![]() ![]() Planned happenstance theory then is best considered as an amendment to the learning theory of career development (Krumboltz, 1996), which was also an expansion of the social learning theory of career decision making (Krumboltz, 1979). Krumboltz and focusses upon the idea that unpredictable social factors, chance events, and environmental factors are important influences on our lives. To recap, Planned Happenstance was developed by learning & career theorist John D. It’s not that they are difficult at all just not happy with the options delivered to them via dodgy job matching software. ![]() These difficult people can be seen a lot in schools and colleges due to push toward certainty and to plump up the institution’s success stories. These are “Slowers” in the Welfare to Work sector. Interestingly the clients that are given a “career path” from any number of tools and then reject it, are branded “difficult” or just “ungrateful”. This policy is mainly in place to help the advisor believe that they had defined and planned it that way for the client. These are the “Goers” as they were affectionately known in the Welfare to Work sector. In fact, the careers advisor generally prefer clients who seem to be heading in a definite direction or “on the right track”. The traditional plan and implement approach of matching individual qualifications, interests, skills, abilities and knowledge is seen as a way to reduce the role of chance and ambiguity. Of course, many careers advisors and coaches are sometimes reluctant to admit that their own career choices were not always the result of a definite career plan. We feel that change is afoot though not sure if its part of the grand plan or a well-formed persecution complex. We can then cling to the careers self-help book section in Waterstones for reassurance that we are on the right track. ![]() Then we start looking for a new job in a fit of disgruntled peek that it wasn’t us moving on. Perhaps you might just have missed that promotion or that new job by coming in a close second. There are moments in our working lives when we feel things just don’t “ fit” and not enjoying work. Underneath the surface, of course, there is frantic action going on just to keep us moving forward. Appearances promote the impression that every twist and turn in our working life is planned. Swimming Upstream?Ĭareer planning can appear like a duck swimming on a pond, on the surface, all is serene progress. To carry on the development of the theory and how it can ease the stress and strain of career planning. However, hands up anyone who has had this type of experience? Hands up anyone where the career hasn’t quite panned out the way you had planned? Don’t worry you are not alone, as the theory of Planned Happenstance kind of predicts this career chaos and anxiety.įollowing on from my article “Weird Careers and Planned Happenstance Theory” it may well be a good point for a revisit this interesting theory and practice. Questions questions.Īll right enough of the questions I hear you cry. We study for a degree or gain the qualifications to head off into the sunset the finished article. Perhaps the markers of earning a certain amount of money, the right car badge in the driveway or the right job title? Most of us leave school or university with words of a career advisor ringing in our ears about possible jobs and careers paths. Many of us have our careers mapped out and know (or rather believe we know) what it will look like both now, as in a few years time.Įach new job or step up the promotion ladder will take us one step closer to career Valhalla. It may be your calling, vocation or a right of passage perhaps. A bright golden future off in the distance. Some of us like to think we have a clear career path in our minds. ![]()
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