The Chaos Theory of Careers outlines the application of chaos
theory to the field of career development. It draws together and extends
the work that the authors have been doing over the last 8 to 10 years.
This text represents a new perspective on the nature of career
development. It emphasizes the dimensions of careers frequently
neglected by contemporary accounts of careers such as the challenges and
opportunities of uncertainty, the interconnectedness of current life and
the potential for information overload, career wisdom as a response to
unplanned change, new approaches to vocational assessment based on
emergent thinking, the place of spirituality and the search for meaning
and purpose in, with and through work, the integration of being and
becoming as dimensions of career development.
It will be vital reading for all those working in and studying career
development, either at advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level and
provides a new and refreshing approach to this fast changing subject.
Key themes include:
Factors such as complexity, change, and contribution
People's aspirations in relation to work and personal fulfilment
Contemporary realities of career choice, career development and the
working world