Chapter 7 Career Development

the idea that individuals develop careers in stages (starts in infancy and goes till death), career decisions not isolated from other aspects of their lives. Life Space is finding balance between career and prospective life direction/goal or all focus on career.

• 1) Idea of school (education needed to attain work role)
• 2) Work (actual work being done)
• 3) Home (where you live in relation to work, neighborhood/community, what you can afford)
• 4) Family (in relation to career)
• 5) Community (involvement)
• 6) Leisure (having fun)

• 1) Growth (develop realistic work self-concept)
• 2) Exploration (crystallize career preference)
• 3) Establishment (stabilize in a job)
• 4) Maintenance (hold job, update and re-evaluate)
• 5) Disengagement (decelerate workload, shift energy to other life pursuits)

Current job skill no longer useful

pursuit of another career, go back to school for re-training.