Prelims

Careers: Thinking, Strategising and Prototyping

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Brewer, A.M. (2020), "Prelims", Careers: Thinking, Strategising and Prototyping (The Future of Work), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xvi. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-207-220191001

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CAREERS

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THE FUTURE OF WORK

The future of work is a vital contemporary area of debate both in business and management research, and in wider social, political and economic discourse. Globally relevant issues, including the ageing workforce, rise of the gig economy, workplace automation and changing forms of business ownership, are all regularly the subject of discussion in both academic research and the mainstream media, having wider professional and public policy implications.

The Future of Work series features books examining key issues or challenges in the modern workplace, synthesising prior developments in critical thinking, alongside current practical challenges in order to interrogate possible future developments in the world of work.

Offering future research agendas and suggesting practical outcomes for today’s and tomorrow’s businesses and workforce, the books in this series a present powerful, challenging and polemical analysis of a diverse range of subjects in their potential to address future challenges and possible new trajectories.

The series highlights what changes still need to be made to core areas of business practice and theory in order for them to be forward facing, more representative and able to fulfil the industrial challenges of the future.

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CAREERS: THINKING, STRATEGISING AND PROTOTYPING

ANN M. BREWER

University of Newcastle, Australia

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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To my son, remembering the places we went …

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Navigating and nurturing a career is one of the most critical personal and organisational challenges of our time. Here Professor Brewer tackles the issues with insight, intellect and integrity recognising the evolving context of work, skills and fulfilment. Careers provides valuable tools and frameworks for the workforce planner, policy maker and business leader. Significantly, it highlights the imperative for a human centric approach, drawing a distinct and positive parallel between successful career making and city shaping.

Katherine O’Regan, Executive Director, Sydney Business Chamber

List of Figures and Tables		xv
PART I: THINKING CAREERS
1.	What is a Career in the 21st Century?	3
	Introduction	3
	Career Stakeholders	5
	Careers and Work	6
	Career Perspectives, Context and Structures	7
	Themes in Career Thinking	10
	The Changing Workforce	12
	Work, Working and Workplaces	14
	The Internet of Things	15
	Globalisation	16
	Access to Work	16
	The Sociology of Careers	17
	Boundaryless Knowledge	18
	Innovation and Careers	20
	Career Attributes	21
	Is the Notion of Career on its Way Out?	26
	Solutionism – A Quick Fix	27
	Education – The Problem or Solution?	29
	The Way Forward	32
	Uncertainty or Certainty: Opportunity or Constraint?	34
	Outline of this Book	35
	References	37
2.	Career Thinking Competence	45
	Introduction	45
	Turning Point	46
	Career Mindfulness	48
	Reflective Thinking	49
	Cultural and Emotional Intelligence	50
	Emotional Stamina	51
	Career Purpose	53
	Exploration	53
	Career Ambition	55
	Career Success	58
	Career Failure	59
	Types of Failure	62
	Motivation to Learn through Experienced Failure	63
	Career Thinking Perspectives	66
	Developing Reflective Practice for Career Thinking	66
	Action-orientated and Guided Learning	72
	Time	73
	Autonomy	73
	Coping Strategies	73
	Emotional Response	74
	Positive Learning Relationships	74
	Creative Self	75
	360 Degree Thinking	75
	Thinking In-Contradiction	76
	Control in Choice Making about Careers	78
	Personal Disruption: Readiness to Overcome Career Adversity	78
	Interpersonal Aspects of Careers	79
	Social Skills	80
	Building Trust: A Key to Collaboration	80
	Empathy	81
	Producing Outcomes	83
	Well-being and Career Change	83
	Tacit Knowledge	84
	Conclusion	86
	References	87
PART II: STRATEGISING CAREERS
3.	Career Strategising	101
	Introduction	101
	Career Choice, Transition and Design	102
	Creating Choices or Designing Choices	103
	Decision Making	103
	Career Problem Solving	107
	Career Decision Making	108
	Why Strategise a Career?	109
	Questioning	111
	Metaphors	111
	Information Processing	114
	Understanding and Knowledge	115
	Metaphors in Use	115
	Imagination	116
	Knowledge and Imagination	118
	Scenario Designing	119
	Conclusion	122
	References	124
4.	Design Thinking a Career	131
	Introduction	131
	Career Designers	133
	Design Thinking for Career Development	134
	Human-centric Learning	135
	Applying Design Thinking to Learning: Definition and Principles	136
	Design Learning in Practice	136
	New Career Horizons	138
	People-centred Career Design	139
	Collaborative Career Design	140
	Design Thinking Career – Process	141
	Exercise: What is ‘Your Story’?	141
	Exercise for the Career Specialist	143
	Phases of the Career Design Process	145
	Brainstorming	145
	Smart Choices	148
	Career Mindset	149
	Nudging Flexible Thinking	151
	Guided Reflection	151
	Action-orientated Learning	154
	Double-loop Learning	156
	Mapping a Career Journey for a Person	157
	Phase I	157
	Phase 2	158
	Conclusion	162
	References	162
PART III: PROTOTYPING CAREERS
5.	Career Prototyping: Designing Career through a Self-narrative	171
	Introduction	171
	Envisioning an Ideal Career through Prototyping	173
	Career Discovery	175
	Progressing the Career Prototype: What Should a Career be?	176
	Identifying Career Gaps in the Market – What is Missing in the Career Market Place Today?	178
	Innovating – What Would a Career Look Like If Participants	178
	Translating Ideas Into Outcomes	179
	Divergent and Convergent Thinking	179
	Learning Theory and Collaborative Career Building	180
	Career Coaching Exercise	181
	Developing a Career Clinic for Career Prototyping	182
	Prototyping Workshop	183
	A Career Opus Framework	183
	Career Opus Defined	183
	Career Vision	184
	Personal Career Values	186
	Value Propositions for Career People and Designers	187
	Collaborative and Individual Career Co-designing	188
	Occupational Analysis – Career Skills, Knowledge and Attributes	190
	Exploring a Personal Profile: Career Strengths and Skills Continuities	190
	Career Strengths and Skill Gaps	190
	Outcomes of the Prototyping Process	194
	Career Specialists Shape Careers	196
	Networking Relationships for Building Careers	197
	Communication Processes	197
	Project and Substance	198
	Consequences and Influences	199
	Resources	199
	Limitations	200
	Activities	201
	Post-prototype Career Design	202
	Conclusion	203
	References	203
6.	Careers and Corporate Social Responsibility: Questions and a Concluding Note	207
	Introduction	207
	Defining CSR in an Era of Corporate Disruption	209
	Corporate Social Responsibility	211
	Corporate Career Citizenship	213
	A Career-focussed Enterprise	214
	Career Value Chain Management	215
	A Career Strategy	215
	Organisational Learning and the Development of Design Thinking	217
	The Development of Shared Career Knowledge	217
	Career-focussed Organisational Culture	219
	Conclusion	221
	References	221
Index		227

