Young people producing careers and identities

2006

New Zealand ordinators, business owners, advisers, and army officers who have generously granted us access to their premises. Many have also facilitated our meetings with their employees, trainees, and students, and helped us to negotiate the codes and protocols of their particular study, training, and employment pathways.

Group 2: Constrained noncollege youth. At the other extreme are the youth whose life contexts are circumscribed by limited resources, family obligations, strong parochial attachments, and other factors that restrict the content and scope of their choices. Mostly of lower socioeconomic status, this group has limited role models and sources of career information. Their lives are often marked by insecurity brought about by economic crises, unemployment, illness, and death.

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International concern with the effective transition of young people from secondary education to working life, and the role of career guidance in supporting this transition, is reflected in recent OECD investigations. In Australia there is a wide diversity of career ...

The International Centre for Guidance Studies is a specialist research centre with interests in career and career guidance. It undertakes diverse activity including the evaluation of learning or guidance programmes, comprehensive literature reviews, impact assessments and strategic projects that inform the development of national services. Much of iCeGS' work is applied research to support the delivery and improvement of services. iCeGS also undertakes blue skies research that examines the theoretical and conceptual basis of career and career guidance.

2009

In our Career-Guidance-Project, initially meant for adolescents, we were confronted with emerging adults with career choice problems. Our intervention protocol did not work well for these older clients. To get more insight in the differences between both groups and the needs of the emerging adult clients we compared psychological, identity and coping characteristics of adolescents and emerging adults with career choice problems. We found that both groups show above average psychological problems and inadequate coping strategies, but that for the emerging adults these problems appeared more serious. The adolescents but not the emerging adults scored below average in variables that were directly related to exploration and chosing skills. In a case-study of an emerging adult we illustrate the type career choice guidance that was in our project representative for this group. Career choice in emerging adulthood 3 Introduction In this paper, we will address career choice problems in adole...

2010

This paper seeks to help increase understanding about the complexity of the processes through which young people come to formulate their aspirations and their ideas about future occupations. In so doing, it argues that there is a potentially important and influential role that might be played by employer engagement with education, not least in terms of helping to make particular areas of work more ‘thinkable’ for young people.

2008

Education Inquiry

This special issue focuses on young people's career choices and career learning, as well as societal governing and interventions targeting youth. The articles emanate from the cross-disciplinary, international conference Transitions, career learning and career management skills-Multidisciplinary and critical perspectives, which was held at Stockholm University in October 2017. An important aim of the conference was to bring together and stimulate exchange between researchers from the commonly separated research fields of youth transitions, career learning and counselling, as well as vocational education and training (VET), respectively. Young people's career choices and school-to-work transitions became prioritised matters

Take three young people, each around the age of 24, living in the same street.

Journal of Adolescent …, 2008

Career development theories suggest that social-contextual experiences are influential in individuals' career interests, aspirations, and skill development and may be a source of gender and ethnic differences in certain career fields. In this mixed methods study, we examine the supportive and obstructive career-related experiences of 13 men and 13 women (modal age 25). Interviews focused primarily on the pathway toward or away from an information technology (IT) career. Thematic coding indicated that parents were mostly supportive, while experiences in school and work occasionally made individuals reconsider their career plans. Social influences often changed developmentally as participants entered full-time jobs. Gendered participation in IT was often attributed to women's perception that it is a male-oriented field.