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Career Adaptability – A strategic tool or just a nice idea?
Toni Wright - Newman University
Gill Frigerio - University of Warwick
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Aims for this morning:
• Very brief reminder of Career Adapt-ability• Overview of Pilots Project• Career Adaptability in practice so far• Introducing new concepts and practices to
our services
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• Adaptive Readiness (personality traits)• Adaptability Resources (psycho-social
competencies – can be developed)• Adapting (action when required )• Adaptation as outcome
Ready, willing & able
Career Adapt-ability
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• CONCERN: developing a positive optimistic attitude to the future
• CONTROL: exerting a degree of intra-personal influence on their situations
• CURIOSITY: broadening horizons by exploring social opportunities & possibilities
• CONFIDENCE: believing in yourself & your ability to achieve your goal
Career Adapt-abilities (Savickas, 1997)
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Adaptability dimension
Attitudes and beliefs
Competence Coping behaviours
Career ‘problem’
Concern Planful Planning Aware
Involved
Preparing
Indifference
Control Decisive Decision making Assertive
Disciplined
Willful
Indecision
Curiosity Inquisitive Exploring Experimenting
Risk taking
Inquiring
Unrealism
Confidence Efficacious Problem solving Persistent
Striving
Industrious
Inhibition
Career Adaptability Dimensions (Savickas, 2013: 158)
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• Explored how Career-adaptability and the Inventory might be used in different contexts & settings
• DMU, Newman, Warwick, HECSU, Birmingham, Glasgow Caledonian
• Pilot implementations with placements, online tools, mature learners, targeting interventions, vehicle for institutional change
HEA funded pilots project
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• Timing• Conceptual understanding and perceived relevance for
students• Institutional Resources – Little additional resource,
Changes in staffing• Practitioner Resources – not enough briefing and support
given; enormous commitment, interest and enthusiasm • Professional and academic staff buy in; interest and
enthusiasm
Factors which impinged on the introduction of a new concept and practice
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From nice idea to strategic tool• Basis for dialogue between different
stakeholders• Holds the potential to bring together client
focussed perspectives and KPIs and outcomes drivers
Or• An attractive theory: challenging to integrate
with practice?