“How did I end up here?” – a brief overview of career choice theory

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“How did I end up here?” – a brief overview of career choice theory
Theories of career choice attempt to explain how we end up in the work we do. Some theories emphasise our agency (control over the decisions made), some challenge the very notion of choice (emphasising restrictions placed on us by external structures). Other theories try to integrate both psychological and sociological perspectives to reflect an interplay […]

Sep 2

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The Human Brain: a summary of recent research and theory

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The tools of Neuroscience Our understanding of how the brain works has greatly increased over recent years due to advancements in brain imaging technology such as MRI scans (magnetic resonance imaging) which can track changes in brain structure and function. Videos can now be taken to monitor the brain activity when people are engaged in […]

Dec 2

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Career Management and the gaming analogy

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Games such as Minecraft can make excellent analogies for communicating the nature of career and career management to young people (and adult gaming enthusiasts!). The traditional concept of career as a ladder may exist for a few but many face a more complex future, awash with choices and unpredictable twists and turns. The one-off decision […]

Oct 30

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Telephone and Remote Platform Approaches to Career Development

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This link will take you to video excerpts from a workshop delivered by Liane Hambly in Dublin 2015 exploring how  face-to-face guidance skills can be transferred to other media. The audience are Guidance Counsellors who primarily work with adults. video on telephone guidance NCGE In addition to this topic the NCGE site has an interesting on-line professional […]

Sep 9

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transpersonal career coaching

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what on earth? Transpersonal means ‘beyond the personal’ and is a systems approach which recognizes the interconnectedness of individuals, families, communities and organizations. ‘It recognizes and works with yearning ingrained in the human psyche for something beyond the personal, beyond the material and everyday. This may be expressed in many different ways, through religious or […]

Apr 26

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Prayer, meditation and contemplation

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Prayer Meditation and Contemplation
This paper reflects on the findings of a small-scale study into how people who define as having faith navigate career decisions, in particular the role of imaginative contemplation used in prayer and meditation.

Feb 3

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Technician or Artist?

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The term ‘reflective practice’ is much used and little understood. It is not the ability to describe one’s feelings about one’s experience. Rather, it is the ability to reflect on one’s experiences, to analyse what happened, why it happened and the learning gained. But it can even mean more than this – according to Schön […]

Feb 2

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