Advising on career image: perspectives, practice and politics
Journal article
Authors | Yates, Julia and Hooley, Tristram |
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Abstract | This article analyses qualitative data gathered from a survey of career practitioners on the issue of career image (n = 355, 75% female, 89% white and 78% from the UK). Findings reveal three key themes which represent how career image relates to practitioners’ values and beliefs, how practitioners make decisions about whether to address the topic in their practice and the strategies they use to address career image with their clients. Findings are discussed with reference to Watts’s socio-political ideologies of guidance. The data indicate that career practitioners are often uncomfortable about discussing career image, but address it where they believe that it is important to their clients’ success. While some practitioners believe the existing structures to be unjust, they generally seek to address this injustice at the individual level rather than seeking any kind of social transformation. |
Keywords | Career guidance; Appearance; Attractiveness; Career image |
Year | 2017 |
Journal | British Journal of Guidance & Counselling |
Journal citation | 46 (1), pp. 1-19 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 0306-9885 |
1469-3534 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2017.1286635 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03069885.2017.1286635 |
hdl:10545/621546 | |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | 17 Feb 2017 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 13 Apr 2017, 10:57 |
Accepted | 22 Jan 2017 |
Rights | Archived with thanks to British Journal of Guidance & Counselling |
Contributors | University of East London and University of Derby |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/92x59/advising-on-career-image-perspectives-practice-and-politics
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