Change, ambiguity and shifting relationships are recurrent themes in contemporary career development. In turn, personal success in the unfolding knowledge economy calls for self-awareness, adaptability and the ability to work with others. A challenge in career coaching is to help people better develop these kinds of skills, and in turn to help…

An "intelligent careers" framework (knowing why, knowing how, knowing whom) combined with active engagement practices can integrate occupational and organizational career counseling. The Intelligent Career Card Sort is a technique in which clients select themes reflecting their values in the three parts of the framework. (Contains 37 references.)…

A review of career-related research in New Zealand, especially that conducted in business schools, found these predominant themes: destabilization of careers, critiques of the "new careers" concept, international mobility, boundaryless and portfolio careers, dominance of qualitative methodology, and a need for career practice research. (Contains…