SHAPE OF CAREER CARDS
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN YOUR HANDS
Images: Chris Chapman Visuals
Are you:
Someone who works in careers education, information, advice, and guidance (CEIAG) in Scotland?
A careers advisor, career leader, careers educator, employability professional, teacher, or lecturer?
Do you offer career guidance or coaching to:
Students in school who want to know more about what their future could hold?
Adult career changers who want to understand their possibilities?
People facing redundancy who are considering next steps?
People who are moving from paid work to other career activities as they retire?
Buy your Shape of Career Cards* Scotland for £28 + £5 P&P**
*in ordering you are agreeing to the terms and conditions
**please add your shipping address in PayPal
£5 P&P for up to 3 packs of cards
Delivery outside of UK is £15 per pack
HOW CAN SHAPE OF CAREER CARDS HELP?
Would you like:
A way to help your clients understand the ways they can work, learn, and explore their career ideas?
A means to communicate the diverse activities that can form part of their career?
To give your clients the chance to hold opportunities in their hands and consider what might suit them?
A way to build opportunity awareness using a simple, hands-on resource?
The pack includes ways that clients can:
Work (paid and unpaid forms)
Learn and develop (through and outside work)
Explore their career ideas
Test and create opportunities
Each printed pack comes with 58 cards, 5 divider cards, a downloadable supporting guide and suggested activities to help you get started.
Shape of Career can help our clients to:
Consider the broad definition of career as a ‘“journey through life, learning and work”
Learn about traditional, new, and emerging models of career (based on those currently available in Scotland)
Identify the range of ways in which they currently or could use their time and energy within their career, drawing on the Expanded Notion of Work (ENOW)
Articulate the shape of their career now and how they’d like it to look in future
Buy your Shape of Career Cards* Scotland for £28 + £5 P&P**
*in ordering you are agreeing to the terms and conditions
**please add your shipping address in PayPal
£5 P&P for up to 3 packs of cards
Delivery outside of UK is £15 per pack
WHAT ARE THESE CARDS FOR?
We all have careers. But they don’t all look the same. They are different shapes and sizes. We spend our time and energy in different ways and on different pursuits.
What’s more – our careers don’t stay the same. Day to day, week to week, year to year the shape of our career can flex and evolve as we move forward through life. The roles we undertake, the models of work we are involved in, and the types of ways we learn and develop – these are all subject to change.
It can be overwhelming for clients to grasp the wide range of ways they can work, learn, and explore their career ideas.
It can be overwhelming for careers professionals too. Websites are great, but there are so many available and it can be difficult to share and provide an overview of the career opportunities available, especially in a time-bound personal guidance session.
This is why I created the Shape of Career cards. I wanted clients to be able to hold their opportunities in their hands. The opportunities they know about, but also ones they haven’t yet considered or even heard of.
SHAPE OF CAREER CARDS CATEGORIES
Buy your Shape of Career Cards* Scotland for £28 + £5 P&P**
*in ordering you are agreeing to the terms and conditions
**please add your shipping address in PayPal
£5 P&P for up to 3 packs of cards
Delivery outside of UK is £15 per pack
WHO ARE THESE CARDS FOR?
The pack is designed for anyone working in careers education, information, advice, and guidance (CEIAG) in Scotland (including careers advisors, careers leaders, career coaches, career educators, employability workers, teachers, and lecturers), within schools, sixth forms, colleges, universities, private coaching, prisons, and community settings
Shape of Career cards can be used with a wide range of clients, including adult career changers and students considering next steps.
The cards can be used on a one-to-one or group basis, including for:
Personal career guidance (all ages and contexts)
Group-based careers education sessions (all ages and contexts)
PSHE and citizenship lessons (within schools)
Supporting use of modern career theory:
• Planned Happenstance (Krumboltz, Levin, & Mitchell, 1976)
• Life Design (Narrative) (Savickas, 2015)
• Savickas et al.’s (2009) life design framework
• Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC) (Bright & Pryor, 2011)
• Careership (Hodkinson, Sparkes, & Hodkinson, 1996)
See full references below.
Each printed pack comes with 58 cards, 5 divider cards, a downloadable supporting guide and suggested activities to help you get started.
Buy your Shape of Career Cards* Scotland for £28 + £5 P&P**
*in ordering you are agreeing to the terms and conditions
**please add your shipping address in PayPal
£5 P&P for up to 3 packs of cards
Delivery outside of UK is £15 per pack
References
Bright, J. E., & Pryor, R. G. (2011). The chaos theory of careers: A user’s guide. Career Development Quarterly, 59(3), 232-243.
Hodkinson, P., Sparkes, A. C., & Hodkinson, H. (1996). Triumphs and tears: Young people, markets and the transition from school to work. Open University Press.
Krumboltz, J. D., Levin, A. S., & Mitchell, K. M. (1976). A planned happenstance approach to career decision making. Journal of vocational behavior, 9(1), 47-55.
Savickas, M. L. (2015). Career construction theory and practice. In B. Walsh, & M. Savickas (Eds.), Handbook of Vocational Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice (4th ed., pp. 147-183). Routledge.
Savickas, M. L., Nota, L., Rossier, J., Dauwalder, J. P., Duarte, M. E., Guichard, J., … & Van Vianen, A. E. (2009). Life designing: A paradigm for career construction in the 21st century. Journal of vocational behavior, 75(3), 239-250.
