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Planned Happenstance: Constructing Unexpected Career Opportunities
Author(s) -
Mitchell Kathleen E.,
Levin S.,
Krumboltz John D.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1999.tb02431.x
Subject(s) - career counseling , psychological intervention , career portfolio , intervention (counseling) , cognitive information processing , psychology , career development , career pathways , work (physics) , medical education , process (computing) , applied psychology , public relations , social psychology , medicine , political science , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , psychiatry , operating system
Chance plays an important role in everyone's career, but career counseling is still perceived as a process designed to eliminate chance from career decision making. Traditional career counseling interventions are no longer sufficient to prepare clients to respond to career uncertainties. Work world shifts challenge career counselors to adopt a counseling intervention that views unplanned events as both inevitable and desirable. Counselors need to teach clients to engage in exploratory activities to increase the probability that the clients will discover unexpected career opportunities. Unplanned events can become opportunities for learning.