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Pryor, Robert G. L.; Bright, Jim E. H. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2022
In acknowledging the contribution of the Australian Journal of Career Development (AJCD's) continuing work to the career development field, this paper briefly outlines the Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC) and its empirical support. Issues relating to closed and open system validation are canvassed. Two types of COVID-19 case study are analysed: a…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Career Development, COVID-19, Pandemics
Pryor, Robert G. L.; Bright, Jim E. H. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2014
The developments in the Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC) are outlined for the last decade since the publication of the original formulation in this journal in 2003 (Pryor & Bright, 2003a). The history of the development of the CTC and the major theoretical constructs of the theory including context, complexity, change, chance, attractors,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Counseling Techniques, Theory Practice Relationship, Counseling Theories
Borg, Tony; Bright, Jim E. H.; Pryor, Robert G. L. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2014
A key postulate of the Chaos Theory of Careers is the significant influence of change, in general, and unplanned change, in particular, on individuals' career development. This qualitative research study investigated the perceived incident and impact of such change in the career paths of 55 high school graduates from the same class. Using a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Counseling, Counseling Theories, High School Graduates
Pryor, Robert G. L. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2010
Theory in career development counselling provides a map that counsellors can use to understand and structure the career counselling process. It also provides a means to communicate this understanding and structuring to their clients as part of the counselling intervention. The chaos theory of careers draws attention to the complexity,…
Descriptors: Careers, Systems Approach, Career Development, Career Counseling
Pryor, Robert G. L.; Bright, James E. H. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2012
Failing is a neglected topic in career development theory and counselling practice. Most theories see failing as simply the opposite of success and something to be avoided. It is contended that the Chaos Theory of Careers with its emphasis on complexity, uncertainty and consequent human imitations, provides a conceptually coherent account of…
Descriptors: Career Development, Failure, Career Counseling, Theory Practice Relationship
Bright, Jim E. H.; Pryor, Robert G. L. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2011
The Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC; Pryor & Bright, 2011) construes both individuals and the contexts in which they develop their careers in terms of complex dynamical systems. Such systems perpetually operate under influences of stability and change both internally and in relation to each other. The CTC introduces new concepts to account for…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Career Counseling, Counseling Services, Counseling Theories
Pryor, Robert G. L.; Hawkins, Trevor K. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2009
The onset of injury and disability can have a significant negative effect on individuals' social, interpersonal and vocational participation. This in turn impacts on individuals' current and future earning capacity. An objective assessment of post-injury work capacity is often sought through legal processes to determine the extent of this…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Vocational Evaluation, Injuries, Disabilities
Pryor, Robert G. L. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2007
Holistic perspectives in career development have focused attention on complexity as important for counselors using assessment techniques. Increased emphasis on subjectivity has resulted in greater focus on qualitative measures versus traditional psychometric tests. These developments reflect issues such as the idiographic-nomothetic distinction…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Career Development, Evaluation Methods, Extraversion Introversion
Bright, Jim E. H.; Pryor, Robert G. L. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2008
This paper presents the implications of the Chaos Theory of Careers for career counselling in the form of Shiftwork. Shiftwork represents an expanded paradigm of career counselling based on complexity, change and uncertainty. Eleven paradigm shifts for careers counselling are outlined to incorporate into contemporary practice pattern making, an…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Change, Prediction, Risk
Pryor, Robert G. L.; Bright, Jim E. H. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2008
This paper seeks to extend previous work on narrative career counselling by considering the role of plot within clients' narratives. Seven archetypal narratives derived from the work of Booker (2004) are introduced that represent systems of meaning to provide insight into how individuals interpret their experience. These plots can be understood…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Counseling, Personal Narratives
Pryor, Robert G. L.; Bright, Jim E. H. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
This article presents the Chaos Theory of Careers with particular reference to the concepts of "attraction" and "attractors". Attractors are defined in terms of characteristic trajectories, feedback mechanisms, end states, ordered boundedness, reality visions and equilibrium and fluctuation. The identified types of attractors (point, pendulum,…
Descriptors: Careers, Career Development, Comparative Analysis
Pryor, Robert G. L.; Amundson, Norman E.; Bright, Jim E. H. – Career Development Quarterly, 2008
The chaos theory of careers emphasizes both stability and change in its account of career development. This article outlines counseling strategies derived from this emphasis in terms of convergent or probability thinking and emergent or possibility thinking. These 2 perspectives are characterized, and practical counseling strategy implications are…
Descriptors: Careers, Probability, Career Development, Convergent Thinking
Bright, Jim E. H.; Pryor, Robert G. L.; Chan, Eva Wing Man; Rijanto, Jeniyanti – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2009
This article reports three studies on the nature and impact of chance events. The first study investigated chance events in terms of the dimensions of influence and control. The second and third studies investigated the effects of multiplicity of chance events on career development are in terms of respondents' own careers and then in terms of…
Descriptors: Career Development, Experience, Influences
Eradicating Sex Role Stereotypes: An Application of Gottfredson's Circumscription-Compromise Theory.
Pryor, Robert G. L. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1985
Initiation and outcome of a program designed to promote trade work among women is outlined and analyzed in light of occupational aspiration. Results indicate that the program increased the frequencies of women entering nontraditional trades. However, an employment slump curtailed its impact, highlighting the relevance of occupational compromise…
Descriptors: Career Development, Females, Nontraditional Occupations, Occupational Aspiration
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Pryor, Robert G. L. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1983
Used cluster analysis to investigate the influence of sex role on work preferences in 1,081 Australian high school students who completed the Work Aspect Preference Scale. Results revealed substantial similarities in the preference patterns of males and females, with differences in the Altruism and Physical Activity subscales. (JAC)
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools