Hofstede's cultural dimensions

Culture is a shared societal system of values and norms, which - when taken together - are a "design for living" (Rao, 2008, p. 30...

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The Aotearoa national career strategy

Many other nations are ahead of New Zealand in having a national career strategy: Europe, the UK, and Australia, for example (Rose & Jar...

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Cultural humility

In New Zealand we have a  bicultural  society, which does not mean what biculturalism traditionally means; instead here it refers to the two...

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A critique of MBTI

Career assessments are part of a holistic career counselling process. Assessments have a role as a starting point for clients to “identify, ...

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Safe cross-cultural practice

When working with a client, it may become apparent that the client is lacking some self-knowledge to assist with exploring their career opti...

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Culture-Infused Career Counselling

A person’s culture is determined by a combination of some or all of "ethnicity, gender, religion, ability, sexual orientation, age, and...

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Cultural Appropriateness in Aotearoa

New Zealand is a nation of broad diversity both culturally and ethnically. According to Halbert (2020) culture is a multifaceted system that...

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Not slipping up with testing

Collectively, our clients have a wide range of worldviews, experiences, values, and expectations due to their cultural and social context. A...

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Cultural identity in career practice

As practitioners, it is immensely helpful in our career practice to consider our client’s cultural identification. However, it is important ...

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What does culture mean in career practice?

We often tend to 'decide' a person's culture by their appearance, so pigeon-holing them as a particular culture: a 'sorting ...

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Culturally appropriate assessment considerations

Ah: culture. This is the “customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group” (Merriam-Webster Dic...

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A culturally appropriate career model

Much of the career practice research is based on the societally dominant ethno-cultural groups such as white, Anglo-Saxon men (Leong & M...

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