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Constructing careers: actor, agent, and author
Author(s) -
Savickas Mark L.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2011.tb01109.x
Subject(s) - career counseling , coaching , psychology , construct (python library) , agency (philosophy) , intervention (counseling) , cognitive information processing , career development , action (physics) , meaning (existential) , vocational education , counseling psychology , career portfolio , career education , pedagogy , applied psychology , social psychology , sociology , psychotherapist , social science , physics , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , computer science , programming language
When individuals seek career counseling, they have stories to tell about their working lives. The aim of career construction theory is to be comprehensive in encouraging employment counselors to listen for a client's career story from the perspectives of actor, agent, and author. Taking multiple perspectives on career stories enables counselors to offer clients a fitting intervention, whether it is vocational guidance for action, career education and coaching for agency, or career counseling to construct meaning.