List of Figures and Tables

Chapter 1
Fig. 1	Career Stakeholders.	5
Fig. 2	Capability Continuum in a Period of Career Disruption.	30
Table 1	Work Design Criteria.	22
Chapter 2
Fig. 1	Career Thinking Frames.	68
Fig. 2	A Model of the Empathy Process.	82
Chapter 3
Fig. 1	Career Strategising.	116
Fig. 2	Designing Scenarios.	122
Chapter 4
Fig. 1	Human-centred Co-creation.	135
Fig. 2	A Capability Pathway.	139
Fig. 3a and b.	Structuring Career Guidance.	144
Fig. 4	Guided Reflection.	153
Fig. 5	Single-loop and Double-loop Learning Framework.	157
Table 1	Conventional Career Planning with a Design Thinking Approach.	134
Table 2	Phases of the Career Design Process – Macro.	146
Table 3	Phases of the Career Design Process – Micro.	146
Table 4	Qualities of Mindsets.	150
Table 5	Driving Forces and Inhibitors of Change.	159
Table 6	Properties of Persistent Interests.	160
Chapter 5
Fig. 1	Career Discovery through Prototyping.	175
Fig. 2	An Example of Working towards a Career Pre-prototype.	195
Fig. 3	An Example of Working towards a Career Prototype.	196
Table 1	Career Prototypes.	191
Table 2	Career Project Report.	192
Table 3	Storyline Prompts.	194

Book Chapters

Prelims

Part I: Thinking Careers

1. What is a Career in the 21st Century?

2. Career Thinking Competence

Part II: Strategising Careers

3. Career Strategising

4. Design Thinking a Career

Part III: Prototyping Careers

5. Career Prototyping: Designing Career Through a Self-Narrative

6. Careers and Corporate Social Responsibility: Questions and a Concluding Note

Index