Counseling Career Drifters. ERIC Digest.

Autor/inn/en	Cahill, Mildred; Martland, Sandra
Institution	ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services, Greensboro, NC.; Canadian Guidance and Counselling Foundation, Ottawa (Ontario).
Titel	Counseling Career Drifters. ERIC Digest.
Quelle	(1995), (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	ERIC Publications; ERIC Digests in Full Text
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Career Change; Career Counseling; Career Planning; Foreign Countries; Job Enrichment; Job Placement; Job Satisfaction; Labor Problems; Labor Turnover; Occupational Aspiration; Occupational Mobility; Persistence; Vocational Adjustment; Vocational Interests; Work Attitudes; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Career changes; Berufswechsel; Karriereplanung; Ausland; Arbeitsplatzgestaltung; Employment service; Employment services; Arbeitsvermittlung; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Berufsproblem; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Berufliche Mobilität; Ausdauer; Personalanpassung; Berufsinteresse; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Kanada
Abstract	Although persistent career change is generally seen as a negative, today's economic reality may force counselors to look differently at clients who move from job to job. This digest summarizes a 3-year study of career drifters and discusses the significance of this study for career counseling. Research identified drifters as individuals who completed high school, who had been out of secondary school for at least 4 years, and who made at least three voluntary changes in either schooling, jobs, or a combination of the two. the literature suggests five types of career drifters: (1) personal/psychological; (2) drifters by necessity; (3) drifters by occupation; (4) multipotential (those reluctant to commit to one career); and (5) questers who have their own definitions of success. The study examined personal aspirations, the meaning of work, the influence of community and family, level of dependency, quester characteristics, person/environment congruency, experience with work, and self-efficacy. Many of these factors were not useful in explaining drifting patterns. Instead, drifting seemed more related to the lack of stable occupational opportunities and other factors. While some drifters have career and job anxiety, others change courses for positive reasons. The implications of these findings for career counselors are discussed. (RJM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC