Coherent Career
Development
Kris Magnusson
Simon Fraser
University
Dave Redekopp
Life-Role Development
Group
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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 liferoles 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
Century Learning:
Big, Hairy Audacious
Conclusion
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“component” to add to the 21 century
learning picture. It is the larger frame
within which the picture is placed.
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Thank you!
kris.magnusson@sfu.c
a
liferole@telusplanet.net
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