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How other people shape our careers: A typology drawn from career narrativesNIACE (The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education), sara.bosley{at}niace.org.uk
Business School, Loughborough University, UK, j.m.arnold{at}lboro.ac.uk
Business School, Loughborough University, UK, l.cohen{at}lboro.ac.uk From a constructionist perspective, we examine how non-managerial employees make sense of the part played by other people in shaping their careers. Taking as our starting point the methodological limitations of existing research into career shapers and arguing for a perspective that starts with actors’ situated understandings, we use a life story method to develop a new typology of career shapers. Grounded in our data, we distinguish and contrast the shaper categories of adviser, informant, witness, gatekeeper and intermediary in terms of their perceived impact on individuals, including their career aspirations, career enactment, and their career world-view and career self-concept. At the level of practice, locating themselves within this framework will enable line managers, human resources staff and professional careers advisers to be explicit about the career support they can offer, and to identify other potentially valuable career shapers.
Key Words: career counselling • career development • career guidance • career management • mentoring
This version was published on October
1, 2009 Human Relations, Vol. 62, No. 10,
1487-1520 (2009) |
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