ADAPTABLE CAREERS

Adaptable vocations: Maximizing less and discovering more

Adaptable vocations: Maximizing less and discovering more

Research on fundamental principles of decision making has provided new insights for career theory, research, and counseling, some of which we have addressed in this article. First, study on unconscious thought has shown that methods could be evolved to support document intuitive processing of vocation information and conclusion making. Second, research pertaining to causes of indecisiveness has indicated that career counselors could help their clients to focus on possible positive rather than negative outcomes of career decision making. Furthermore, idea of people's accountability for early career decisions could be emphasized less and career decisions could be considered reversible rather than permanent.

Career literatures emphasize importance of young adults' career decision making but also acknowledge problems related to making these decisions. The authors argue that career counselors could support clients' intuitive processing of career information and help their clients to develop the positive and flexible view of self and environment while diminishing concerns about accountability for and irreversibility of career decisions. The authors argue that career adaptability rather than decision making should become focal concept of career theory and practice.

Most people labor with making career conclusions, for demonstration, when they have to select between available informative, occupational, and job choices. This pressure on career decision making as reflected in daily practices together with difficulties that young people experience with making career decisions may cause them to feel insecure and unhappy.

In this article, we question need for younger people to in fact decide about their careers, given traditional definition of career concept. Using literature on decision making and cognitive processing as the basis, we argue that conscious decision making is the less optimal strategy for making career decisions than is often thought. In addition, taking the perspective on concept ...