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Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Career Counseling Young Adults in the Aftermath of the Great Recession
Author(s) -
Greenleaf Arie T.
Publication year - 2014
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.2161-1920.2014.00049.x
Subject(s) - career counseling , great recession , face (sociological concept) , psychology , recession , population , medical education , pedagogy , sociology , labour economics , medicine , economics , social science , demography , keynesian economics
Because of the changes in the economy hastened by the Great Recession, recent college graduates face unprecedented challenges finding employment in the current labor market. In this new economic era, Krumboltz's (2009) happenstance learning theory provides college career counselors with a practical framework for helping students learn how to engage in proactive career behaviors, evaluate opportunities as they arise, and initiate actions to benefit from them. A 6‐component framework is provided to guide college career counselors working with this population.