Career Studies

Many people ask me about resources, articles and further study in careers, so I have decided to collate resources and researchers on this page for those in the career community who are interested.

Interesting to read -

Career Paths in State of Flux - Margie Elley Brown, NZ Herald August 11, 2010.

Career Management Resources

My area of study, predominantly career management theory, is not widely taught, and at present I am doing a survey to find out who is teaching it and where. I’m also interested in who is doing study in career areas.

In the meantime, on this page you can find links to some of the books and articles that I rely on, and articles that are here in answer to requests from those in the field. Also included are my articles and presentations.

CDANZ Conference July 2010 Research as Transformational Practice. My tips (in a nutshell) are fall in love with some theory (the bit that really fascinates you) use it for higher level study or research, then use it to enhance your practice! Life history methodology is made for the counsellor, because listening to peoples stories is what we do.

Bookshelf

Some of the books I own and constantly use for Career Management theory:

Arthur, M. B., Hall, D. T., & Laurence, B. S. (Eds.), (1989). Handbook of career theory. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Arthur, M. B., Inkson K., & Pringle J. (1999). The new careers: Individual action and economic change. London: Sage Publications Ltd.
Arthur, M. B., & Rousseau, D. M. (Eds.). (1996). The boundaryless career: A new employment principle for a new organisational era. New York: Oxford University Press.
Collin, A. & Young, R. (Eds.) (2000). The future of career. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hall, D. T. (2002). Careers in and out of organizations. California: Sage Publications.
Harrington, B & Hall, D.T. (2007) Career Management & Work Life Integration-Using self assessment to navigate contemporary careers. California: Sage Publications.
Inkson, Kerr (2007) Understanding Careers – the metaphors of working lives. California: Sage Publications.
Kanter, R. M.(1989). When giants learn to dance. New York: Simon & Schuster
Marshall, J. (1995) Women managers moving on. London: Routledge.
Peiperl, M., Arthur, M. B., Goffee, R., & Morris, T. (2000). Career frontiers – new conceptions of working lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Schein, E.H. (1993) Career Anchors. California: Pfeiffer & Co (Revised edition 2004)
Sheehy, G. (1996). New Passages: mapping your life across time. London: Harper Collins.
Spoonley, P., de Bruin, A. & Dupuis A. (Eds.), Work and working in Twenty-first century New Zealand. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
Vaill, P. B. (1996). Learning as a way of being. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

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Articles

This list represents the articles I have been asked for over time, on various topics, and I will add more as requested:

Women’s Careers

Gallos, J. (1989). Exploring women’s development. In M. B. Arthur, D. T. Hall and B. S. Laurence (Eds.), Handbook of career theory (pp. 110-132). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

New Careers

Hall, D. T. (2004). The protean career: a quarter century journey. Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 65,1,1-13.
Hall, D.T. (1996). Protean careers of the 21st century. Academy of Management Executive, 10, 4, 8-16.
Hall, D. T., & Mirvis, P. (1995). The new career contract: developing the whole person at midlife and beyond. Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 47, 3, 269-289.
Jones, C. (1996). Careers in project networks: the case of the film industry. In M. B. Arthur & D. M. Rousseau (Eds.), The boundaryless career. A new employment principle for a new organisational era (pp 58-75). New York: Oxford University Press.
Mirvis, P. H., & Hall, D. T. (1994). Psychological success and the boundaryless career. Journal of Organizational Behaviour, 15(4), 365-380.
Saxenian, A. (1996). Beyond boundaries: open labour markets and learning in Silicon Valley. In Arthur, M.B. & Rousseau, D.M. (Eds.), The boundaryless career: A new employment principle for a new organisational era (pp. 23-39). New York: Oxford University Press.
Shepard, H. A. (1984). On the realization of human potential: a path with a heart. In M. B. Arthur, L. Bailyn, D. J. Levinson, & H. A. Shepard (Eds.), Working with careers. New York: Columbia University, Graduate School of Business.

‘Renovating’ career psychology for the new environment

Savickas, M. (1997). Career adaptability: an intergrative construct for life-span, life space theory. The Career Development Quarterly; Alexandria; March.
Savickas, M. (2000). Renovating the psychology of careers for the 21st century. In Collin, A. & Young, R. (Eds.), The future of career (pp.53-68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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New Zealand Research Projects /Publications

There are a number of research projects/groups of interest to those in our field. Two to watch are the Education Employment Linkages project, and the research available from the Massey University Labour Market Dynamics Research teams.

Education Employment Linkages (Paul Dalziel, Jane Higgins, Karen Vaughn)
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Massey University Labour Market Dynamics Publications Research Reports.
Google this for the link. This provides a wide range of Labour Market research publications, including work on young people’s transitions.

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Further Study & Survey

Interested in higher level papers and qualifications in career theory? Who’s teaching/undertaking these? Where?

I am collecting data on the study that is being undertaken in the careers field, and I am also interested in what people would like to know/study more about. This is not an evaluation of current programmes, my focus is on a 'state of the nation' regarding the learning taking place in the field of careers at present, and the interests of those who have graduated from existing programmes.

What I would like on a email from you is the following

name and location
where you are enrolled, or have been enrolled in the past
where you would like to apply your learning/or are applying it at present
what aspects you are now most engaged by (eg career education, career development theory, career management theory, individual theorists and ideas?)
what further areas would you like to know more about?
what higher level qualifications/papers you are considering (if any)?

The CAPABLE process.

To help anyone (or their clients) advancing their qualifications through Assessment of Prior Learning, here is a useful brochure from the Otago Polytechnic CAPABLE unit - download PDF

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