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Living An Unexpected Life: Practical Tools For Working With Clients
Of All Ages Experiencing Change, Chance And Transition In A Changing
Economic Landscape
Professor Jim Bright Bright and Associates
[email protected] @DrJimBright
The Fantasy And
The Reality
Billy Wilder / Jack Lemmon The ApartmentMarx Brothers A Night at the Opera
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A BUTTERFLY FLAPPING ITS WINGS CAN BE ENOUGH TO TURN YOUR WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
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The Chaos Theory Of Careers
CHAOS THEORY OF CAREERS AND SHIFT
Modern Career Paths involve:
Change
Complexity
Chance
Uncertainty
(e.g. Pryor & Bright, 2003ab, 2007, Bright & Pryor, 2005, 2007, 2011)
21ST CENTURY CHALLENGE: THE NEED TO BALANCE ORDER AND
CHANGE
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CONCEPTS TO PRIVILEGE & PRIORITISE & INTERVENTION STRATEGIES
Change Perception
Opportunity Awareness (Luck Readiness - Flexibility, Curiosity, Optimism, Self-Efficacy, Strategy, Luckiness, Risk, Persistence)
Adaptability
Planmanship
Creativity
Slow Shift, Fast Shift, Deep Shift
Canadians 26% (n=2000)Australians 15% (n=932)
School Leaders 20% (n=70)Agree
Self-Efficacy
Canadians 32%Australians 28%
School Leaders 21%agree
Flexibility
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Canadians 73% Australians 69%
School Leaders 76% agree
Risk
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Canadians 28%Australians 19%
School leaders 3%agree
Optim
ism
Curio
sity
Curiosity and an Electric Fence
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Canadians 30%Australians 28%
School leaders 3%agree
Persistence
AUSSIE PERSISTENCE?
Canadians 67%Australians 60%
School Leaders 66%agree
Strategy
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Evidence Of Outcomes To Assist And Improve Practice
The Outcome Of Insane Parents Is Either A Murderer Or An Intellectual. M.F. Moonzajer, Love, Hatred And Madness
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Effect of showing videos of chaos in graduate lives to undergraduatesDavey, R., Bright, J.E.H., Pryor, R.G.L. & Levin, K. (2005).
CHAOS COUNSELLING INCREASES SELF-EFFICACY THE MOST OVER 1 MONTH
MCKAY, BRIGHT & PRYOR (2005)Chaos Traditional Control
CHAOS TRAINING LEADS TO GREATER
CONFIDENCE IN ACCESSING
OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION
(CDSE)
Chaos Trait-Factor
Tony Borg, PhD research
n=35 n=33
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CHAOS TRAINING LEADS
TO GREATERCONFIDENCE IN SELF APPRAISAL
(CDSE)
CHAOS TRAIT FACTOR
Tony Borg, PhD research
n=35 n=33
IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS I SOUGHT
INFORMATION ON SPECIFIC
AREAS OF CAREER
INTEREST
CHAOS TRAIT FACTOR
Tony Borg, PhD research
n=35 n=33
Chaos 20%
Trait 2%
LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF HIGH SCHOOL LEAVERS FROM HUNTER VALLEY SCHOOL
BORG, BRIGHT & PRYOR (2014)
18 months after leaving school:
50% of students attending university experienced changes to their degree
33% students changing degree entirely
17% changing major
71% of respondents reported unexpected change since Year 12 that was significant, large or major,
53% of respondents changed career interest
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You've Got To Be Very Careful If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, Because You Might Not Get There.
Yogi Berra
The End
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