The Gartner Hype Cycle

Have you heard of the Gartner Hype Cycle? This model "describes the typical progression of the infiltration of new technologies into so...

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Legal profession stages and barriers

Over time, our occupational preferences and competencies, along with our life situations, evolve (Super, 1980). The theory of career stages...

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Staging a national careers strategy

Career practice in Aotearoa began early in the 20th century, grounded in trait and factor theory (Furbish, 2012, citing Winterbourne, 1974)....

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Are career stages still relevant?

While the notion of predictable career “stages” such as those proposed by Super (1957) and Levinson (1978) is somewhat outdated today due t...

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Flying high with Super

When considering how we move through our lives and careers, Super's life stage model has resonated with many of us. The phases as we dev...

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Levinson's stages and success

Stage-based understandings of careers are strong in Aotearoa. Education stages are laid out in the New Zealand Qualifications Framework, enc...

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Savickas's mini cycles

Considering the Super approach to career stage, most of us become more concrete as we grow the 'normal' life stages of "growth,...

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Getting on the property ladder

Recently I read an article in the Guardian about how young people are finding it difficult to get into houses. Aside from the fact that th...

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The more things change...

(Careers New Zealand, n.d.) That old adage, the more things change, the more they stay the same , was brought to mind recently when ...

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Les Pickett, the CE of the Pacific Rim Consulting Group, posted on a LinkedIn group I participate in recently, an interesting response to a ...

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