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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.Citation
Yates, J. and Hooley, T. (2017). Advising on career image: perspectives, practice and politics. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2017.1286635Publisher
Taylor and FrancisJournal
British Journal of Guidance & CounsellingDOI
10.1080/03069885.2017.1286635Additional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03069885.2017.1286635http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/16831/
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0306-98851469-3534
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10.1080/03069885.2017.1286635