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life design theories
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Savickas's Theory
In modern career guidance there is a shift towards personalized and participatory approaches.
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One prominent theory in this field is Savickas's Career Construction Theory. It emphasizes the importance of personal narrative and active student involvement in the career exploration process.
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This self-reflection helps guide their educational and career choices in a more meaningful and purposeful way.
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Savickas's approach encourages students to reflect on their own experiences, values, and aspirations. By constructing their own career narratives, students gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their career goals.
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The personalized and participatory approach to career guidance empowers students to take an active role in shaping their own futures. It recognizes that each individual has unique talents, interests, and aspirations, and encourages them to explore and pursue career paths that align with their personal values and goals.
Life Design Theory: Shaping Your Career in the 21st Century
The theory also emphasizes adaptability and flexibility, encouraging individuals to be open to change and continuously re-evaluate their career goals.
Personalized and Participatory Approach to Career Guidance
It recognizes that career paths are no longer linear and encourages individuals to actively design and redesign their lives.
The Life Design Theory, developed by Mark Savickas and colleagues, offers a fresh perspective on careers in the 21st century.
Theory Analysis
A key aspect of the theory is the narrative approach, where individuals construct their career paths through storytelling. By reflecting on their experiences, values, and goals, they create a meaningful narrative that guides their career decisions.
Savickas defines guidance as looking at the individual as the sole designer of their journey, “rather than focusing on jobs or moving up the ladder”.
His model is based on the fact that it “allows the individual to become aware of his or her personal characteristics and to develop them in order to choose his or her studies and professional activities in all circumstances of life”. In short, to be active in your life course by learning to manage the unexpected.
"Gone are the days when we made our career in one and the same company, with an internal job and salary evolution. On average, we will all change jobs 12 times in our lives. This is normal, since the world and society as a whole have change".Savickas talks about a “post-corporate” society.
Since the 1970’s - and the first oil shock - big companies have started to stop getting bigger. Add to that the transition from industrialisation to digitalisation and the globalisation of the economy, and a new society is born. The problem is that the concept of a career - and therefore of a dream job - used to meet the needs of large companies. Therefore, we need to change our approach to counseling to adapt it to today's uncertain, unstable and much less predictable world.
What is your dream job? This is a question we have all asked ourselves and the best thing to do might be not to answer it.
The dream job is dead. What if we moved on to life design instead? That is to say, building your career path and your life throughout it rather than betting everything on a decision taken when you were 18. In short, be flexible and agile to better adapt to today's world and our wishes.
Life design is therefore here to help us navigate the current world and its new codes of orientation. This model of orientation has several benefits and goals. The first is to help us structure our narrative identity. That is, to learn how to tell our story. The idea is to write a life story by focusing on the search for coherence and continuity. It makes you aware of your own career and the paths you want to take. And of course, as there is “life” in life design, this story will change over the course of our lives and adapt to our goals.
Another benefit of the life design model is to promote the adaptability of individuals. This means enabling each person to develop the resources to respond to a career made up of uncertainties. This means learning to recognise the opportunities that suit us and to reject the others, accepting to change our objectives according to the period of life we are in, knowing how to define our priorities
Finally, the challenge - and the main difficulty - of this new paradigm of life design is to welcome the unknown and learn to manage uncertainty. It's easier said than done, but it's definitely worth learning more about it.