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Michael B Arthur Emeritus Professor, Suffolk University, Boston, USA Visiting Professor, Cranfield University, UK Director, Intelligent Careers Group CDANZ Symposium, Auckland, October 31, 2017

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Congratulations on your new leader!

Taking Taking Taking Taking Aspiration and Aspiration and Aspiration and Aspiration and Possibility into Possibility into Possibility into Possibility into Career Career Career Career Practice Practice Practice Practice

Congratulations on your new leader! But what about my new leader?

Taking Taking Taking Taking Aspiration and Aspiration and Aspiration and Aspiration and Possibility into Possibility into Possibility into Possibility into Career Career Career Career Practice Practice Practice Practice

Our President, Donald the Trump, Thought New Zealand a bit of a dump. When he called up Jacinda - On land-line, not Tinder - But she just sighed and thought, "What a chump!“ Kerr Inkson, October 30, 2017

What about me? What about me? What about me? What about me?

• 1986: lucky protégé
• 1996: guest of University of Auckland
• 2006: recognized for lifelong service
• 2016: An Intelligent Career book

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Interdependent over the course of a career?

Taking Taking Taking Taking Aspiration and Aspiration and Aspiration and Aspiration and Possibility into Possibility into Possibility into Possibility into Career Career Career Career Practice Practice Practice Practice

• 1. How do we make clients

aware of options we may know little about ourselves?

• 2. How do we empower
• urselves and our clients to be

curious and courageous?

• 3. How do we fight for safe, fair,

equitable work opportunities and work places?

What are we What are we What are we What are we talking about? talking about? talking about? talking about?

• Career: The evolving sequence of a person’s

work experiences over time (Arthur, Hall & Lawrence, 1989

• Boundaryless career: A sequence of work

experiences that goes beyond the boundaries of any single employment setting (DeFillippi & Arthur, 1994)

• Intelligent career: A career where an individual

takes ownership of their work and their life (Arthur, Khapova & Richardson, 2017)

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• The aspiring Australian teacher
• The French music marketer
• The American pancake house waitress
• The Finnish journalist
• The Zambian shepherd

The aspiring Australian teacher

Sarah Robinson

• Reggio Emelia method
• “Most likely to succeed”
• Vocational commitment
• Enthusiastic beginning
• Political resistance
• Soon left the profession

The aspiring Australian teacher

Sarah Robinson

• The context behind the job
• The politics on the job
• Aspiration versus opportunity?
• Partial empowerment
• Life’s not fair!

The French music marketer

• Entry-level advertising position
• Industry change – vinyl to cloud storage
• New ideas, skillful upward

communication

• New projects, new contacts
• New learning
• More new ideas

Jean-Luc Brès

The French Music Marketer

• Three-year projects
• “It’s like cycling”
• “No set career plan!”
• Option-seeking?
• Empowering himself?

Jean-Luc Brès

The American pancake house waitress

Barbara Harris

• Mixed-race family
• Foster-parenting interests
• Drug-addicted newborns
• Campaign for birth control
• Pay the parents!
• “Project Prevention”

The American pancake house waitress

Barbara Harris

• Sensemaking!
• From: waitress, parent, willing foster-

parent

• To: public speaker, “Project

Prevention” champion, international

• utreach and facing the opposition.
• Curiosity and courage

The Finnish journalist

Marge Lahtinen

• Journalist in downsizing newspaper
• “Fighting for work!”
• Took a break overseas
• Returned to set out on her own
• Dependable writer, short-term

projects

The Finnish Journalist

Marge Lahtinen

• More sensemaking
• Also re-branding
• Self-described “media

entrepreneur”

• Contract work as possibility!
• Safety? Fairness?

The Zambian shepherd

Photo courtesy of Andy Aitchison

• Family farm shepherd
• Public school student
• Getting through the gates
• Health technologist appointment
• Meeting, talking with NGO workers
• Apparently futile grant applications

Moses Zulu

The Zambian shepherd

Moses Zulu

Photo courtesy of Andy Aitchison

• First considerate response – after 50

rejections

• Firelight Foundation, CA, seed money
• Leading to
• US Govt. New Partnership initiative
• Primary provider, HIV support, Luapula

Provice, Zambia (1 million people)

• Aspiration, possibility writ large!

What can we What can we What can we What can we learn so far? learn so far? learn so far? learn so far?

• Change is fundamental
• Career ownership is critical
• Career developers can support career ownership
• Capture the narrative!

Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach

Why you work:

Identity and motivation

How you work:

Skills, knowledge and learning

With whom you work:

Relationships and reputation

Vocational guidance

Why you work:

Identity and motivation

How you work:

Knowledge and learning

With whom you work:

Relationships and reputation

Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach

Vocational guidance Job design

Why you work:

Identity and motivation

How you work:

Knowledge and learning

With whom you work:

Relationships and reputation

Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach

Vocational guidance The party exercise Job design

Why you work:

Identity and motivation

How you work:

Knowledge and learning

With whom you work:

Relationships and reputation

Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach

Vocational guidance The party exercise Job design

Why you work:

Identity and motivation

How you work:

Knowledge and learning

With whom you work:

Relationships and reputation

Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach

Reference groups

Vocational guidance The party exercise Job design Reference groups Leadership

Why you work:

Identity and motivation

How you work:

Knowledge and learning

With whom you work:

Relationships and reputation

Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach

Vocational guidance The party exercise Job design Reference groups Group dynamics Leadership

Why you work:

Identity and motivation

How you work:

Knowledge and learning

With whom you work:

Relationships and reputation

Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! Capture the narrative! An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach An intelligent career approach

• Psychological testing a point of departure
• Identities develop!
• Don’t worry about what you don’t know!
• Take the time the client needs!
• Bring aspiration and possibility together!

What else can What else can What else can What else can we learn? we learn? we learn? we learn?

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Aspiration Possibility

Can we talk?

Knowing little Empowerment Curiosity Courage Safety Fairness Fighting

Thank you!

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