty about their major. • Students graduating from high school today will change jobs 10 to 15 times over the course of their working lives and change careers as many as 3 or 4 times.

  4. Factors to Consider • 60% of today's high school students will work in jobs which do not yet exist. • 90% of all jobs in 2000 will require some knowledge of a computer. * Occupations requiring an associate's degree or more education will account for 40 percent of total job growth from 1998 to 2008.

  5. Factors to Consider • Since 1993, close to 20 million new jobs have been created. Eighty-one percent of the job growth was in industry/occupation categories paying above-median wages. • In five years, almost half of all workers will be employed in industries that produce or are intensive users of information technology. • Technology and change are driving the need for continuous skill development and life-long learning everywhere.

  6. Factors to Consider * Periodic unemployment will be experienced by most of the working population at some time in their lives. * Career and Life Role transitions will be everyone’s concern. * There is a need for employees to take responsibility for their own career development and become “career resilient.”

  7. Factors to Consider • "the world of work is one which involves real people -- with attitudes, hopes, fears, foibles, talents and ambitions; with families to feed and mortgages to pay." • A single parent with one child in Massachusetts needs to earn between $13.48 and $15.28 per hour to earn a living wage.

  8. Linear- Work and Career Success: Individualism & Autonomy Knowledge of SELF Knowledge of CAREERS RESEARCH & PLAN SUCCESS DECISION Economic Security Schools Based on Assessments THE DECISION Values Job Market Skills/ Abilities Written/Online Materials Academic RETIREMENT Employment Informational Interviews Interests

  9. Ecological Models Interactions Between Individual & Environment FRIENDS WORK COMMUNITY SIX LIFE ROLES SELF PARTNER FAMILY Source: Hughes & Graham

  10. Ecological Models: Subsystems that influence decisions & behaviors Self interacting with Home Work School Influences Self Neighborhood Media Ideological Components Interacting with Self Societal norms Societal values Stereotypes Source: Bronfenbrenner

  11. Ecological Models: Life Span Spiral Self Need for Self-Esteem is the Energizing Force that drives 3 intersecting spirals: - Family - Work - Self Source: Juhasz Work Family

  12. BLENDED Career Development Model

  13. New Career Development Models • Gender - Women • Multiple Roles and Demand • Caught between 2 Generations • Own Child-care needs • Needs of parents • Traditional career choices • More flexibility • Less money (Career Development Quarterly, June 2002)

  14. New Career Development Models • Race/Culture/Ethnicity • What is Realistic? • Perceived control of one’s career choice • Careers Today – perpetual state of transitions • Redefinition of Success (Career Development Quarterly, June 2002)

  15. Other Sources -Self-Sufficiency Study for Massachusetts, Wider Opportunities for Women, 1998. -Career Directions -Flexible Work by Edna Murphy -Leah and Chakiris

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