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Story telling: crafting identities.

Mary McMahon1, Mark Watson

  • 1School of Education, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

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Narrative career counseling helps clients build new career identities. This storytelling approach offers culturally sensitive methods for identity construction in career guidance.

Keywords:
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  • Career Development
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Clients often seek new career identities for better professional positioning.
  • Traditional career guidance may not fully address identity construction needs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the contribution of narrative career counselling to client experience.
  • To demonstrate how identity can be crafted using narrative approaches.

Main Methods:

  • Focus on narrative career counselling.
  • Utilizing a storytelling approach as a practical example.

Main Results:

  • Narrative career counselling can provide meaningful experiences for clients.
  • Identity crafting can be achieved through contextually and culturally sensitive storytelling.

Conclusions:

  • Narrative career counselling offers a valuable framework for career identity development.
  • The storytelling method is effective for culturally sensitive identity construction in career guidance.